Sentences with phrase «by leaf litter»

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Dr Parr has been investigating the potential for soil organic carbon sequestration by bamboo leaf litter in collaboration with researchers from the Fujian Academy of Forestry Sciences in south - east China.

The courthouse steps are littered with the reputations of men and women who were indicted, then vindicated by a jury, only to find that a verdict of innocence left them destitute and broken.

On Sunday it was revealed that his official Facebook page is littered with vile slurs against Jews, left by followers below a message Mr Corbyn posted about meeting Jewish leaders last week.

Trees of such forests yield a continuous supply of stray litter such as leaves, needles, roots or brushwood, and maintain a constant cool «forest climate,» even during hot summers, which in turn slows down humus degradation by soil microorganisms.

On the forest floor, the leaf litter vanishes as it is eaten up by the worms and turned into humus.

«This may impact leaf litter by increasing rates of decomposition or decreasing rates of litter fall.»

«But, because there was so much more leaf litter at deciduous woodland sites, the numbers of insects supported by these streams was at least double that in any other stream type,» he added.

He said: «We've established that earthworms, referred to as «nature's ploughs» by Charles Darwin, have a metabolic coping mechanism to deal with a range of leaf litter diets.

Clockwise from top left i) Plastic bag recorded by an OFOS at the HAUSGARTEN observatory (Arctic) at 2500 m; ii = Litter recovered within the net of a trawl in Blanes open slope at 1500 m during the PROMETO 5 cruise on board the R / V «García del Cid»; iii) Cargo net entangled in a cold - water coral colony at 950 m in Darwin Mound with the ROV «Lynx» (National Oceanography Centre, UK).

Before worms invade, the soil in a typical northern forest is blanketed by a thick layer of leaf litter and other organic material.

Not only does the find indicate that these peculiar lizards independently paralleled snakes by losing their limbs, but that a sturdy skull adapted to burrowing and rooting through the leaf litter preceded the loss of limbs in these lizards.

In addition, the leaves of the seedlings grown with leaf litter from healthy cacao plants showed only half of the damage sustained by plants grown with mixed - leaf litter from the forest floor.

Allaby's team took four core samples of sediments from a section of the site littered with burnt hazelnut shells apparently left by the hunter - gatherers and subjected the samples to both radiocarbon dating and ancient DNA analysis.

According to her, the research included four of the five functionally distinct carbon pools whose study is recommended by the United Nations (UN) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): aboveground biomass (live plants), dead organic matter, leaf litter (layer that contains a combination of fragments of leaves, branches and other decomposing organic matter) and soil (up to 30 centimeters (cm) in depth).

Leaf litter declined by 95 percent in forested study areas, and the Asian worms left behind residue that was almost pebbly in consistency — grainy little balls of dirt that may make it hard for the seeds of native plants to germinate.

By 2009, Kowalski had found what he thought was the sexual form of C. fraxinea: Hymenoscyphus albidus, which produces spores from tiny toadstool - like growths on ash leaf litter (Forest Pathology, DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0239.2008.00589.x).

Fire helps maintain prairie ecosystems by clearing away the dead leaf litter that can build up and crowd out sunlight for new plant shoots.

You can prevent tick bites by avoiding places where ticks live, like wooded and bushy areas with tall grass and leaf litter.

By moderating the driving force within the core narrative and littering the film with sexual metaphors in its place, leaves the film with very little in the way of plot development and it has simply nowhere to go.

From Tarantino's vicious post-modern gunplay to the tragic and self - conscious myth - making of Andrew Dominik's The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, the spirit of Bonnie and Clyde continues to leave a corpse - littered trail through American cinema.

By Tuesday, Pantera would leave the kittens briefly, only to feed herself and use the litter box.

I had the great luck to be chosen by him when he was 5 weeks old, as he left his litter to climb on my lap and fall asleep.

Other things that may be causing your cat to urinate outside their box can include dirty litter boxes, too few litter boxes (you should have more litter boxes than you do cats), litter that is too deep, scented or disliked by your cat, covered litter boxes, litter boxes that allow a cat to see another cat in a different litter box, problems between cats or other pets, household changes (i.e. construction, family members leaving, new family members, etc.) and outside cats and other stressors in and around the house that your cat can see, hear or sense.

Kittens from birth to six weeks: Kittens do best when raised by their mothers and although there are programs in Austin to help orphaned kittens, if you find a litter of healthy, young kittens that are in a safe location like in a yard, the best thing you can do is leave them alone.

Sometimes through urine and feces by shared litter boxes or using the same areas outdoors to leave body waste

Example of this are automatic litter boxes with rakes: the reason for this is because the more cats using the system, the more you will need to manually clean the «missing» pieces of feces left by the machine or caught in the rake.

Triggered by the activity of your cat as she leaves the box, all the models use the raking method on a timer to move the clumped / soiled litter into a receptacle.

Reduce the number of ticks around your home and yard by removing leaf litter and bush / wood piles around your home and yard.

One more odd one is that some cats like to show their superiority by leaving feces on top of the litter in the box.

You can reduce the tick habitat by removing the leaf litter and clearing tall grass and brush.

Make your yard unfriendly to ticks by keeping your grass short, bushes trimmed and minimizing mulch or leaf litter.

Most breeders agree that puppies of this breed should stay with the litter until they're at least 8 to 10 weeks old, as this will give them adequate time for socialization with their brothers and sisters and will ensure that they're fully weaned by the time they leave their mother.

Sometimes your dog just can not resist the «treats» left by the cat in their litter.

You aren't the only one who doesn't like the smell of a dirty litter box — and you have the option of getting away from it by leaving the room.

Mostly it is a female being bred to a male who is owned by a friend and then the profits are split... The chances of these puppies being spayed or neutered before leaving their parents is incredibly small, so most of the puppies will end up having litters of their own... and the vicious circle continues...

Most of the more than 200 Central Florida pets left homeless by February's deadly tornadoes have been reunited with their owners or taken in by new families.For shelter operators who worked around the clock for days to tend to stranded and injured pets, the task now is to place the 17 dogs and cats remaining from Orange, Osceola and Seminole, the hardest - hit counties.In the days after the storms, dogs with puppies, cats with litters on the way, even parakeets and guinea pigs were rescued by strangers or turned in by owners who didn't have a place for themselves, let alone their pets.

Tick populations around your home can be controlled by trimming brush, keeping grass mowed short, and removing leaf litter in your yard to remove tick habitats.

On the upside, if you litter train your dog, you can leave him or her alone while you are at work, you do not have to take him or her outside during bad weather and your schedule will not be interrupted by having to take the dog outside.

Once a litter of pups is born, they're quickly shipped off to stores and their parents are left to repeat the cycle fueled by the profits from their offspring.

It's dark when I get up at 6 am, the first hint of a new day on the horizon; the forest floor has turned gold and green as the cedars shed their summer cloak; honeysuckle leaves litter the boardwalks and garden ground; bright red honeysuckle berries are being plucked by tiny wrens; jays are sitting in the apple tree, feasting on the fruit we imagined as apple pie; the last roses are fading; fronds of great bull kelp are landing on the beach, food for next year's garden; the sudden daybreak howl of sporty boats heading to the hot fishing spots where we have our hydrophones has gone; sea lions are beginning to heave their huge bodies onto haul - out rocks along the way; most of our assistants have left, heading back to school or home; and in their absence we are spending more time in the lab at night, recording the voices of the orcas, who are still here.

Initially we thought they were finding food debris left by campers, but the more we watched the more it became apparent that the island foxes were licking something on the leaf litter.

IMO there should be a «ring fenced» arrangement to ensure thqt we are not left with landscapes spoilt by end of life industrial litter.

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Insects survive the winter by clustering underneath leaf litter that's been there all winter long.»