Sentences with phrase «duff layer»

And without the duff layer, some animals lack a place to live.

The earthworms eat away at the puffy duff layer blanketing the forest floor, where species such as salamanders and ovenbirds live, Resner reported Sunday (Oct. 27) at the Geological Society of America's annual meeting.

Not exact matches

Wildfires burn up Alaskan spruce forests, the spongy organic «duff» layer at their base, and sometimes expose the carbon - rich permafrost beneath that layer to potential thaw.

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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.