Sentence examples for overgrazing of from inspiring English sources

Particularly in 17th- and 18th-century England and Scotland, the concept described villagers' overgrazing of their herds on the village commons, thereby destroying it as pasture.

Britain's native woodland faces multiple threats: invasive species including conifer and rhododendron; pollution, particularly acid rain; overgrazing of livestock; encroaching development.

The Chambal River valley has areas of severe gullying and erosion aggravated by deforestation and overgrazing of the land; its ravines are said to be used as hideouts by bandits.

Overgrazing of the vegetation reduces the production of forage; exposes the soil to sealing, baking, and erosion; reduces the infiltration of water into the soil; increases water runoff and flooding; and induces unfavourable changes in the botanical composition of the vegetation.

For example, deer proliferation after the disappearance of puma could lead to overgrazing of vegetation that, in turn, could trigger a mass starvation of deer.

A proposed hypothesis for these fluctuations involves the overgrazing of vegetation on herd summer ranges at high herd densities resulting in a reduction in available forage.

As a result of overgrazing, the clearing of trees and natural vegetation, and farming practices causing erosion, more than three-fourths of the soils in New South Wales suffer from degradation and gullying.

They were brought in to manage the rising elk population, which had been overgrazing much of the park, but their effect went far beyond that.

"Its future is in jeopardy as a result of catastrophic wildfires, a long history of overgrazing, air pollution and the impact of people.

Other threats include: intensification of land use (land reclamation, using of pesticides, overgrazing by sheep, removing of shrubs, building gardens, burning, and building roads and highways), tourism, general development pressure, coniferous forest plantations, the spread of invasive species of plants such as Rhododendron ponticum and habitat fragmentation (see also Moorkens 2006).

Due to exposure of the surface by overgrazing and patches of bareland, the erosion process has influenced the lateral carbon fluxes in each land use [7, 69, 70].