The lands are at extreme risk of conversion to non-forest uses including resort and residential development.

It is, unlike the other members of the genus Ramphastos, essentially a non-forest species.

This suggests that manakins may have no trouble dispersing across non-forest habitat patches.

Deforestation Those practices or processes that result in the conversion of forested lands for non-forest uses.

The changes in temperature, humidity, and light levels promote invasion of non-forest species, including invasive species.

To conduct inventory in forest and non-forest areas and develop database on forest tree resources.

Biodiesel made from palm oil grown on sustainable non-forest land and from established plantations effectively reduces greenhouse gas emissions.

The term deforestation refers to the complete obstruction of forest canopy cover for means of agriculture, plantations, cattle-ranching, and other non-forest fields.

Deforestation, clearance or clearing is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a non-forest use.

These are even smaller, unnamed plots that DEC is permitted to use for non-Forest Preserve purposes.

Zijlstra and colleagues suggested that this is related to the high proportion of semiaquatic and non-forest species in clade D-most other oryzomyines are forest dwellers.

The non-forest part comprises degraded lands, irregular agriculture and plantations., and deforested lands and fragmented forests.

Major threats to the binturong are habitat loss and degradation of forests through logging and conversion of forests to non-forest land-uses throughout the binturong's range.

This is essentially a non-forest hermit, being found in a wide range of open and semi-open habitats, including Caatinga, Cerrado, and the Pantanal.

In 1988, the Agricultural Economics Department of the University of Minnesota decided to offer IMPLAN software, data, and technical support to non-Forest Service users.

The order directed that all land acquisition and transfer for Posco India project, including handing over of the forest and non-forest land be stopped forthwith, and details submitted to the Ministry.

Most live in the forest, but Zygodontomys, Lundomys, Pseudoryzomys, Aegialomys, and Nesoryzomys live exclusively in open vegetation and some other genera include both forest and non-forest forms.

In many regions, the forest has been cleared for soy bean plantations and ranching (the most extensive non-forest use of the land) and some of the inhabitants harvest wild rubber latex and Brazil nuts.

However, in non-forest regions of Chhoti Sadri (and part of Pratapgarh and Dhariyawad), small scale mining activities are in operation extracting mainly red ochre, calcite, dolomite, quartz, feldspar and soapstone.

The Fynbos and Southwest Australia shrublands have flora that are significantly more diverse than the other ecoregions, although any Mediterranean shrubland is still rich in species and endemics relative to other non-forest ecoregions.

By 32,000 years ago, the appearance of charcoal from frequent fires and an increase in pollen of non-forest tree species compared to forest tree species at New Guinea highland sites hint that people were already visiting the sites, presumably to hunt and to gather forest pandanus nuts as they still do today.

Forest pollen continues to decrease at the expense of non-forest pollen until around 1,200 years ago, when the first big surge in quantities of casuarina pollen appears almost simultaneously in two valleys 500 miles apart, the Baliem Valley in the west and the Wahgi Valley in the east.

Currently about 4% of B.C.'s total green house gas (GHG) yearly emissions are from deforestation, which is quite a low percent compared to B.C.'s total GHG emissions, and works out to be about 6,200 hectares of forest land is converted to non-forest use per year.

Herbaceous - non-woody and dying to the ground at the end of the growing season.

It is a non-woody plant and has a perennial duration, indicating a yearly growth.

A meadow is a field vegetated primarily by grass and other non-woody plants.

From there on herbaceous, non-woody plants will develop and trees will follow.

They are present in most primary cell walls and in the non-woody parts of terrestrial plants.

Herbaceous perennial - non-woody plants that live for more than two years and the shoot system dies back to the soil level each year.

However, woody plants not only belong to many different plant families, but these families may be made up of both woody and non-woody members.

Herbaceous - plants with shoot systems that die back to ground each year - both annual and non-woody perennial plants.

Olericulture is the science of vegetable growing, dealing with the culture of non-woody (herbaceous) plants for food.

Grace supplied Woody's voice until the end of production in 1972, and also appeared in other non-Woody cartoons.

There are normally both ecological and economic interactions between woody and non-woody components in agroforestry.

Wilting refers to the loss of rigidity of non-woody parts of plants.

(Non-woody flowering plant that is not a grass)

One can compare large trees to each other, but when comparing understory trees and shrubs, or non-woody plants, the term takes on a different meaning.

Grafting is often done for non-woody and vegetable plants (tomato, cucumber, eggplant and watermelon).

Turgor makes plant cells push against each other in the same way and is the main line method of support in non-woody plant tissue.

The cranberries, with slender, trailing, wiry non-woody shoots and strongly reflexed flower petals.

This occurs for non-woody monocotyledons of low biomass, where leaves form a constant high proportion of the total biomass.

The caterpillar of the garden tiger moth feeds on various kinds of non-woody plants, as well as bushes and trees.

They are characteristically long, oblong, alternate, or growing opposite one another on non-woody petioles often longer than the leaf, often forming large clumps with age.

Some species are shredders, which use large and powerful mouth parts to feed on non-woody CPOM and their associated microorganisms.

Non-woody plants with underground storage organs such as bulbs and corms can also form colonies, e.g. Narcissus and Crocus.

After the first rains following a fire, the landscape is dominated by soft-leaved non-woody annual plants, known as fire followers, which die back with the summer dry period.

A perennial border (US), or herbaceous border (UK), a maintenance intensive arrangement of soft-stemmed non-woody perennials.

They are small (a few centimeters tall) herbaceous (non-woody) plants that absorb water and nutrients mainly through their leaves and harvest sunlight to create food by photosynthesis.

Both woody and nonwoody plants, especially those under water stress, are susceptible to the fungal disease verticillium wilt.

Herbaceous perennials have nonwoody stems that die back in winter, but the roots send up new growth in spring.

When the tree is stressed, a band of cells on the leaf stalk forms a nonlignified, or nonwoody, weak point, he said.

Secondary growth encompasses all growth in diameter, a major component of woody plant tissues and many nonwoody plants.

The aconites are nonwoody perennials that produce showy blossoms and much-divided, palm-shaped leaves.

Parenchyma cells are thin-walled cells of the ground tissue that make up the bulk of most nonwoody structures, although sometimes they have lignified cell walls.

In animals, a parenchyma comprises the functional parts of an organ and in plants parenchyma is the ground tissue of nonwoody structures.

Secondary growth also occurs in many nonwoody plants, e.g. tomato, potato tuber, carrot taproot and sweet potato tuberous root.

Ms. Lee roots her nonwoody cuttings in long-fiber sphagnum moss, which is fluffy enough to let in air, and then transplants them after they've developed roots.

Members of the Ranunculaceae usually have five colored sepals instead of petals (except buttercups), and divided leaves and nonwoody tissue (except clematis).

Many trees, shrubs, nonwoody perennials, and ferns form clonal colonies by producing new rooted shoots by rhizomes or stolons, which increases the diameter of the colony.

These may be divided into woody vines or lianas, such as wisteria, kiwifruit, and common ivy, and herbaceous (nonwoody) vines, such as morning glory.

This changes the temperature and moisture content of the soil, encouraging some plant varieties to replace others; broad-leafed, nonwoody plants like wildflowers and legumes take over from grasses, for instance.

Woody dicots and many nonwoody dicots have secondary growth originating from their lateral or secondary meristems: the vascular cambium and the cork cambium or phellogen.

In the late 1950's, Federal scientists gathered more than 500 specimens of plants, some woody and some nonwoody, in a search for those with pulp and paper-making potential that would grow well in this country.