Sentence examples for terrestrial landscape from inspiring English sources

In contrast, nearly 15% of the world's terrestrial landscape is protected.

Satellites that map vegetation and the nighttime signature of human activity -- fire and light -- show that people have altered more than one-third of the terrestrial landscape.

A study in the current issue of the journal Nature, however, shows that springtails — blind arthropods that crawl and jump across the terrestrial landscape — improve fertilization rates in moss colonies and favor hanging out near female moss scents.

When I first went to Chile's Atacama Desert, in 1990 — the year Augusto Pinochet finally stepped down after nearly 16 years in power — I found that the terrestrial landscape was almost as extraordinary as the objects I studied in the sky.

Apart from discovering dinosaurs with feathers, which confirmed that some of them must have survived the mass extinction 65 million years ago to evolve into birds, scientists have also unearthed a bewildering array of fossils that demonstrate just how diverse this group of large land animals had become during their long reign of the terrestrial landscape.

Eventually, Lunine says, the terrestrial landscape will start to look a lot like Titan's, with scattered lakes only at the poles and dry terrain everywhere else.

Saline and brackish marshes are inundated with seawater diluted by freshwater from rivers and terrestrial landscapes.

Odonates require healthy waterbodies for their larval stages and resource-rich terrestrial landscapes as adults.

Floodplain riparian ecosystems support unique vegetation communities and high biodiversity relative to terrestrial landscapes.

Today, 40% of all terrestrial landscapes have been converted for human use.

Studies in terrestrial landscapes show that raindrop impacts and sheetflow entrain and transport sediment.