Sentences with phrase «-800-year-old epiphyte»

Visa Europe Collab walked us through the bitcoin remittances proof - of - concept prototype they built with the startup Epiphyte.

Visa Europe Collab's Jon Downing and Epiphyte's Edan Yago discussed the reasons for embarking on the project, and for using the bitcoin blockchain instead of a closed network, in this CoinDesk exclusive.

The lab built the prototype with startup Epiphyte as part of a 100 - day development project.

Epiphyte is the leader in providing blockchain - powered FX settlement financial institutions - helping these companies transfer their customer's funds faster, cheaper and more reliably.

Most that was there 6 - 8 years ago has been replaced with fast growing Inga and Albizia as shade trees species that carry no epiphytes and less leaf cover.

Cocoa Woodcreeper (Xiphorhynchus susurrans) prefers gallery forest and older second growth, and forages on large trees by probing the bark, epiphytes, mossy clumps, and vines — which wouldn't be left on trees in intensively managed coffee farms.

I read a report on Cerulean Warbler from Venezuela, where it is said that the old shade trees are being cleaned from Bromeliads and other epiphytes, as it increases moisture and risk of mold.

Indicators specific to maintaining shade cover include percent cover, canopy tree diversity and native species benchmarks, and preservation of epiphytes and vines.

Pruning of the overstory and the removal of epiphytes is discouraged, and buffer zones are encouraged.

Their hollows and crevices provide shelter for myriad animals and their trunks and branches can become gardens, festooned with ferns, orchids, bromeliads and other epiphytes, coated with mosses and lichens and draped with vines.

Just like you'd first test a new stain remover on an inconspicuous part of your favorite jacket, the researchers want to test how an influx of nutrients will affect epiphytes, effects that Cardelùs predicts will preface changes throughout the rest of the forest.

Symbiotic mycorrhizae in the root system boost the growth of green gold, endophytic fungi live in tissues, many epiphytes cover the surfaces of trees and saprotrophic fungi recycle the nutrients of dead trees.

Since epiphytes are cut off from the rich pool of forest floor nutrients, each species has to extract what it needs from the air, rainwater and scant canopy soil, with hundreds of plants tapping into the same 1 - inch acidic layer that forms from decomposing organic material.

Researcher Shannon Young, part of a team assessing the impacts of pollution on the rainforest canopy, measures treetop - dwelling plants called epiphytes in a Lecythis ampla tree in Costa Rica.

Cardelùs remembers the first time she climbed a tree and realized the vastness of the epiphyte community.

Every summer during the study, which concluded in 2014, Cardelùs, Woods and a team of students spent countless hours suspended in midair, cataloging and sampling hundreds of epiphytes and the canopy soil they grow in.

The tree limb she's straddling is thick with epiphytes — plants that grow on other plants — and they're the reason she's come to this dizzying study site at the La Selva Biological Station in northern Costa Rica.

These epiphytes form hollow tubers, known as domatia, with preformed entrance holes, which give access to a network of galleries that provide the ants with protected nesting space.

Fucus suffered from both, thermal stress and intensified overgrowth by epiphytes.

Scientists climbed several rare and endangered tree species on Penang Hill to document the orchids, ferns, and epiphytes (or air plants) thriving at such heights and to press leaf samples for further study.

Givnish says it's difficult to disentangle the effect of mountain - climbing from tree - climbing, because the vast majority of mountain species are also epiphytes.

This past November researchers published the first orchid genome, for the tropical epiphyte Phalaenopsis equestris.

Shorthand and turfiest Jude size of their brigaded epiphytes and count dating op bonaire forward.

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Next, hike the Escalonia Cloud Forest Trail, home to epiphytes, orchids, ferns and tropical hummingbirds.

Set atop a small hill and with spectacular views across the forest to Thornton Peak and the Alexander Range, The Epiphyte is just minutes away from tranquil beaches, boardwalks an...

The Epiphyte B & B is a boutique accommodation house in the Daintree World Heritage rainforest, 2 hours north of Cairns.

Seagrass beds are huge feeding grounds, and chances are that you will come upon huge sting rays feeding on the bottom, and schools of parrot fish and hogfish grazing on epiphytes growing on the seagrass.

This is a boardwalk with plenty of time for photographs of the 600 -800-year-old epiphyte.

Banana trees mix in with the pines, epiphytes and corn fields.

Palms, ferns orchids, vines, epiphytes and stunningly beautiful butterflies are just some examples.

You will also see the tall emergent trees, delicate orchids, and the bromeliads and other epiphytes clinging to the branches.

Hermes, the Epiphytes, installation view, 2014, cut paper, ink, colored pencil, monoprint, intaglio, woodcut, screen print on paper, dimensions variable.

This essay is part of her current larger curatorial research «Radicants, Radicals, Epiphytes and Parasites» (made possible by the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts and the Mondriaan Fund).

Meanwhile the same shapes and materials proliferate like epiphytes in Westra's black - and - white, analogue images.

Bromeliads are epiphytes that require minimal roots and naturally grow in trees.

Visa Europe Collab walked us through the bitcoin remittances proof - of - concept prototype they built with the startup Epiphyte.

Visa Europe Collab's Jon Downing and Epiphyte's Edan Yago discussed the reasons for embarking on the project, and for using the bitcoin blockchain instead of a closed network, in this CoinDesk exclusive.

Luno was selected to join the FCA's regulatory sandbox in November 2016 alongside several other Bitcoin and blockchain startups, including SETL, Epiphyte and Nivaura.

Epiphyte's solution avoids traditional money movement avenues and instead converts currency to bitcoin, moves the coins, then cashes them out on the other end in the local tender.

Presentations from: Nasdaq, Guardtime, Epiphyte & Europol.

So, the conference will involve US speaker Edan Yago, CEO at Epiphyte.

Edan Yago is CEO and founder of Epiphyte, a startup performing FX funds settlement on the bitcoin blockchain for financial institutions.

It is an epiphyte, or air plant.