Sentence examples for watershed functioning from inspiring English sources

This study describes an important feedback between trail use and drainage systems where trails progressively migrate upslope of degraded stream crossings and points of channel initiation, thus expanding the drainage network and altering watershed functioning.

However, some droplets were connected in clusters and a watershed function was used to dissociate them.

After a median filter was applied to improve image noise, a threshold was set and the watershed function was used.

The role of trees in improving watershed functions and the importance of hydraulic lift in dryland environments are also considered.

These results point to the importance of understanding the independent and interactive effects of multiple invaders on watershed function.

They involve a within biome comparison across the Pacific upland forests, together with vertical transects to study watershed functions down to the coastal and near-shore marine habitats.

Our case studies reveal that local communities and policy-makers have a diverse range of knowledge regarding watershed functions and services.

Oil sands development in Canada presents overwhelming challenges for boreal forest conservation and reclamation due to the disturbance of watershed function.

In this area, various myths about watershed functions – already dismissed in other parts of the world – still dominate the thinking of many foresters and policymakers; this paper illustrates how and why this situation came about.

Forest degradation in turn resulted for scarcity of fuelwood and other substantial antagonistic consequences, such as watershed functions deterioration, loss of biodiversity, carbon dioxide release into the environment and intensive soil erosion (Jain and Singh1999; Heltberg et al. 2000; Pandey 2002).

A distance map was calculated for the foreground pixels (R::EBImage::diatmap), and a watershed function was applied to index the foreground objects with tolerance = 1 and extension = 3 (R::EBImage::watershed).