Sentence examples for reducing edge effects from inspiring English sources
The diameter of the sensors (about 4 mm) meant that flow velocity could be measured with minimal disturbance of the mulch, thereby reducing edge effects that can affect the water flow.
Recent expansion of industrial-scale plantations into agricultural areas in Australia has the potential to assist biodiversity conservation by rehabilitating ecosystems at the landscape scale and reducing edge effects, isolation and disturbance within remnants of native vegetation.
Border rows of a local provenance were used to reduce edge effects.
Many of these fragments, which are often embedded within large private landholdings including biofuel and citrus or coffee crops, cattle ranches and pulpwood plantations, could be used not only to comply with environmental legislation, but also enhance the prospects for biodiversity conservation, and reduce edge effects and hunting.
The containers were randomly moved periodically to reduce edge effects.
In order to reduce edge effects, a larger RTM computational area than study region is need; the derived DTM is shown in Fig. 2a.
However, the performance statistics are collected only over the central core of building blocks (6 BSs), so as to reduce edge effects.
To that end, it is essential to create buffer zones around the forest remnants and connect them with wide forest corridors to reduce edge effects.
The simulation output showed that corridors had been transformed to primary habitat (with reduced edge effects [38]) and this affected K more strongly than the decreased ability to disperse.
We placed the modules such that they were in contact with as many other modules as possible (up to eight) to reduce edge effects, but we also allowed for walkways between blocks for access.
All such extrapolations are illustrative: in reality, deviations from perfectly circular culling areas would increase edge effects and reduce overall benefits, while positioning of culling areas close to cattle-free areas or geographic barriers to badger movement might potentially reduce edge effects and increase net benefits [10].
