I had been looking for animals all day long, driving and walking through grasslands and forest patches that surround the endless lakes dotting the landscape of this region.

不论是开车经过草原，还是步行穿越丛林，欣赏那似风景画般的湖泊时，我都一直在寻找野生动物。

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Patches of forest on the right and lower edges of the image are brown and dark green.

小块的林地处于图片的右侧和底部边缘，是棕色和暗绿色的。

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Mountaintop coal mining in Appalachia clears patches of forest contributing to the decline of birds like the cerulean warbler that breeds and forests in treetops.

在阿巴拉契亚的山顶的煤矿开采导致森林许多小片土地的减少，从而像蓝鹂莺这样的鸟类繁殖减少。

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Extensive parkland with a mosaic of forest patches and subalpine meadow communities extends from 1, 500 - 2, 000 meters above sea level.

UNESCO: Biosphere Reserve Information

Today, small patches of forest clearance account for more than half the total.

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To calculate this, the team took data from patches of forest studied on the ground, in which every tree's diameter has been recorded, and combined them with images from MODIS and with data from an instrument called GLAS, which bounced laser beams off the Earth's surface between 2003 and 2009.

ECONOMIST: Monitoring forests: Seeing the world for the trees | The