Sentences with phrase «decreases plant quality»

The model shows that climate change that significantly decreases plant quality grants a competitive advantage to larger invertebrate herbivores, such as grasshoppers, ants and other insects, which are able to convert the foliage to energy more efficiently than smaller herbivores.
A new study shows that climate change that significantly decreases plant quality grants a competitive advantage to larger invertebrate herbivores, such as grasshoppers, who can convert the foliage to energy more efficiently than smaller herbivores.

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In addition to leading the way for other brands to begin removing toxins from their products, this shift could likely impact the global supply market in upcoming years, increasing the availability (and decreasing the cost) of higher quality plant - based ingredients or safer chemicals that could be used in personal care products across markets.
Planting perennial crops such as switchgrass near creeks increased greenhouse gas mitigation, water quality, beneficial insects and energy production, though it decreased total net income of farms in the study area by roughly $ 30 million.
The economic ills resulting from low - grade fertilizers are not confined to the matter of fillers, but include distribution charges, since freight is charged against gross weight, not quality, and, therefore, increases progressively as plant - food content decreases.
Implementing those regulations along with other EPA regulations — such as the utility MACT rule, Cross State Air Pollution rule, coal ash regulations, and national ambient air quality standards — would make building a new coal plant extremely difficult, while significantly decreasing the lifespan of existing plants.
Data suggest that quality of food is decreasing if you don't take special care of a plant in a high CO2 level world.
Our work has shown that reflective roofs can lead to better air quality, reduce the strain on our electrical grid, improve comfort and decrease emissions from power plants.
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