Sentence examples for vegetation strips from inspiring English sources

IFMs are extensively managed, sown species- and flower-rich vegetation strips which provide both habitats for a wide range of species and valuable structures for the ecological network.

Reductions of nitrogen (N) export from agricultural lands because of changes in specific N stocks and fluxes by incorporation of small amounts of prairie vegetation strips (PVS) are poorly understood.

Soil erosion, runoff, and soil water content patterns over a three-year period were monitored in erosion plots on a mountainside with rainfed olive (Olea europaea cv. Picual) trees under: 1) non-tillage with barley strips of 4 m width (BS); 2) non-tillage with native vegetation strips of 4 m width (NVS); and 3) non-tillage without plant strips (NT).

The data show that the vegetation strip running from north to south along the Amu-Daria valley does not play a major role as a flyway for many migratory birds in crossing the arid belt of Central Asia.

Amid a fertile stand of trees and scrub and their dependent wildlife, kudzu can easily take over, strangling the local native vegetation, stripping resident critters of their accustomed food sources, and, at some juncture, causing the interdependent system that had grown up in that spot to collapse, with little practical ability to bounce back.

With its covering of vegetation stripped away, however, soil is as vulnerable to damage as a tortoise without its shell.

The engineering included three parts: riparian vegetation buffering strip (part 1); multi-functional ecological fishponds (part 2), and river channel enhancement zone (part 3).

Our results suggest that well designed and maintained areas of dense vegetation, like vegetative filter strips, can be used as an effective best management practice to reduce colloidal contaminants in surface runoff.

Consequently, the vegetation in riparian strips is periodically subjected to grazing, mowing, burning and/or herbicide spraying.

In this paper we study a model which describes the pattern formation of vegetation spots and strips in a semi-arid or arid landscape.

Maintaining woody vegetation in riparian strips should increase abundance and diversity of wildlife within agricultural landscapes where increasing development pressure is presently contributing to the conversion of such habitats to herbaceous strips.