| 单词 | overgrazing |
| 释义 | overgrazing noun[U] environmentspecializeduk/ˌəʊ.vəˈɡreɪ.zɪŋ/us/ˌoʊ.vɚˈɡreɪ.zɪŋ/asituationin which there are too manycowsor otheranimalseatinggrassin anarea, whichdamagestheenvironment: 过度放牧Anotherproblemiserosionofstreambankscausedby overgrazing.另一个问题是过度放牧造成的河岸侵蚀。 Animal farming - general words
Examplesofovergrazingovergrazing But if the return on capital goes down, capital becomes cheaper and this will encourage more investment in cattle which, in turn, leads toovergrazing. From theCambridge English Corpus For example, the team worked to preventovergrazing. From theCambridge English Corpus With growing populations, resource depletion is accelerating, it is argued, resulting in widespread deforestation,overgrazing, biodiversity loss, soil erosion and soil fertility decline. From theCambridge English Corpus Inevitably, the purchase of more livestock in the situation of decreasing land, especially critical land, resulted inovergrazingand consequently land degradation. From theCambridge English Corpus These phenomena coupled with population pressure andovergrazinghave finally become the main sources of the environmental degradation we presently observe. From theCambridge English Corpus The causes of degradation are poor agricultural practices,overgrazing, deforestation, commercialization and overexploitation of vegetation8. From theCambridge English Corpus The monthly harvesting treatment was intended to simulateovergrazing. From theCambridge English Corpus Overgrazingcan, for example, lead to desertification; and overexploitation, to the collapse of fisheries and other resource systems. From theCambridge English Corpus Rough grazing and heath were found on similar soils to those bearing trees, which added weight to theovergrazinghypothesis. From theCambridge English Corpus For grasslands, such as the one at the study site, a few years of rest following cultivation orovergrazingmay be enough for grass phytomass to recover. From theCambridge English Corpus Livestock demand for forage exceeds the carrying capacity by some 20 per cent, andovergrazingand competition for food forces the wildlife population down. From theCambridge English Corpus Consolidation in the processing sector may therefore lead to more efficient recycling of solid processing wastes, with indirect benefits on land quality in areas vulnerable toovergrazing. From theCambridge English Corpus Mayer to substitute cash for livestock in order to avoid overcrowding andovergrazingof the reserve areas. From theCambridge English Corpus The colonial administration perceivedovergrazingas a critical ecological threat, and devised various schemes such as the marketing programme to control herd size, roughly 600,000 head. From theCambridge English Corpus Whereovergrazingis proven, our aim is to encourage farmers to change management practices voluntarily or reduce stocking levels to prevent further damage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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