Traduction de «Précipitation sous couverture végétale » (Français → Anglais) :

throughfall

Erosion is triggered by a combination of factors such as steep slopes, climate (e.g. long dry periods followed by heavy rainfall), inappropriate land use, land cover patterns (e.g. sparse vegetation) and ecological disasters (e.g. forest fires).

The dryness of the climate — the sub-humid climate — is such that there is a lack of vegetation cover, and this is the main natural characteristic of the Prairies.

The " Greencover Canada Program" , operated by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, provides farmers with an incentive to take marginal crop production land that is deemed environmentally sensitive out of production and to put the land into permanent cover.

The potential for greenhouse gas, GHG, reduction from the agricultural sector can be broken down as follows: a potential of 10 megatonnes, Mt of CO2-equivalent, of GHG reductions in 2010 in the form of agricultural sinks resulting from actions currently underway, business as usual, and this is essentially due to farmers undertaking responsible environmental stewardship,and improved farm management practices promoted by federal government programs such as Action Plan 2000, Budget 2001, the Greencover program and the Agricultural Policy Framework, and provincial government programs; and further adoption of agricultural sink enhancing and ...[+++]GHG reducing initiatives could lead to an additional 8.4 Mt of reduction that could be used as offsets in the domestic emission trading, DET, sector.