Sentences with phrase «from decaying vegetation»

This water is also brown in color due to the tannic acid which is given off from the decaying vegetation which has fallen into the blue hole.

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Since its closure a decade ago, the park's family - friendly attractions have been left to decay, from a stagnant tea - cup ride that's being swallowed by vegetation to an empty pink castle that's crumbling into disarray.

Temperate peatlands, like those in the northern United States and Canada, sport scrubbier vegetation and are made mostly from decayed sphagnum moss.

According to the researcher's estimates, the majority of these emissions come from the respiration of the roots and the fall and decay of the semi-aquatic vegetation in the flood plains.

The apparent lushness existed only because the vegetation was so good at sucking up every speck of nutrient released from decaying leaves.

The precursors of acid rain formation result from both natural sources, such as volcanoes and decaying vegetation, and human - made sources, primarily emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide resulting from fossil fuel combustion.

Dogs become exposed to the bacteria from decayed matter or vegetation in soil.

Taking cues from the fruit and flower portraits of Italian Renaissance painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo and vanitas paintings depicting decaying plants and vegetation, Jiang's forms portray plants realistically.

The resolution of the sponges is 2 - 4 years and the accuracy of the measurements is good enough to detect an addition of 4 GtC from the oceans or 1 GtC from vegetation decay.

If all came from vegetation decay (very unlikely, except from war, but that means about 1 / 5th of all land vegetation!)

The Arctic sea floor contains a rich, decayed layer of vegetation from earlier eras when the continental shelf was not underwater.

As there is no differentiation in type for the inflows and outflows, also 22 % of the red CO2 is exchanged by natural, colourless CO2, from the deep oceans (we forget for a moment that some of it returns in another season from the ocean surface layer and vegetation decay).

Surprisingly, researchers from the Universities of Exeter, Sussex, and Sheffield found that most of the methane that is released comes from decay of the new vegetation from the recently thawed top layers.

The same for plants: increased uptake (but no reaction from vegetation decay).

Vegetation goes the opposite way: large CO2 uptake in summer (including ocean algues) and continuous release of CO2 during the year from vegetation decay (without uptake in winter from leafleVegetation goes the opposite way: large CO2 uptake in summer (including ocean algues) and continuous release of CO2 during the year from vegetation decay (without uptake in winter from leaflevegetation decay (without uptake in winter from leafless trees).