watersheds in English

noun
1
an area or ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different rivers, basins, or seas.
In the Marin watershed on Pumpkin Ridge, Davidson showed me a site where Rizzo and other scientists had injected some healthy coast live oaks with P. ramorum.
synonyms:divide
2
an event or period marking a turning point in a course of action or state of affairs.
these works mark a watershed in the history of music

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1. Bokes Creek & Mill Creek . Watersheds Inventory and Watershed Action Plan

2. In eastern Canadian watersheds, sulfate continues to be the primary acidifying agent.

3. Kant and Crone are the watersheds in the field of human art philosophy.

4. Bioregions are often organized around watersheds, and they can be nested within each other

5. • 5.7 Transfer of alkalinity from watersheds to surface waters: The role of base cations

6. � Based on the “Harmonized accidental water pollution response plan for the Körös/Crisuri and Berettyo/Barcau watersheds” report (KSZI).

7. All twenty watersheds sampled in 2007 and 2008 had detectable levels of Atrazine, and sixteen had

8. Physical and chemical characteristics of three acidic oligotrophic lakes and their watersheds in Kejimkujik Park, Nova Scotia.

9. All of these watersheds have impoundments, and are subject to extensive agricultural drainage (open and tile drains).

10. Burbot is a cold water species that inhabits lowland lakes and rivers in northern, central and western watersheds

11. Anastomoses Interaxillary B Axillo - inguinal Interinguinal Watersheds Median Sagittal (anterior and posterior) Spine of Scapula (Posterior Upper Horizontal/Transverse) Clavicle (Anterior Upper Horizontal/Transverse) Horizontal/Transverse (anterior and posterior) Gluteal5 4 3 2 1 A C Lymphatic Watersheds and Anastomoses BSN medical Inc., an

12. Biosolids are also creating tension in some rural communities as farmers who use it pollute watersheds, contaminate neighbors’ wells or …

13. The New Haven Bioregional Group began in 2005 as a collaborative effort to “walk the watersheds” of the Quinnipiac Bioregion

14. This is consistent with the results based on the acidity indices, which have also been increasing in all three watersheds

15. This is consistent with the results based on the acidity indices, which have also been increasing in all three watersheds.

16. 14 The Ahaggar massif was apparently one of the chief watersheds, for enormous wadis radiate from it in all directions.

17. Alongside this insouciance goes a Balkanised decision-making process, with numerous overlapping authorities responsible for different watersheds, sanitation plants and irrigation.

18. Table 2 below shows how the water samples analyzed during the Biennium were distributed across the various PSP and pilot watersheds

19. He concedes that the wastefulness (and water conservation) he chronicles has little or no effect on people in other watersheds because water is so difficult to ship.

20. Basins can be used for investigations and analysis on a variety of geospatial scales from small watersheds within a single municipality, to a large watershed across several states.

21. Bioregions are geographic areas defined by the intersection of ecosystem boundaries — typically things like watersheds, mountain ranges, and so forth — with human systems that have a coherent cultural identity

22. Water demands and changing water flow patterns from the short (29-54 km) watersheds arising from urbanization are now Acerbating drought-related stresses experienced by even drought-tolerant local species

23. Forest fire may alter water chemistry in local watersheds but did not appear to increase the accumulation of methyl mercury in aquatic food webs in Boreal Plain lakes of Alberta.

24. Chief pathways of human infection include ingestion of untreated sewage, a phenomenon particularly common in many developing countries; contamination of natural waters also occurs in watersheds where intensive grazing occurs.

25. The Beaver Restoration Assessment Tool (Brat) is planning tool intended to help researchers, restoration practitioners and resource managers assess the potential for beaver as a stream conservation and restoration agent over large regions and watersheds.

26. Also, there is mounting evidence regarding the relationship between the size of base cation reservoirs in forested watersheds and the acidification of surface waters as well as the lack of recovery of pH levels.

27. Recent Examples on the Web Decades ago the Forest Service had facilitated the clearcut logging of much of the surrounding watersheds and mountains—destroying public land and habitat needed by Sitka Blacktail deer, brown bears, and other wildlife

28. The Cascadia Bioregion sits on the east coast of the Pacific Rim, defined through the watersheds of the Columbia, Fraser and Snake Rivers, stretching all the way from Alaska to northern California, as far east as the Yellowstone Caldera, and for as far as the salmon swim

29. Bamboos function as carbon sinks, agents in oxygen production, control of soil erosion, provision of organic matter, regulation of water levels in watersheds, conservation of biodiversity, landscape beautification, and a ready source of bamboo shoots for food, building materials, and shades.

30. “A Bioregion is defined in terms of the unique overall pattern of natural characteristics that are found in a specific place. The main features are generally found throughout a continuous geographic terrain and include a particular climate, local aspects of seasons, landforms, watersheds, soils, and native plants and animals.” (Peter Berg)

31. The history of the Choctaw Nation in Oklahoma began in 1820 when tribal leaders in central Mississippi signed the Treaty of Doak's Stand, ceding rich cotton lands in the delta region east of the Mississippi River for approximately thirteen million acres in the Canadian, Kiamichi, Arkansas, and Red River watersheds in southeastern Oklahoma.