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HECTARE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(abbreviated 'ha') a unit of surface area equal to 100 ares (or 10,000 square meters)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("hectare" is a kind of...):
area unit; square measure (a system of units used to measure areas)
Meronyms (parts of "hectare"):
ar; are (a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters)
Context examples:
A hectare is a non-SI unit currently accepted for use with SI.
(Hectare, NCI Thesaurus)
Overall, the study found that doubling ladybird density increased incomes by approximately US$100 per hectare per year.
(Study estimates true value of ladybird as biocontrol, SciDev.Net)
The positive message from the study is that this scenario may be averted with no significant harm to the increase in the agricultural production set to take place in the cerrado—something near 15 million hectares for soy beans and sugar cane in the next 30 years.
(Species native to Brazil savanna likely to face extinction, Agência Brasil)
It comes after record fires in the Brazilian Amazon last year burned around 1 million hectares of forest between July and September, according to official statistics, while environmental organisations put the figure at more than double that.
(Australian bushfire smoke drifts to South America, SciDev.Net)
According to the Atlas of the Atlantic Forest Remains, which monitors the spatial distribution of the forest, the state of Paraná, one of the country's largest grain producers, reached the largest areas of regeneration in the period assessed, totaling 75,612 hectares; followed by Minas Gerais (59,850 hectares), Santa Catarina (24,964 hectares), São Paulo (23,021 hectares) and Mato Grosso do Sul (19,117 hectares).
(Brazil: Atlantic Forest regeneration in nine states, Agência Brasil)
From 2015 to 2016, Bahia was the state most severely hit by deforestation—12,288 hectares cleared, 207% higher than the previous 3,997 hectares of native vegetation devastated.
(Brazilian Atlantic Forest deforestation up nearly 60% in a year, Agência Brasil)
From 2005 to 2008, the Atlantic Forest lost 102,938 hectares—a yearly average of 34,313 hectares.
(Brazilian Atlantic Forest deforestation up nearly 60% in a year, Agência Brasil)
The deforestation of the Atlantic Forest, Brazil's second most important forest, grew 57.7% in a year, from 2015 to 2016, when the biome lost 29,075 hectares, or 29 thousand football fields.
(Brazilian Atlantic Forest deforestation up nearly 60% in a year, Agência Brasil)
The state of Minas Gerais ranks second, with 7,410 hectares deforested, most of which in the north—an area known for the devastation of its native vegetation for the production of coal and the growing of eucalyptus.
(Brazilian Atlantic Forest deforestation up nearly 60% in a year, Agência Brasil)
