Sentence examples for significant cropland from inspiring English sources

The country scenario is distinguished by significant cropland expansion in China and Indonesia while the regional scenario is highlighted by significant cropland expansion in Brazil with net cropland abandonment in China.

For example, significant cropland development in Brazil under the regional scenario, an important source of global biomass carbon stock, largely explains that scenario's relatively poor performance on the crop – carbon emissions tradeoff ratio.

"If federal taxpayers are going to be asked to spend this kind of money, it better be for a program that works," said Steve Pedery of Oregon Wild, which favors taking a significant amount of cropland out of production to reduce water demand.

In addition, we found that ∼70% of North American lakes that decreased in DI-TP over the 20th century also showed a significant decrease in cropland extent but none of the European lakes showed a decline in DI-TP.

Cereal yield potential on a grid cell is partly explained by irrigation; in general, potential yield in a cell is higher if we assume a significant portion of cropland in the cell is irrigated instead of rainfed.

The cesium-137 and fly ash data suggests that cropland lost significant sediment, fly ash and cesium-137 to erosion process especially from the upper and lower backslopes and footslope.

The most significant damage was to croplands inundated by flood waters.

How many tonnes of fertilizer can be used on a hectare of cropland without causing significant harm?

These relationships reveal that water, like forest and cropland, has a significant effect in mitigating UHIs in Wuhan due to its large spatial extent and homogeneous spatial distribution.

Since current world forest area is 3 times that of cropland, and a significant part of cropland corresponds to potential grassland and even desert rather than potential forest, the degree of overestimation is modest.

Soil organic carbon stocks at 0 50 cm depth in coniferous plantations were significantly higher than in croplands, with a significant difference found in the upper 5 cm.