Sentence examples for terrestrial area from inspiring English sources

Large parts of the terrestrial area of planet Earth belong to the cryosphere.

The total terrestrial area of Shenzhen is 0.19 million ha, and the coastline of the city totals 229.96 kilometers.

The postulated natural environment had alternately repeating sand and wetlands from the sea to the terrestrial area and included middle gravel terraces, coastal terraces, or dissected hills.

The surface geology shows alternately repeated mud-rich and sand-rich sediments and with sandstone and mudstone in the terrestrial area (Fig. 8e; right).

As a global benchmark, the WBGU recommends to allocate not more than 3% of the terrestrial area to energy cropping to avoid conflicts with nature conservation.

As a basis for conservation management, sufficient information about landscape structure should be provided for the whole terrestrial area of a watershed.

Protected terrestrial areas covered 15% of land and coastal marine areas worldwide by 2014, up from 8.7% in 1990.

These days, 12.2percentt of countries' terrestrial areas is protected, including more than 120,000 sites, according to a 2007 report from the United Nations Environment Program World Conservation Monitoring Center.

Great differences occur among their physicochemical processes, including biogeochemical pathways, the relative ecological importance of the floodplain (if present), the main stem of the river or stream, the hyporheic zone (the environment below the bed), and contiguous terrestrial areas.

It has 20 ambitious targets, including halving and where feasible bringing close to zero the rate of loss of natural habitats, including forests; restoring at least 15 percent of degraded areas; and extending protected terrestrial areas from 13 percent of land at present to 17 percent, and protected marine areas from 1 percent to 10 percent.

Heavy isotope content decreases gradually toward terrestrial areas in comparison with oceans and seas.