Sentence examples for strips of vegetation from inspiring English sources

Another variety of pattern, formed in sands and muds, is outlined by frost-crack fissures or strips of vegetation.

You'd have an easy time finding threatened species like the reed parrotbill, because their populations are driven into narrow strips of vegetation beside vast mud flats — square miles of them, stretching to the horizon — that have been clear-cut to the ground.

This concept is being increasingly used in developing strips of vegetation, often called 'greenbelts' around sources of pollution.

The P factor is an expression of the effects of supporting conservation practices, such as contouring, buffer strips of vegetation, and terracing, on soil loss at a particular site.

Ensure your irrigation is efficient, minimise your chemical and pesticide inputs, obey the law and ensure you have a strip of vegetation beside any river you might border.

Instead, bare branches appeared as woody stands of toothpick-thin skeletons, the way they might in February when they are stripped of vegetation.

Yasi (Fijian for sandalwood tree) may sound cute and cuddly, but when locals awoke this morning, they were greeted by scenes akin to a "war zone", with flattened streetscapes, stripped of vegetation.

"Lake Conroe went from being a world-class bass fishery to a big mudhole," said Mr. Anderson, describing the lake as an unmitigated disaster, stripped of vegetation, foreign and native.

Entire valleys are being stripped of vegetation and life; rivers are being turned into dump sites and the air becoming toxic as well.

These included the establishment of a protected strip of vegetation alongside the freeway, and the preservation or enhancement of remnant wetlands under threat from urban expansion.

In many temperate agricultural areas, riparian forests have been converted to cultivated land, and only narrow strips of herbaceous vegetation now buffer many farm streams.