Sentence examples for widespread grazing from inspiring English sources

The Flint Hills supports a major cattle industry, however, and therefore experiences widespread grazing and frequent burning.

This study demonstrates the sensitivity of dunes in arid and semi-arid regions to a combination of local and short-term fluctuations in windiness at times of widespread grazing (anthropogenic activity).

Designers of agri-environmental policies applied to Mediterranean grasslands should be aware of the risk of widespread grazing abandonment and promote the diversification of grazing regimes across the landscape to maximize species diversity and take advantage of the benefits of low-density grazing in other functions of the ecosystem such as their productivity and stability.

Thus, by preventing widespread livestock grazing, conservancies retain grass, which, when accessed, is a big benefit.

We assert that mesquite expansion may have ultimately occurred in the absence of widespread livestock grazing during the last 130 years because of removal of barriers to mesquite expansion created by indigenous peoples.

Due to the mainly subclinical and self limiting course [ 1] the infection may be widespread in animals grazing I. ricinus habitats without notice [ 7].

The native grasslands of the state have been invaded on a massive scale by aggressive grasses and broadleaves from the 'fertile crescent', plants that have survived and flourished despite thousands of years of widespread cultivation and livestock grazing.

During the Neoproterozoic, however, there were no (widespread) animals to graze on the algae.

One implication of these studies is that loss of biocrusts in the intermountain west due to widespread disturbance (typically from cattle grazing) enables rapid invasion of annual grasses.

Unintended changes brought about by human activities are even more widespread and include forest clearance, agriculture, grazing, road construction, and urbanization, which increase rates of rainfall runoff and accelerate processes of water erosion.

The focus of this chapter is the impact of widespread, primarily distributed land-use types, including timber production, crop agriculture, grazing, and urban land uses at the small watershed scale.