Sentences with phrase «for plant growth while»

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Letting your baby eat a variety of foods from different food sources (animal and plant) enables them to better meet their high nutrient needs for growth and development while priming their taste buds to accept a variety of nutritious foods.

While essential for plant growth, an over-abundance of this biologically - available nitrogen can result in «nitrogen saturation,» a phenomenon previously reported by Forest Service scientists in Riverside.

Called AmazonFACE (Free - Air Carbon dioxide Enrichment), it's based on a simple idea: For 12 years, researchers will spray pure CO2 into instrumented plots in the rainforest northwest of Manaus, Brazil, raising ambient concentrations to 600 parts per million — a level the world could reach as early as 2050 — all the while taking meticulous measurements to determine how the gas affects the growth of plants.

Zebras walk an unmarked route that takes them to the next best place for grazing, while overhead thundering cloudbursts of late October rains drive new plant growth, filling pockmarks across this largest inland delta in the world.

For instance, while higher temperatures will boost plant growth in cooler regions, in the tropics they may actually impede growth.

Some climate change effects will be beneficial for plant growth (e.g., elevated CO2 concentrations and longer frost - free seasons), while others will be detrimental (e.g., plant damage due to extreme events, increased weed growth, new or expanded pests and diseases).

While seedlings from Plant Gravity Perception will not wind up on astronauts» plates, their studied growth furthers our knowledge of perceptual thresholds and makes selecting appropriate garden greens likely to thrive in space easier for future long duration spaceflight, including exploration missions beyond low - Earth orbit.

This would exclude credit for carbon sequestered during plant growth while also excluding taxes on upstream production - related emissions.

Geothermal plant capacity and utilization, for both power generation and direct heat supply, is increasing, although the pace of growth in power generation has slowed compared to the past, while that of direct heat uses has accelerated.

According to Gray's study, while the growth of coal consumption has slowed, 570 new coal - fired plants are either being built or are planned, and if they go ahead would be responsible for a further 32,000 premature deaths each year.

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I would not have expected this to be the case as the decomposition process involves oxidation reactions that are exponential functions of temperature while the alarmists have been been arguing for years that the plant growth process is limited by, and dependent on, factors other than just temperature.

Reductions in the number of days with suitable climate conditions for plant growth also underscore an internal discrepancy of Earth System Models: while these models project dramatic enhancements of NPP [5,20,36], our results show multiple climate variables becoming limiting for plant growth, particularly in tropical areas, which could result in considerable reductions in future NPP (S4 Fig).

For example, a manufacturing plant built with EB - 5 investment may create new growth opportunities for parts suppliers, while a new EB -5-funded hotel can generate more demand for local restaurants and retail shoFor example, a manufacturing plant built with EB - 5 investment may create new growth opportunities for parts suppliers, while a new EB -5-funded hotel can generate more demand for local restaurants and retail shofor parts suppliers, while a new EB -5-funded hotel can generate more demand for local restaurants and retail shofor local restaurants and retail shops.