Sentence examples for steep environments from inspiring English sources

We anticipated that plots situated on steeper slopes would deviate more from LiDAR-predicted values than those on flatter slopes due to variations in growth patterns, variations in canopy architecture and the increased difficulty of collecting geolocated field data in steep environments.

Snow avalanches are a widespread natural phenomenon in steep mountain environments, where they modulate landscapes and frequently disturb forest stands.

As a result, at least 14 of the 17 (82%) large landslide dams in our study area appear to have failed cataclysmically, producing large downstream floods now marked by boulder outwash, compared to a 40 70% failure rate for landslide dams in steep mountain environments.

According to Goldstein, while occupancy rates are expected to be stable on a year-over-year basis (2009 vs. 2008) revenue yields will be down 13%–indicative of the steep discounting environment.

The impacts from agricultural developments were most intensive in the central and northern West Coast (McSweeney 1982), but the steep gorge environment and difficult access has minimised such land-use changes in the Mokihinui gorge and thereby preserved vegetation types that may once have occurred in other catchments.

The area to the west of 38.3°E is a steep mountainous environment with habitation ranging to 2,700 m above sea level.

Species that inhabit unstable environments, steep environmental gradients or marginal areas of their distribution are likely to (be stress tolerant or) show plasticity [ 105], or have adaptations to local conditions [ 106- 108].

STEEP 9 Gauging external environments; VSTEEP: STEEP factors -emergent activities across the factors become a Big-Trend.

In a steep yield curve environment, yields climb much more rapidly than normal.

The design of ETS enhances nutrient removal by providing both aerobic and anaerobic environments and steep gradients between the two environments.

Earthquake-induced landslides are of many different types and occur in virtually all geologic environments from steep and high glaciated rock slopes to gently sloping river flood plains and coastal areas underlain by soft sediment.