Sentences with phrase «in decaying plant»

The sometimes - latent disease can kill vineyards, stress mature vines and persist in soil and in decaying plant matter for years.

Not exact matches

In the tropics, where swamp forests are filled with large, leafy trees, blankets of peat are typically built up by decayed woody plants.

If tobacco growers are using fertilizer on their plants, it obviously works, even though it is made from uranium - rich phosphate rock and results in polonium 210 — a decay product of uranium — being inhaled with cigarette smoke.

In forest ecosystems, cockroaches are known as important decomposers that consume dead and decaying plants.

«Together these studies tell a story about how mushroom - forming fungi evolved a complex mechanism for breakdown of plant cell walls in «white rot» and then cast it aside following the evolution of mycorrhizal associations, as well as the alternative decay mechanism of «brown rot,»» Hibbett said.

In one of the few such studies, scientists examined how dead leaves, roots, and other plant litter decay over a decade.

Located almost half a mile underground at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, protected from cosmic radiation, the sensitive EXO experiment uses 200 kilograms of enriched liquid xenon that could potentially undergo the sought - after decay.

To find them look under stones, decaying wood, old leaves, in gardens in the soil near plants, and along house foundations and basements.

«A heavy reliance on certain plant foods well before people started to rely on cultivated plants could, in certain circumstances, lead to significant [tooth decay] levels,» says Marijke van der Veen of the University of Leicester, UK.

In the winter, however, there is a release of carbon from decaying plants.

While plant litter makes up by far the largest percentage of organic material on Earth's surface, decaying mammals are an important contributor in biological nutrient cycling.

For example, the plasmas used in laboratories and nuclear fusion plants decay within milliseconds of the power being switched off.

Arctic and boreal ecosystems carry about one - third of total global soil carbon, where plant matter takes a long time to decay in the cold weather.

Radium, a potent carcinogen, is among the most dangerous of these metals because it gives off radon gas, accumulates in plants and vegetables and takes 1,600 years to decay.

Possibilities include environmental toxins linked to crops or to plant decay by - products (e.g., bacterial / fungal toxins), as well as a combination of the former with agricultural practices, atmospheric chemistry, and an idiosyncratic immune reaction in genetically susceptible children (28, 29).

Humus is dark, organic material that forms in soil when plant and animal matter decays.

In these environments, organic material from plants and other sources slowly decays with the help of microorganisms called Archaea, releasing methane (CH4) into the atmosphere [Schuur et al., 2015].

«If you spray a (non-GM) plant with pesticide or a herbicide, you're not allowed to harvest it and market it for a certain period of time to give the chemical time to decay, (but with pesticide - resistant GM crops) there's no withholding period... and the pesticide is in every cell of the plant, so you eat it.»

With unemployment so high, and perhaps worsening, it is difficult to invest in new plant and equipment, but easy to build up excess liquid assets as protection against further decay.

This should be perfectly safe for most healthy dogs and cats to be exposed to, but as stated in the former review, try not to let them eat the decaying plant matter.

In our decaying world where soils devoid of nutrients are producing plants and animals with vitamin and mineral deficiencies, we must realize the solution is NOT to fill the gap with synthetics, but rather seek out whole food sources.

ANYA GALLACCIO / DOUG AND MIKE STARN The charming Gallaccio, a sweet contemporary of the sour Young British Artists, continues to mix up nature and artifice, with cast - bronze, silver - berried branches; a gilded bronze potato plant; actual gerbera daisies smushed and decaying between panes of glass set in antique doors; and draped fishnets made of gold lamé.

Though they may seem fixed, the resulting constructions change as the plants decay, alluding to Norton's interest in transformation and the passage of time.

Selected group exhi ¬ bi ¬ tions include Tools for Conviviality, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto (2012); Phantasmagoria, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver (2012); Ray - mond Boisjoly, Jordy Hamil ¬ ton, Laura Piasta: Stud ¬ ies in Decay, Or Gallery, Van ¬ cou ¬ ver (2012); House Sys ¬ tems: Fort Club, The Hedreen Gallery at Seat ¬ tle Uni ¬ ver ¬ sity, Seat ¬ tle (2010); and How Soon Is Now, Van ¬ cou ¬ ver Art Gallery (2009).

Each artist will address the theme utilizing locally available natural materials (salt, wood, dirt, plant - life, etc.) or natural elements and processes (wind, fire, water, decay, evaporation, erosion, etc.) in a temporary installation.

Approximately 90 billion tons come from biologic activity in earth's oceans and another 90 billion tons from such sources as volcanoes and decaying land plants.

So it is quite likely that plant photosynthesis (including that happening in the ocean from phytoplankton) could well be constrained by CO2 concentration at 280 ppmv, with a slightly higher input from animal respiration plus emissions from the Earth's interior balancing out the natural decay rate.

Was this «decay rate» offset in the past by slightly higher animal respiration than plant photosynthesis, plus unknown CO2 emissions from submarine volcanoes and fissures in Earth's crust?

Something similar for vegetation: increased temperatures will increase plant growth (but at the same time plant decay), which will give a short time extra growth, besides a long time shift in total growth area.

But once that is established, plant growth and decay will be in equilibrium too.

OK, so both C12 and C13 are stable and they are looking for a «plant» signature in burned fuel, not a decay signature.

They are twice the change, and they are the only major positive contribution, when natural processes are netted in the sense that transfer across the ocean / atmosphere boundary is netted and growth and decay of plants is netted.

The researchers identify six ways in which biochar curbs emissions, including reducing methane production from decaying plant waste, reducing nitrous oxide release from soils, and avoiding carbon dioxide emissions by storing carbon in the soil.

The seasonal cycle of plant growth and decay in the Northern Hemisphere causes the dips and peaks in the line.

Geothermal plants send water down holes to bring to the surface the heat from natural radioactive decay deep in the mantle.

In high - latitude areas like Alaska, frozen ground known as permafrost can trap large amounts of carbon dioxide and methane produced by layers of decayed plant and animal matter.

Stored in fossil fuels (decayed plants), such as oil, natural gas, and coal Limited amounts of these fossils fuels b / c formed over hundreds of millions of years.

«A potentially very large Arctic source of methane to the atmosphere is the decay of organic matter in the form of dead plant, animal and microbial remains that have been frozen in shallow permafrost for tens of thousands of years,» it said.

Terrestrial ecosystems, such as the Arctic tundra and Amazon rainforest, contain a huge amount of carbon in organic matter such as decaying plant material.

Here's Merriam Webster's version: Main Entry: carbon dioxide Function: noun: a heavy colorless gas CO 2 that does not support combustion, dissolves in water to form carbonic acid, is formed especially in animal respiration and in the decay or combustion of animal and vegetable matter, is absorbed from the air by plants in photosynthesis, and is used in the carbonation of beverages I know you'll all correct me if i'm wrong in stating if CO2 has no scientific facts supporting global warming based upon a factor of greenhouse gases (as opposed to solar radiation in another post, which would be defined by variations in earth, space, or similar factors), then where does science determine that CO2 «disolves in water to form carbonic acid» and is «absorbed from the air by plants in photosythesis»?

What keeps soils alive, and productive, is the compost or humus of leaf litter, animal dung, withered roots and other decaying vegetation in the first metre or so of topsoil: this in turn feeds an invisible army of tiny creatures that recycle the nutrient elements for the next generation of plant life.

In the long - term cycle, carbon from plants and animals is buried and decays gradually into compounds like oil and coal.

Let «X» be: Undersea volcanism; Outgassing of the Tundra; Decay in the rainforests; Coal plants in China (see, that matches the increase — the rest of the world gets off scott free!)

Formed millions of years ago from decaying animals and plants that heat and pressure built into thick layers, natural gas is found in sedimentary basins throughout the world.

One can imagine that more plant decay, as good as fossil fuel burning (at -24 per mil for coal and oil to -40 per mil for natural gas) will lower the d13C level in the atmosphere.

Every year, during the Northern Hemisphere growing season, plants and other organisms inhale some 120 billion tons of carbon from the atmosphere, then exhale nearly the same amount as they decay in the winter.

In fall and winter, the decay of land plants returns that CO2 to the air, all part of a notable annual cycle in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentratioIn fall and winter, the decay of land plants returns that CO2 to the air, all part of a notable annual cycle in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentratioin atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration:

I also don't know how encyclopedias can print as fact that 95 % of CO2 in the atmosphere comes directly from volcanos, rain, and plant matter decay.

Plants release some carbon when their leaves fall and decay in the autumn, and when the plants die they also sequester carbon in thePlants release some carbon when their leaves fall and decay in the autumn, and when the plants die they also sequester carbon in theplants die they also sequester carbon in the soil.

(Keeling understood immediately that the curve is jagged because plants in the Northern Hemisphere take up CO2 as they grow in Spring and Summer, and release it as they decay in Autumn and Winter.)