Sentence examples for reducing encroachment from inspiring English sources

However, when using herbicide with fire, woodland expansion was reduced, highlighting the effectiveness of early intervention by fire in reducing encroachment.

Reducing encroachment of terrestrial vegetation is an oft-cited objective of environmental flow recommendations, but there has been no systematic assessment of the evidence for and against the widely-accepted cause-and-effect mechanisms involved.

Academics have long predicted, based on precedents in the rich world, that a host of such changes – which include the arrival of modern agricultural methods and rising living standards – would reduce encroachment on forests.

The LES evaluation results were then used as the basis of optimizing urban expansion and restrained the excessive sprawl of the city, which could reduce encroachment on land resources such as waterbody and farmland, thereby increasing the ecosystem services value (ESV) by 50.24 million RMB(1 RMB = 0.15 US dollar).

However, our four mechanistic hypotheses indicate which life-history stages can be targeted by environmental flows to reduce encroachment.

This finding supports better river management by identifying mechanisms that reduce encroachment, thereby allowing managers to improve riverine ecosystem function, and maintain fluvial processes and channel morphology.

Overall, we predict that restoration of more natural flow regimes will reduce encroachment of terrestrial vegetation into regulated river channels, partly through increased mortality.

Greater inundation alone may reduce encroachment of herbaceous species, shrubs, and small saplings (Stromberg and others 1993; Stromberg 1997; Hooke and Mant 2000; Mayence and others 2010), but may better serve as a complement to manual removal for established terrestrial vegetation, particularly adult trees (e.g., Stromberg and others 1993; Hooke and Mant 2000).

The lanes reduce encroachments by motor vehicles and also help reduce wrong-way riding, a leading cause of bike accidents and fatalities.

Jennies showed a preference for herbaceous species, although they were able to incorporate in their diet up to 30% of shrubs, suggesting that they can be used as biological tool for controlling and reducing shrub encroachment in these mountain areas.

In our opinion, such bioactive compounds will probably not substitute antibiotics but rather optimize the effectiveness of infectious diseases treatment, notably through biofilm disruption and antibiotic dose reduction; their use is also appealing to optimize the use of microbicidal products by reducing biofilm encroachment on biomaterials and medical devices.