Sentence examples for small in extent from inspiring English sources

In particular traditionally managed landscapes, small in extent and mainly scattered over large areas between 1000 and 2200 m a.s.l., are hotspot areas of aesthetic beauty, leisure activities and spirituality.

Such interpretation has been driven largely by empiricism, but increasingly with a mineral systems approach, recognising that mineral deposits, although geographically small in extent, are the result of geological processes that occur at a variety of scales.

Consistent with expectations for charged uncharged polymer combinations at low ionic strength there is no liquid liquid demixing in sols prior to gelation, and although transmission electron microscopy reveals heterogeneities in gel microstructures at the higher polymer concentrations, these are small in extent, and are unlikely to arise from normal segregative demixing.

Up until the early 2000s, the Peruvian access regime to forest resources was in effect based on, and ideally suited for, migratory selective harvest; logging permits were short in duration and small in extent [7].

However, compared to other parts of the world, plantations in Africa are small in extent and, in many cases suffer from poor survival and lack of management.

Recovery from prior land use is generally small in extent, at less than 1percentt, and did not occur in every ecoregion.

"Although much smaller in extent, the color is striking," said UC Berkeley team member Michael Wong.

The Eastern Highlands are much smaller in extent than the Western Highlands, but they offer equally impressive contrast in topography.

The spruce bark beetle outbreak was smaller in extent and duration where white spruce, the beetle's primary host tree, was intermixed with more beetle-resistant black spruce.

However, the somatosensory cortical region activated by stimulating the crushed hindpaw was significantly smaller in extent than the intact hindpaw stimulation.

Species whose future potential range is markedly smaller in extent than their present range also face the likelihood of population reduction and heightened extinction risk [13], even if they are able to respond sufficiently rapidly that their realised range corresponds to their potential range.