Sentences with phrase «during land plant»

In the past we have used diverse taxa including mosses, lycophytes, ferns and seed plants to investigate how developmental mechanisms were modified during land plant evolution.

Marchantia is a novel emerging plant model species and will be used together with Arabidopsis in this project to investigate and compare the interactions of ROXY proteins with transcription factors and their nuclear activities during land plant evolution.

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In warmer lands, such as tropical, subtropical and arid lands, deciduous plants may lose their leaves during dry seasons or during times when there are changes in rainfall.

According to Angbazo, the army will cooperate with state governments and ministries of agriculture to assist in land clearing for planting during the planting season.

During his Peconic Landing appearance and at a recent Village Board meeting, the mayor made the case for his re-election, saying his administration has made substantial progress on upgrading its waste water treatment plant and is about to embark on upgrades to the electric department.

Although about 2 petagrams go into the oceans, another 1.1 to 2.2 petagrams — the missing sink — appears to vanish into the land, likely taken up by plants during photosynthesis.

During ice ages, glaciers scour and cover large swaths of land, wiping out plant communities for millennia.

The apparent rise in evapotranspiration — the process by which water is transferred from the land to the atmosphere by evaporation from plants and soil — is increasing potential drought risk with rising temperature trends, especially during periodic drought cycles that have been linked with strong El Nino events.

A farmer had intended to clear a few hectares of land to plant coffee bushes, but the fire — set during an unusually hot, dry spell — quickly got out of hand.

All the analyses indicate that land plants first appeared about 500 million years ago, during the Cambrian period, when the development of multicellular animal species took off.

[7][8][9] The spread of land plants is thought to have reduced CO2 concentrations during the late Devonian, and plant activities as both sources and sinks of CO2 have since been important in providing stabilizing feedbacks.

«We can look to land plants as the primary buffering agent that's held CO2 in such a narrow range during this time.»

Further Chinese growth is in prospect following the announcement during the Guangzhou Auto Show of the Phase II capacity expansion project at the Chery Jaguar Land Rover plant in Changshu, which will increase manufacturing capacity by 70,000 vehicles, an increase of more than 50 %.

The author is a former member of the British armed forces, well qualified to describe the conditions in that small country where, during three decades in the 1970s, hostile political groups planted thousands of land mines that have victimized the native population to the present day.

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The first European to land on the shores of Cleveland Bay was Allan Cunningham, a botanist who named many plants and trees from the region, during Philip Parker King's survey cruise of the Australian coast in 1819.

The third map is Climate which takes place in the new Gardens of Babylon where the plants are lively and water influxes to create deadly pockets of land come into play during matches.

Here, they remove the trees, burn the land, let grass grow, put on too many cows which tear out the grasses by their roots, the topsoil washes away, they plant cacti, and during droughts, these too die, leaving rocky desolation, and no further way for the inhabitants to make a living.

Relying heavily on biofuels made from food crops — such as soybeans, sugar cane, or canola — would not only affect food supplies and increase food prices, but would produce significant greenhouse gases during the planting and harvesting of these crops, as well as from forest clearing for more agricultural land.

During many flights over california, not one standard large wind turbine has been seen in any city, and whilst most californians would object to a square mile of pristine desert land being devoted to nuclear power plants and used fuel storage areas, many square miles are being proposed for solar mirrors.

For each source, it approximates the land used during resource production, by energy plants, for transport and transmission, and to store waste materials.

Linden / Giessen is where one of the main series of the late Ernst Beck's 1942 «peak» in CO2 was based on: Further, land plants as usual grow on land, where CO2 levels are average 40 ppmv higher than background and even higher during inversion, giving at least a few hours of sufficient CO2 during ice ages.

[62][63][64] The spread of land plants is thought to have reduced CO2 concentrations during the late Devonian, and plant activities as both sources and sinks of CO2 have since been important in providing stabilising feedbacks.