Sentence examples for patch of wetlands from inspiring English sources

Between them is a patch of wetlands just north of Los Angeles airport and a row that has led to pickets and protests, arguments about the place of the architect in society and the future of rare frog species.

Costa Rica has won a lingering, bitter territorial row with Nicaragua after a top UN court ruled that it had sovereignty over a small patch of wetlands on the river San Juan.

It's now like a patch of wetland, back to what it was before Stratford was Stratford.

Built on a patch of wetland, the camp is nestled between a residential area and the A16 motorway that connects Dunkirk to the port city of Calais.

Pier 6, the furthest to the left, will be covered by patches of wetlands and lawn and volleyball courts.

To prevent incursions by water, Mr. Cassell and his planners imagined ringing Lower Manhattan with a grassy network of land-based parks accompanied by watery patches of wetlands and tidal salt marshes.

In southeast Louisiana, well-intentioned but environmentally destructive flood control strategies and the dredging of canals for oil drilling have led to the continued loss of football-field sized patches of wetlands every hour.

"Farmsteads with groves of trees, patches of wetland and well-planted river banks have been eliminated.

At a few locales which may be ice-wedge polygonal grounds, glacial terrain and zones of recent coastal uplift, wetland occurrence can become extensive, forming a mosaic that comprises patches of different wetland types.

Following variable reduction procedures, five habitat variables (percentage of grassland patches, interspersion juxtaposition of forest patches, mean fractal dimension of wetland patches and the landscape, and road density) were used for analysis.

Moreover, the temporal distribution of the farmland showed that the wetlands evolution following the degeneration mode: first, the wetlands are reclaimed into many patches; secondly, small pieces of farmland become a big one and the number of wetlands patches decreases; finally, the wetlands turn into other kinds of landscape.