Sentences with phrase «in plant community»

Will rapid transitions and species invasions lead to sudden changes in plant community balance, killing large numbers of trees or otherwise upsetting the local carbon cycle, and will those disruptions put more CO2 and methane into the air or remove it?

Changes in plant community composition lag behind climate warming in lowland forests.

«It's a less obvious impact than losing all the birds because the change in the plant community is gradual, but Guam is becoming an increasingly different forest now that it has lost all of its frugivores,» Rogers said.

«It's pretty revealing that the findings in this study correspond to what we have been seeing in the field and confirm that deer preferences play a major role in plant community assembly.»

Such changes in plant community structures also have long - term impacts on forest regeneration, Averill said.

«But what we've found is that the associated changes in plant community composition in the polar regions could lead to way more carbon being released into the atmosphere as methane.»

Researchers did observe, however, substantial changes in the plant community during the course of the six - year study.

The research also suggests that the microbial succession on a cadaver operates similarly to the colonization that occurs in plant communities, where «at first, weedy species thrive — they scoop up the easy - to - eat stuff,» says DeBruyn.

The finding is significant both because the shift in plant communities could be clearly detected over time, but also because it suggests that plants adapted to colder temperatures that are now found in alpine plant communities will be subject to more competition, which «may lead to declines or even local disappearance of alpine plant species,» the researchers note.

Not exact matches

Good community relations can also be beneficial in times of crisis, such as a fire or a plant closing, by rallying the community around the affected business.

In a shared, community garden, Googlers plant seeds, knowing that if they get too busy, a landscaper will pull their weeds.

People have a sense that medium - skilled industrial jobs at big factories used to hold communities together, and that after those plants closed, communities hurt in ways both economic and social.

They had a huge celebration in Upstate NY inviting the entire community near their plant, their farmers, and their employees.

The prime minister made the comment Wednesday while greeting steelworkers during an early - morning shift change outside a plant in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., part of a three - day meet - and - greet tour of communities where steel and aluminum manufacturing are major employers.

There are ethanol plants where the source of funding was the local community: A few thousand families all put in, say, $ 10,000 each.

Sheer persistence: Bluedrop fostered major community cred when it bought a derelict meat - packing plant in downtown St. John's and painstakingly renovated it into a beautiful workspace.

In 1972, at age 15, he was involved in a community group that opposed a nuclear power plant proposed for two miles north of New York City (a proposal that the utility company quickly withdrewIn 1972, at age 15, he was involved in a community group that opposed a nuclear power plant proposed for two miles north of New York City (a proposal that the utility company quickly withdrewin a community group that opposed a nuclear power plant proposed for two miles north of New York City (a proposal that the utility company quickly withdrew).

That change might not be of consequence for the Oscar Mayer plant's future in Madison, but it would help to ensure that we do not lose more major employers in Madison or other Wisconsin communities.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

AMA Mexico catalyzed community members to plant 3,000 new trees in the park and weekly meetings focused on community development take place in the on - site classrooms built by the city of Puebla.

For those like Gibson and Montgomery, who planted their stakes along Central Avenue before Vitori Kimener, her return from the big city sent a powerful message not only to skeptics in the community, but to other aspiring entrepreneurs.

Prior to the disaster, which is still affecting communities in Japan today, nuclear plants provided about 30 % of Japan's energy mix.

communitygarden.org Maybe you don't have time to cultivate your own plant bed, but there are about 18,000 community gardens in urban, suburban and rural areas throughout North America.

These pastors «float» the idea of killing gays and then claim to back away from the idea — but what they are REALLY doing is PLANTING the idea — and they will sit back while the crazies in their communities try to carry this out.

In Searching for Sunday I feature several unusual church plants that are thriving in their communities, and many are associated with mainline Protestant denominations that were willing to take a risk on unconventional modelIn Searching for Sunday I feature several unusual church plants that are thriving in their communities, and many are associated with mainline Protestant denominations that were willing to take a risk on unconventional modelin their communities, and many are associated with mainline Protestant denominations that were willing to take a risk on unconventional models.

There it wasn't so much about deconstructing theological concepts for reconstructing a theoretical utopia, but in working side - by - side as partners in social transformation enterprises that fit the context of the communities the Spirit planted us in.

If our community thinks that there are officers planting evidence in the course of their duty, that is something that will keep me up at night.»

My effort was the fourth church plant in the community in seven years.

We believe that it is much more effective to plant a church in an area and raise up leadership that is already a part of that community.

Still, I think the health of such subcultural communities will be essential to our flourishing regardless, even if we also continue to live with one foot firmly planted in the outside world.

We need to plant in communities where the Sprit of God is already tilling the soil!

I am Rev.D.Samuel, founder / Managing trustee of India Rural Gospel Mission Trust, which in involving in out - reach, Evangelism, church planting / growth, and children's home and community social service run by faith.

The fragile economic situation of most Americans has been starkly evident in communities where plants have closed or moved away.

The vision for a coffee shop and church plant in our community first presented itself to me and my husband two years ago.

Stephen is the lead pastor of Adorn, a church plant in Los Angeles that cultivates community movements for Gospel renewal.

and ended up in Denver planting a community of faith called Adullam with some friends.

While the principal function of the immigrant churches was to preserve the ethnic and cultural identity of the immigrants, the main purpose of the mission churches, resulting from agreements negotiated by and with churches in the United States, was not to serve communities of U.S. citizens in the region, but to plant churches among the local inhabitants.

There were settled communities that had domesticated both plants and animals and possessed highly developed skills in various arts and crafts.

«Planting onions» has come to signify for me the importance of remaining committed to those slow - growing, long - term investments in my family, my community, and the world, no matter what happens over the next four years.

The hurts of the people in Garden Grove may not be as sophisticated as the hurts of the Berkeleyites, but Schuller claims that any church will grow if it understands the needs of the community in which it is planted and acts realistically «to heal human hearts and fill human needs» through the power of God's love in Christ.

We who grew up in the African - American community some 40 years ago know there were (and still are) things in the social «soil» beyond our little vineyards that affect how the «planted seed» grows.

Being a part of a church plant has forced me to confront a vicious cycle in my life, a cycle that goes something like this: 1) I resolve in my head to live like Jesus in community with those around me, 2) I start reading Shane Claiborne books and memorizing the Sermon on the Mount, 3) I get overwhelmed by how impossible it all seems, 4) I get distracted by work and daily tasks, 5) I give up, 6) I feel guilty.

And there was action, when someone would begin something new in the human relationships of the plant community, would speak a word to stir trust or distrust, or issue a memo that raised or lowered the morale of others.

Those rules are made to ensure that morons like you don't move into a community, plant a giant statue in the front yard, thereby lowering the housing values of your neighbors.

«Our growth strategy is we plant out in the community and look for people who are not in church.

Such enabling in community is based on a recognition of the fundamental interconnectedness of life, of men and women, blacks and whites, Americans and Nicaraguans, Americans and Russians, humans and the nonhuman community of animals, plants, air and water.

I like the idea of being planted in the house of God, of putting one's roots down into a community and remaining there.

These new developments compel the attention of the American religious community, for they are now affecting millions of workers, their families and their communities in the form of massive plant closures, huge movements of industrial capital overseas and a downshifting of the work force into lower - paying and more menial jobs — when such jobs can be found.

Their religion was like a dried flower pressed in a Bible, and often seemed to consist of nothing more than a desire for peaceful feelings, a vague longing to be connected with something that transcends the self and a sense of obligation to be decent to their fellows — all positive stirrings, but hardly the vigorous plant that could flourish in a nurturing religious community.

When American Jews learned that workers at the Agriprocessors plant faced dire conditions, including receiving safety instructions in English even though many spoke only Spanish, the community entered a kosher crisis.