located or originating in, or characteristic of, the countryside; rural
Examples of 'nonurban' in a sentence
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All tardigrade studies comparing urban with nearby nonurban habitats have found lower species richness in cities.
Harry A. Meyer, Juliana G. Hinton, Cari A. Samletzka 2013, 'Water bears in the Anthropocene: a comparison of urban and woodland tardigrade (PhylumTardigrada) communities in Southwestern Louisiana, USA', Journal of Limnologyhttp://www.jlimnol.it/index.php/jlimnol/article/view/756. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Urban soils are considerably different from nonurban areas because they have significant human disturbance, making them more difficult to study.
Tait Chirenje, L.Q. Ma, E.J. Zillioux 2002, 'Determining Arsenic Distribution in Urban Soils: A Comparison with Nonurban Soils',The Scientific World Journalhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2002.187. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Indeed, the detection of the most appreciated nonurban areas could be used for better prioritization, planning, and management.
Gianfranco Gliozzo, Nathalie Pettorelli, Mordechai (Muki) Haklay 2016, 'Using crowdsourced imagery to detect cultural ecosystem services: a case study inSouth Wales, UK', Ecology and Societyhttp://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol21/iss3/art6/. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)