disturbed area
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdisturbedandarea
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disturbed
adjective
uk/dɪˈstɜːbd/us/dɪˈstɝːbd/
not thinking or behaving normally because of mental or ...
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area
noun
uk/ˈeə.ri.ə/us/ˈer.i.ə/
a particular part of a place, piece of land, ...
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(Definition ofdisturbedandareafrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In thedisturbedareabusiness is suspended, hut there has been no incendiarism and not much looting.
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It is in adisturbedarea, where no meetings of more than 250 people were allowed.
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He volunteered to go into adisturbedareato exchange with a married man with a family.
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I happen to know that the missionary societies do not like to withdraw their workers, whether male or female, from even adisturbedarea.
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The troops have been called out, and are kept ready in thedisturbedarea.
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Sniping then became general throughout thedisturbedarea.
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I am afraid that in a force of that sort the roughneck who might go in might increase, rather than decrease, the difficulties of thedisturbedarea.
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Oil this occasion, when there was adisturbedarea, the commanding officer, for the purposes of information which he required, had called on the aircraft to carry out this reconnaissance.
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Seedlings are usually seen ondisturbedareawhere seed-bearing plants exist.
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Thedisturbedareahad become organized enough to be considered a tropical depression.
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There is a small area of heath on the hill with heather and bell heather and in thedisturbedareaaround the hut circles.
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A largedisturbedareaaround the runway is still in evidence.
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Much of the agricultural area lies in thedisturbedarea.
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A layer of compost spread over adisturbedareaof soil is called a compost blanket.
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Both white mangrove and leather fern can become dominant in disturbed areas, which may explain their increased representation.
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Their competitive advantage is to be 'on-site' before disturbed areas regain attractiveness for their dispersal vectors and to replace short-lived pioneers in the longer run.
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Bats are responsible for colonization of plants into forest gaps because they often disperse the seeds of plants adapted for growth in disturbed areas.
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Likewise, the two non-pioneers prefer intact, and dense forest but could also occur in disturbed areas although with greatly reduced abundance.
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The difference in species density suggests species recruitment was higher in disturbed areas.
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The use of smoke water has applications in the rehabilitation of disturbed areas, horticultural industries, ecological management, and crop production, particularly organic farming systems.
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