Concrete bunds turn the water sterile and leave no room for natural, vegetated spawning banks. |
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The replacement of vegetated areas with concrete cover in high-density urban areas has a number of environmental drawbacks. |
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They live in nearshore coastal waters in vegetated areas, usually over mud or sand. |
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Inland, a high central plateau drops eastward towards the vegetated dunes of the Kalahari Desert. |
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The jet device can measure the erosion potential of a soil in vegetated channels, road embankments, dams, spillways, and construction sites. |
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To be effective, a vegetative infiltration area must be designed, constructed, vegetated, and adequately maintained. |
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When predators are present, small sunfish forgo achieving high growth rates and reside in safer, vegetated habitats. |
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Groundhogs prefer to live where timbered areas are bordered by open land or along fence rows and heavily vegetated gullies or stream banks. |
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Although there were abundant lakes and ponds on the islands, they would have been vegetated chiefly by bulrushes. |
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In tropical vegetated seabird colonies such as Aride, predatory ants may feed on tick eggs and larvae thereby reducing tick levels. |
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It can be locally common in clear lakes and impoundments, usually in vegetated areas. |
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Under such circumstances their wagons frequently became stuck and they had to cut open new roadways on higher and thicker vegetated ground. |
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This habitat should also contain densely vegetated corridors to allow these secretive birds to move under cover. |
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Many people wonder whether a vegetated rooftop will cause water, and possibly dangling roots, to drop through their ceiling. |
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Breeding birds are found both near the coast and farther inland on sparsely vegetated, dry Arctic tundra. |
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Densely vegetated ditches with temporary standing water can be an important habitat for freshwater molluscs. |
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One of the best of these sparsely vegetated, shrubby habitats is found on the western slopes of BlackJack Mountain. |
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Desert dunes shift as winds pick up sand grains and dump them elsewhere, potentially turning vegetated land into desert. |
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The thin mantle of soil and quartzitic gravel is vegetated with ubiquitous sagebrush typical of the high desert in northeastern Nevada. |
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The edge of a town wrapped around into view off in the near-distance, small rough-hewn huts scattered about on the sparsely vegetated plain. |
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Shallow, slow-moving, and thickly vegetated backwaters are the kissing gourami's natural habitat. |
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While stabilized and vegetated, the dune fields are often degraded, since in some cases it has been many thousands of years since they were last active. |
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This silted water should be treated by discharging to settling basins, vegetated areas or sediment traps prior to release to streams. |
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One rock pile, consisting primarily of Rabbit Lake sediments, has been contoured and vegetated. |
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The vulture also prefers open spaces, foraging over grassland, thornbush, macchia, karoo, desert, and other sparsely vegetated regions, while it avoids large forested areas. |
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Hummock tundra is found on moderate to steep slopes with relatively stone free soil, where round, vegetated clumps of 20-40Â cm height develop. |
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These watercourses range from unmapped, vegetated drainage features to named, navigable corridors including the Mackenzie River. |
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Walkovers and boardwalks have been constructed to limit access to newly vegetated and sensitive dunes. |
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The affected strip was partly separated from the river by a vegetated berm, and the area is under water four to six weeks a year. |
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The northern pike is a cool-water species and its habitat is usually warm, slow, heavily vegetated rivers or the weedy bays of lakes. |
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The junction of saltwater and freshwater floods is marked by the transition from bare salt pan to vegetated plains. |
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Riparian areas are the lushly vegetated areas in coulees, alongside rivers, creeks, lakes and sloughs. |
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Tough, spiky, tussocky spinifex grass dominates the arid, sparsely vegetated interior. |
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Any surplus amounts can be stockpiled, and the stockpiles reclaimed and vegetated. |
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Yet, the northern pike, a coolwater species, prefers spawning areas with slow moving water, such as wetlands or submerged, vegetated floodplains. |
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Living in rocky, partially vegetated deserts, savannas, and dry woodlands, they den in rock crevices, termite mounds, or other rodents' burrows. |
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Roadside ditches should end blindly in vegetated areas, never directly into a stream. |
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Seabeach amaranth typically occurs on sparsely vegetated areas such as interdunal flats, overwash flats, lower foredunes, and points of non-eroding beaches. |
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Many sites are heavily vegetated with the unique occurrence of trees reaching 3.6 m in height. |
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For example, a rocky shoreline used by bass and other panfish may be replaced with a sloping vegetated shoreline to be used for pike spawning. |
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Many of them are now in the process of reviewing the roofs and facades that may be vegetated or accommodate solar collectors. |
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The beach crest was smeared landward over top of the low vegetated backshore and old beach ridges. |
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The final cover will be vegetated and shaped to promote drainage of surface runoff. |
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Within-island genetic uniformity decreased significantly with increasing population size, as approximated by total island area and vegetated area. |
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This area is lightly vegetated with juniper, pine, sage, and grasses. |
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The vegetated area may be either a long, grassed, gently sloping channel or a broad, flat area with a slight slope away from the inlet surrounded by a berm or dike. |
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I've drunk myself stupid at university, I've smoked, and I've vegetated. |
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The island is approximately 54 km long and 1.2 km wide, with vegetated sand dunes along its length and both wide and narrow beaches around its perimeter. |
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Make sure the manure is stored in a location away from wells and any waterways, and that any runoff is confined or slowly released into a vegetated area. |
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Although most of the abundant species were found in several habitat types, species richness and habitat use appeared to be highest for vegetated habitats. |
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Accordingly, we may speculate that even the small members of the clade must prefer a habitat near the edge of the vegetated zone, with adequate light. |
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Spawning occurs in more heavily vegetated backwaters. |
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During the day, rabbits prefer to reside in vegetated patches, which they use for protection from predators. |
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Whimbrels in Iceland show a strong preference for sparsely vegetated riverplains. |
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They can also originate from beach sands and extend inland into vegetated areas in coastal zones and on shores of large lakes. |
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The area is wild and largely vegetated by heather about one metre thick, with some acidic grassland and bracken. |
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The more densely vegetated sandy loam site supported scattered longleaf yucca, Mormon tea, black grama, sand dropseed and blue grama. |
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Promote cropland conservation techniques that help farmers protect naturally vegetated banks, preventing the run-off of fertilizers and pesticides into water bodies and minimizing damage to wildlife habitat. |
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For example, vegetated stream banks prevent erosion from contributing sediments and other pollutants, such as phosphorus, to the water and provide shade to the water and aquatic biota. |
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It is in the vegetative stage that methods like Sea of Green cut down on production time-Sea of Green plants may be vegetated for as little as two weeks. |
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The vegetation of the Eremian Zone ranges from barely vegetated desert and hills through a variety of semiarid shrub savannas, shrub steppes, semiarid tussock grasslands, and sclerophyllous hummock grasslands. |
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It contains vegetated and non-vegetated habitats. |
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They are important sources of fixed carbon in sparsely vegetated areas. |
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The barrier islands and dunes are sparsely vegetated. |
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Pump sediment laden dewatering discharge into a vegetated area or settling basin, and prevent sediment and other deleterious substances from entering any water body. |
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The Jacanas were observed in the vegetated part of the lake at the three sites and so were the lily trotters. |
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Similarly, the role of the vegetated surface and the vadose zone are poorly understood, from both a water balance perspective, and with respect to the transfer of nutrients. |
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According to the literature, we find that the reduction of vegetated cover reduces transpirational losses and interception losses, increases soil moisture, and the amount of soil water available for streamflow. |
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The Tanimbar Islands and other southeastern islands are arid and sparsely vegetated, much like nearby Timor. |
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The surface contour and vegetated cover promote run-off of rainfall and snowmelt, as well as evapo-transpiration of moisture to the atmosphere, which minimizes net infiltration through the tailings. |
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By contrast, cottontail rabbits are built for short bursts of speed in more vegetated habitats. |
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Near the coast there are areas where the dunes are vegetated with hammocks. |
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Several years ago, Jornada researchers noticed grasses were starting to become established on land that had been vegetated with mesquite and creosote bushes. |
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They are hunted by locals in very steep and heavily vegetated terrain. |
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Large tracts of land naturally vegetated with predominantly miombo species and grasses were cleared to pave way for the fast growing exotic trees. |
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Outside the breeding season, most red foxes favour living in the open, in densely vegetated areas, though they may enter burrows to escape bad weather. |
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