Sentence examples for terrestrial areas from inspiring English sources

Most terrestrial areas of Earth experience some form of drought on occasion.

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.

Target 11 of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets established in 2010 by the Convention on Biological Diversity aims to conserve at least 17% of terrestrial areas by 2020.

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.

Many genera require modest terrestrial areas (<200 m zones) for 95% nest coverage (Actinemys, Apalone, Chelydra, Chrysemys, Clemmys, Glyptemys, Graptemys, Macrochelys, Malaclemys, Pseudemys, Sternotherus), whereas other genera require larger zones (Deirochelys, Emydoidea, Kinosternon, Trachemys).

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

According to the World Database on Protected Areas, the world has protected 15.4% of terrestrial area, including inland waters, as of 2014.

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

Most countries have committed to protect 17% of their terrestrial area by 2020 through Aichi Target 11 of the Convention on Biological Diversity, with a focus on protecting areas of particular importance for biodiversity.

We calculated the ratio of i/o from the model estimates for biodiversity inside relative to outside protected areas in each land use (Fig. 3), where each land-use parameter was weighted by the proportion of global terrestrial area within that land-use type.