Sentences with phrase «for bare soil»

Parsley: Growing parsley around pepper plants not only helps you get a second edible from almost the same amount of space, but also serves to provide some shade and cover for bare soil.

Not exact matches

It took Asner and his team eight years to develop a technique that can detect and quantify selective logging by analyzing each pixel in the image for spectral data — which contains information about the extent of vegetation in the forest canopy, the amount of debris on the forest floor and how much bare soil is exposed — while also taking into consideration climate conditions.

In places where the ground is bare — from overgrazing or from the common practice of leaving fields unplanted for part of the year — photosynthesis stops, and so does the storage of carbon in the soil.

Gentine's team is the first to isolate the response of vegetation from the global warming total complex response, which includes such variables for the water cycle as evapotranspiration (the water evaporated from the surface, both from plants and bare soil) soil moisture, and runoff.

By replacing vegetative cover's moist soil, which contributes water vapor to the atmosphere to help generate rainfall, with bare, shiny desert soil that merely reflects sunlight directly back into space, the capacity for rainfall is diminished.

33 Lack of exposure of bare skin to sunshine is not the only biological consequence of modern life for which we must compensate; we must also return to the nutrient - rich foods on which our ancestors thrived and of which modernity has disposed: the fats and organs of animals raised on the pasture of mineral - rich soil, foods preserved by traditional fermentation rather than modern refrigeration, and the mineral - rich gifts of the oceans in which life originated.

Soil moisture in ERA5 also benefits from other documented changes, including enhanced evaporation over bare soil, the introduction of seasonality for vegetation and a new snow hydrolSoil moisture in ERA5 also benefits from other documented changes, including enhanced evaporation over bare soil, the introduction of seasonality for vegetation and a new snow hydrolsoil, the introduction of seasonality for vegetation and a new snow hydrology.

Oregano: Due to its shorter stature, oregano grows well around peppers without competing for space, covers bare soil, and is a great complement to many dishes that also include peppers.