Sentences with phrase «for terrestrial plants»

Soil water is perhaps the most precious resource of the Earth because if it becomes destroyed or disappear there will be neither food nor water for terrestrial plants and animals like people.

Since the sea for seaweed is like the soil for terrestrial plants the seaweed will absorb what is in the water may it be good or bad.

Such connections would be much harder to detect from space for terrestrial plant biomass.»

Not exact matches

Other researchers have shown that some terrestrial plants make compounds that inhibit reproduction in herbivores, but «this type of interaction was not known for marine environments,» says Ianora.

The floral turnover may have affected terrestrial vertebrate communities as the loss of wetland habitat space and an increase in arid climate adapted plants may have dwindled the supply of palatable vegetation for herbivores.

The government is counting its chickens before they are hatched, says Fernando Valladares, a plant ecologist at the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid who is president of the Spanish Association for Terrestrial Ecology and who, with other scientists, critically analyzed the draft strategy.

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«For 20 million years, from the early Neogene approximately 23 million years ago until the Pleistocene started around 2 million years ago, this rule applied: The larger the amount of biomass produced by plants, the higher the diversity of terrestrial mammals that evolved.

For more than 20 million years, the ups and downs of diversity in terrestrial large mammals were determined by primary production, i.e. net production of plant biomass.

«Our results show the ancestor of land plants was alive in the middle Cambrian Period, which was similar to the age for the first known terrestrial animals,» said co-lead author Mark Puttick from the University of Bristol in the statement.

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CO2 that goes into the atmosphere does not stay there, but continuously recycled by terrestrial plant life and earth's oceans — the great retirement home for most terrestrial carbon dioxide.

Its purpose is to provide global, collection - based occurrence and taxonomic data for marine and terrestrial animals and plants of any geological age, as well as web - based software for statistical analysis of the data.

But there's more for «Mission to Earth» geeks (I count myself as one) over at the Earth Observatory Web site, where SeaWiFS merits the «Image of the Day» — a view of Earth showing the averaged chlorophyll concentration in the oceans from 1998 through 2010 (and of course showing all that glorious green terrestrial plant life, too):

Unlike terrestrial plants that can stick around for hundreds of years, these tiny greens have quick turnover rates.

Carnegie Institution for Science divides its endeavors into the following departments; Embryology, Geophysical lab, Global Ecology, Observatories, Plant Biology and Terrestrial Magnetism.

Terrestrial palaeoclimate reconstructions based on botanical proxies (pollen and seed productivity, stomatal frequency) do not account for plant physiological response to low atmospheric CO2 levels.

Appendix I is presented to show that the relevant depositional temperature for terrestrial air CO2 snow is 133K, an achievable chilled temperature for the deposition plant.

Terrestrial Energy USA has been invited by US DOE to submit part II of its application for loan guarantee support to license and build a 190MW (E) IMSR power plant

With respect to all land plants, for example, satellite - based studies reveal net terrestrial primary productivity has increased by 6 — 13 % since the 1980s.

Oceanic methane releases could account for the magnitude of C - 12, while terrestrial sources seem unlikely: «To cause this type of global isotopic shift, you'd have to take all terrestrial plants and burn them into carbon dioxide,» Kessler says in the June 11 edition of Science.

To assess exposure of different terrestrial ecosystems to projected changes in climate suitability (Fig 4), we calculated the mean and frequency distribution of changes in suitable plant growing days (Fig 2A — 2C and 2G) for cells dominated by each of 14 land - cover types.

The unprecedented rate and number of climate variables becoming limiting for plant growth could challenge the capacity of species to adapt, with the potential to negatively impact terrestrial ecosystems and trigger climate feedbacks.

We used the rate at which terrestrial vegetative matter is produced (NPP) as a proxy for plant growth.