"sparse cover" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used when describing a situation where there is not a lot of something covering a particular area or subject. For example: - "The sparse cover of trees in the desert made for a beautiful and desolate landscape." - "The article only provided a sparse cover of the complex issue, leaving many questions unanswered." - "The sparse cover of knowledge on the topic made it difficult for the students to write their essays."
Shrubs of the genus Artemisia provide sparse cover on the lower slopes.
The area is at its bleakest in the north, most of which either is sterile rocky desert or has a sparse cover of hardy grasses.
Few major artists employ them, yet they get half the album here, alongside another leftfield auteur, Madlib, who produces the sparse cover of Eddie Kendricks's 'My People' and the fabulous 'The Healing'.
Whether crouched in the mangroves of the Yucatán waiting for agile green-winged teal to whip past, lying on my back in a jouncing, anchored skiff on Long Island Sound watching a flock of bluebills laboring upwind toward me low over the waves, or huddled in sparse cover on the vast, tidal flats of James Bay, Ontario, in quest of snow geese, I have pursued waterfowl in many places.
Three different levels of vegetation cover were used: 1%, sparse cover (US); 30%, moderate cover (MM); 80%, dense cover (LD).
US, sparse cover (1%); MM, moderate cover (30%); LD, dense cover (80%); in, within the exclosure; out, outside the exclosure; P, pre-thinning; numbers represent years after thinning.
In the twilight of his career, Tom Jones, like Johnny Cash before him, is producing a series of sparse covers records that showcase his still-powerful vocals.
The ENM of P. t. ellioti (Ecotone) also showed elevated gain in regions with sparse tree cover and less gain within areas of dense tree cover compared to P. t. ellioti (Rainforest).
Following clearing and burning, much of the converted land remains in sparse shrub cover.
Initially, we differentiated CLC from all wet tundra objects using a low productivity (NDVI) threshold, which was associated with sparse vegetation cover and the presence of open water.
