Sentences with phrase «decaying plant life»

Under normal conditions, decaying plant life inevitably decomposes, a process that releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Not exact matches

Organic matter — the decaying remains of once - living plants and animals — becomes trapped by the roots of aquatic plants.

Otaki and colleagues collected leaves 16 to 20 months after the accident, after short - lived radioactive contamination had decayed, but this time from locations ranging from 59 to 1760 kilometers from the power plant; contamination levels ranged from 161 to 0.2 Bq / kg.

Members of this group are usually found on underwater decaying plant or animal matter, but Bd is different — it feeds on the skin of living amphibians, primarily frogs.

Using only natural light, she then started to photograph vegetables and roots whose tendrils, reaching for the sun, expressed all of life's striving and aspiration, and finally, the maturing plant, evoking the inevitable downward spiral into decay.

Within the context of her practice, this offers a gentle parallel to the life cycles of plants, moving from the tug of decay toward the possibility of regeneration.

Each artist will address the theme utilizing locally available natural materials (salt, wood, dirt, plant - life, etc.) or natural elements and processes (wind, fire, water, decay, evaporation, erosion, etc.) in a temporary installation.

What keeps soils alive, and productive, is the compost or humus of leaf litter, animal dung, withered roots and other decaying vegetation in the first metre or so of topsoil: this in turn feeds an invisible army of tiny creatures that recycle the nutrient elements for the next generation of plant life.

Then, after death, it affects the microbes that feed on plant decay, as it affected partner microbes during plant life.

Much more of the miracle molecule came from volcanoes and subsea vents, forest fires, biofuel use, decaying plants and animals, and «exhaust» from living, breathing animals and humans.

Biomass means living creatures, plants and microbes and animals, and the organic materials that are left behind when the creatures die and decay.

What percentage of the remaining hydrocarbons is in decaying organic matter versus living plants?

This energy from the sun is being used by plants constantly recycling themselves in birth, growth and decay and in feeding all the non-plant carbon life forms which are also constantly recycling in birth, growth, decay — the energy from the sun is being utilised in work in every aspect of growth and movement within the Carbon Life Cycle — on land and in the life forms which are also constantly recycling in birth, growth, decay — the energy from the sun is being utilised in work in every aspect of growth and movement within the Carbon Life Cycle — on land and in the Life Cycle — on land and in the sea.

Simply speaking, volcanoes helped form the atmosphere while living organisms have helped shape the atmosphere to their liking in two ways: firstly by warming the planet to a liveable temperature by producing methane and carbon dioxide during the process of decay of dead matter, and secondly by creating oxygen through the process of photosynthesis by our green friends in the plant kingdom.

It could be coming from the decay of lots of recently living plants and animals.