Sentence examples for spreading of forest from inspiring English sources

One objective of this study was to establish the role of these species in starting and spreading of forest fires through determination of their risk indices.

Crown fires advance through the tops of trees or shrubs more or less independently of the surface fire and are the fastest spreading of all forest fires.

Although considerable progress has been made recently in the modelling of the spreading of a forest fire, there remains a lack of reliable field measurements of thermodynamic quantities.

While the former started to diverge most probably in mountains (with subsequent spreading of two " setulosus" MOTUs to forests of central and eastern Africa), the latter had ancestors occurring with similar support either in savannahs or in hills of Eastern Africa.

We assessed the relative importance of vegetation type, fuel treatment and the spatial patterning of vegetation on the probability of fire spreading to forests.

We studied world climates as though they were permanent fixtures, the Sahara an aberrant stretch of sand, the Amazon forest an eternal and inviolable spread of forest.

New agricultural techniques brought wide areas of Breckland into permanent and stable agricultural use, while the spread of forest plantations obliterated much of the earlier heathland.

A spread of forest, only surviving because William the Conqueror said it should, a place bisected by the M27 and notorious for traffic snarl-ups in tiny towns where Ferrari and Maserati dealerships slug it out on the high streets, is the world's finest and greenest.

The spread of forest and crop pests -- requiring chemicals for control -- pose additional long term health and environmental risks.

The spread of forests during the pluvials, separating northern and southern wooded grasslands, led to the evolution of such closely related northern and southern species of antelope as the kob and puku, the Nile and common lechwe, and the northern and southern forms of white rhinoceros.

This work proposes a new thermal image processing method for computing the rate of spread (ROS) of forest fires.