Bassman and the others were here to focus on different ways to reduce the accumulated vegetation in a landscape, through prescribed fire, for example, or mechanical thinning.
This suggests further studies need to be conducted to reduce the uncertainties in the vegetation and land surface temperature input data in order to more accurately assess the effects of the transport exchange processes of this Mediterranean landscape on TSEB formulations.
Regardless of how large the wave and tidal bed shear stresses are in the adjacent bays and creeks, interactions between the flow and marsh vegetation reduce the velocities and turbulence in the flooding flows within a short distance of entering the vegetation (Leonard and Luther 1995; Christiansen et al. 2000), creating conditions favorable for deposition of the sediment in suspension.
Although the diet of the grass carp is limited to some species of aquatic plants, scientists fear that they could greatly reduce the supply of aquatic vegetation.
There will be time later to assess whether more should be done in future years to reduce the volume of combustible vegetation in the forests before they can be ignited.
They had been brought in to reduce the thicket of undesirable vegetation in what has become a preferred fire-control method here since the devastating Oakland-Berkeley fire of 1991.
The low rainfall of that season is expected to reduce the water availability for vegetation.
From the management point of view, better policy to reduce the C emission through vegetation should be formulated as per the objective of REDD+.
Recent progress in low-altitude UAV photogrammetry could also provide precise terrain models to reduce the effect of heterogeneous vegetation cover [66], as the lack of adequate ground points can also lead to significantly underestimating urban tree dimensions [67].
Forest restoration intended to reduce the overabundance of dense vegetation can be at odds with wildlife habitat conservation, particularly for species of wildlife that are strongly associated with structurally diverse forests with dense canopies.
The occurrence of fires at intervals of 1 to 3 years is now common in many areas [5], [6]; such short fire-return intervals reduce the density of woody vegetation, especially through mortality of young individuals and the more fire-sensitive (forest-adapted) species [2], [7].
