Sentence examples for scale of land from inspiring English sources

Because, the net local/regional impacts of forest cover/deforestation are dependent on the type and scale of land cover change and on local conditions (Pitman and Lorenz 2016, Lucia et al. 2017).

The agent based probabilistic model, working at the scale of land ownership parcels, predicted that future urban development would be the result of forest, rather than farm land conversion.

Drainage density is one of the important indicators of the linear scale of land form in stream-eroded topography and is defined as the ratio of the total length of the streams of all orders of basin to the area of the basin.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, a large scale of land has been expropriated for the construction of a new city.

Although our results show minimal difference between 1 and 0.05 ha models at the scale of land-management units, we need greater exploration of how a broader range of plot sizes impact scaling relationships, across different forest types, to optimise the integration of field-based and airborne inventories.

For example, modifying the forestry law by reducing the scale of land-use change or increasing the time allotted for abandoned lands to recover the original plant community would cause less private and communal lands to be cleared.

The spatial scale of land-use description affects the ability to detect a significant relationship between the land-use gradient and atopy; statistically significant relationships were observed at intermediate scales, from 2 to 5 km (Fig. 3C), which encompasses the scale of 3 km used in the other analyses.

In this study, we use and combine historical hydroclimatic and agricultural data to investigate how this large scale change of land use, and subsequent intensification of crop production, affected regional hydrology in two adjacent Swedish drainage basins.

A small percentage of English arable farmers indicated a willingness to consider growing these crops (17% for miscanthus, 12% for SRC), although only large scale conversion of land from current use to DEC production would lead to substantial areas of DEC production, and current evidence indicates that this is unlikely to occur.

Management variables were largely at the scale of individual land management units, and incorporated macro-level land-use planning.

The RLCL imposes a ban on large-scale reallocations of land and limited small-scale readjustments.