Sentences with phrase «forest litter»

Instead, dry forest litter likely sparked wildfires like the ones forests had evolved with.

Many other forest creatures depend on forest litter for their survival.

We may see poison - dart frogs, eyelash vipers and sloths in forests littered with Pre-Colombian Indian artefacts.

Evidence suggests that the Indians, through the burning of remnants of logs, branches, weeds, crop remains, felled secondary growth vegetation, near - by forest litter, and cut material brought to the fields along with kitchen - fire carbon and ash from the houses, modified the fertility of their soils.

Set in a dark forest littered...

Their business objective is to connect producers of biochar soil amendment, which is made from forest litter and other timber waste, with farmers who can use the product to boost production and save water.

«The most likely explanation is that the earthworms consume organic matter in forest litter,» suggests Line Lapointe, a professor at Université Laval's Faculty of Science and Engineering and the study's lead author.

Available rocks, logs or forest litter are spread to provide habitat for local fauna.

This final number lies below earlier estimates from atmospheric tests and above land - based figures, which did not take into account such carbon sinks as woody debris, forest litter and soil.

The worms can reduce ground - nesting birds, insects, amphibians and fungi whose lives are intertwined with the forest litter.

This prevents smaller fires from burning underbrush and forest litter.

Board the steamy local bus to explore Manuel Antonio, and spot agoutis browsing the forest litter, iguanas sunning themselves, and white - faced capuchin monkeys grooming each other in the trees near the busy beach.