Sentence examples for sustained vegetation from inspiring English sources

The Sahara has one of the lowest species densities in the world, and a sustained vegetation cover (which can include trees and bushes) occurs only in the massifs and oases.

Forest managers are frequently confronted with sustaining vegetation diversity and structure in landscapes experiencing high ungulate browsing pressure.

Regulations allow selected overburden materials to be substituted for topsoil or used as a soil supplement if the operator demonstrates that the substitute material is equally or more suitable for sustaining vegetation.

93% of the provincial land area comprises rangelands that cannot sustain vegetation throughout the year, leading to seasonal migrations of nomadic populations to areas within the Baluchistan province and bordering areas of Afghanistan along with their livestock in search of food and water for themselves as well as their cattle and sheep flocks.

Selective herbicide application on ROW sustained shrubland vegetation and supported high densities and high nesting success.

Improved nitrogen retention by the Wetland treatment came at the cost of over 12,000 l (3200 gal) of irrigation to sustain the vegetation through the hot, dry summer.

Tree wells without irrigation systems have been hand-watered weekly, but Svalstad said that wasn't proving adequate to sustain the vegetation.

Treatments were weedy (no vegetation control), herbaceous (complete sustained control of woody vegetation), woody (complete sustained control of herbaceous vegetation), weedfree (complete sustained control of all competing vegetation) and operational (only the woody perennial broadleaves were removed prior to any pruning/thinning event in the commercial weed control treatment).

The Army Corps of Engineers rushed in after the devastating flood of 1938 and built concrete water channels down the arroyo, which controlled floods but denied water to the rest of the riverbed, drying out the vegetation that sustained native animals.

Additionally, several areas sustained light damage to vegetation as evidenced by uprooted trees.

Sparse vegetation sustains a few hardy alpine mammals such as the marmot.