Sentences with phrase «dead leaves littering»

Eventually though, the cooler weather and changing leaves (granted I live in the South and the fall foliage pretty much goes from green, to yellow, to a muddy brown and then boom — dead leaves littering my still uncovered pool) win me over and I start thinking about cinnamon, nutmeg, and yes — pumpkin.

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

Not exact matches

That we age and leave behind this litter of dead, unrecoverable selves is both unbearable and the commonest thing in the world — it happens to everybody.

In one of the few such studies, scientists examined how dead leaves, roots, and other plant litter decay over a decade.

[Lucas Nell:] «sometimes thousands of birds will abandon their nests, and just leave, and there's littered remains of dead chicks and eggs that have been eaten.»

And when an invasion occurs, «sometimes thousands of birds will abandon their nests, and just leave, and there's littered remains of dead chicks and eggs that have been eaten.»

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).

«What most interested me was how these earthworms would change the forest floor, especially the litter layer on top of the soil — dead leaves and twigs and other materials,» says Qiu.

A pile of dead wood, leaf litter and soil might look like garden waste to us.

In 19 zany poems, including rhyme, free verse, sonnet, tanka, and clerihew, Bulion introduces a variety of the brown food web's decomposers that live in the leaf litter layer, also called the duff, and how they turn dead organic matter into nutrients for plants.

Dead leafs are a group of small chameleons that break all the rules that chameleons in general have set up: they are leaf litter dwellers, have no prehensile tails and don't change colors.

The first stage in restoring the ring reef around the entire island was started in 2008 and protecting its lovely beaches without concrete, dead coral walls, or plastic mesh bags pumped full of sand, which invariably disintegrate, rip, and leave plastic debris littering the sand.

After the brilliant naval missions in Assassin's Creed III were so well - received, the teams at Ubisoft Montreal left Boston harbor and the Revolutionary War era, and set sail for a Pirate - plagued Caribbean of 1715 — a time when legends like Blackbeard gained infamy for plundering, pillaging, and littering islands with buried chests and dead bodies.

Littered with «Would You Kindly», «Resident Rising 4», and even a «Left 4 Dead» mention the game just doesn't quit.

«Decaying matter (dead wood and leaf litter) is processed so efficiently because of the abundance of decomposers including bacteria, fungi, and termites.»