Sentences with phrase «by availability of nutrients»

Regions of the world where large increases in plant growth are expected are likely to be most limited by availability of nutrients, Wieder says.

The idea that productivity is limited by the availability of nutrients is based mainly on studies in surface waters.

Not exact matches

Tomatoes are one of the few foods that have more nutrient availability after they are cooked or processed in some way (and by processed I don't mean concentrated, mixed with sugar and called ketchup).

By cross-referencing these impacts with data on local elephant populations, forest tree - species composition and structure, nutrient availability, and understory growth in existing Central African forests — both protected and unprotected ones alike — Poulsen and his team determined that up to 96 percent of all forests in the region were susceptible to dramatic changes if elephant populations shrank or disappeared.

In fact, it can help them by increasing the availability of certain nutrients.

And, unfortunately, the microbes» speed is limited not by the availability of oil — or even its droplet size, which is why chemical dispersants have been used to break up the oil into microbe - friendly globules — but by the availability of various nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus that wash into the ocean via rivers carrying sediments from the continents.

The study was performed in Kilpisjärvi in northwest Finland, where the research team tested the importance of grazing animals, warming and nutrient availability by combining small greenhouses that increased the summer temperature by 1 - 2 degrees Celsius, small fences that excluded reindeer, voles and lemmings, as well as by use of fertilization.

His research team envisions a series of interacting processes, or feedbacks, that maintained oxygen at very low levels principally by modulating the availability of life - sustaining nutrients in the ocean and thus oxygen - producing photosynthetic activity.

In their upcoming second Ecological Restoration publication titled «Resurgence of Native Plants After Removal of Amur honeysuckle from Bender Mountain Preserve,» Conover and Sisson reveal the lengths to which honeysuckle alters habitats by decreasing light availability and depleting soil moisture and nutrients, as well as by possibly releasing toxic chemicals that prevent other plant species from growing in the vicinity.

Since many of the genes containing «fragile» nucleosomes are controlled in a continuous manner by nutrient availability, modulation of promoter nucleosome stability may be a strategy used to coordinate growth - related transcription on a genome - wide level.

«We started at the mTORC1 kinase and are building the pathway up piece by piece to identify who is talking to whom in the pathway and to understand how each of those proteins is relaying information about the availability of nutrients in the cell.»

The mechanics of this sugar coating and its subsequent chemical signaling is likely dictated by basic factors like nutrient availability and metabolism — things with implications for diet and genetic makeup, for example, Paszek said.

In this study we combined results from various in - situ mesocosm studies in two different ocean regions (Arctic and temperate waters) to reveal general patterns of plankton community shifts in response to OA and how these changes are modulated by inorganic nutrient availability.

This work is part of a newly funded U.S. Department of Energy / Department of Agriculture project led by the University of Missouri, Columbia to explore the biology of a single plant cell type, while gaining novel insight into the impacts of temperature and water availability on a crucial root cell necessary for nutrient uptake.

The Foundation seeks to establish a laboratory to test nutrient content of foods, particularly butter produced under various conditions; to conduct research into the «X Factor,» discovered by Dr. Price; and to determine the effects of traditional preparation methods on nutrient content and availability in whole foods.

If you'd like to get a jump on learning how to properly and traditionally prepare your grains by soaking, sprouting, or sour leavening so that you can digest them easily and enjoy them again, click here to check out my hand written and illustrated chart, Preparing Beans and Whole Grains for Ease of Digestion and Nutrient Availability on my website, www.simplybeingwell.com

Increase the availability of the nutrients in turmeric by using it with black pepper.

Bottom - up processes are generally driven by the abiotic conditions required for primary producers to grow, such as availability of light and nutrients, and the subsequent transfer of energy to consumers at higher trophic levels.

Models also differ significantly in the degree of CO2 fertilisation they allow, and the extent to which CO2 responses are constrained by nutrient availability; the extent to which CO2 concentrations affect the global distribution of C3 and C4 photosynthetic pathways; and the impacts of climate, CO2 and land management on the tree - grass balance.

Plant growth in natural systems may be constrained by a shortage of soil nutrients despite the greater availability of carbon dioxide.

Projected changes in physical and biogeochemical drivers such as temperature, CO2 content and acidification, oxygen levels, the availability of nutrients, and the amount of ocean covered by ice, will affect marine life.

However, current understanding suggests that, unless substantial ocean circulation changes occur, plankton growth remains roughly unchanged because it is limited mostly by environmental factors, such as nutrients and light, and not by the availability of inorganic carbon it does not contribute significantly to the ocean uptake of anthropogenic CO2.

As is confirmed by long - term experiments, plants with exhorbitant supplies of CO2 run up against limited availability of other nutrients.

· Changes in circulation and vertical mixing will influence nutrient availability and primary productivity, affecting the efficiency of carbon dioxide uptake by the oceans.

It is limited by the availability of light, water and nutrients.

Plant growth, including trees is governed by many things including the availability of CO2, water and other nutrients.

The rate at which CO2 is taken up by plants, soil and oceans varies considerably depending on factors such as temperature and the availability of nutrients.