Sentences with phrase «in soil water»

Elevated CO2 has important effects on production and soil water balance in most grassland types, mediated strongly by reduced stomatal conductance and resulting increases in soil water (Leakey et al., 2006) in many grassland types (Nelson et al., 2004; Niklaus and Körner, 2004; Stock et al., 2005).

Covey said researchers have known for a long time that trees can act like straws bringing methane up in soil water from wetlands.

We have evaluated the potential decadal predictability of variations in soil water, vegetation, and fire frequency over North America using the low resolution version of the earth system model CESM.

The co2 absorption in soil water isn't the only dividend that comes from hydrological movement.

Our control simulation further suggests that decadal variations in soil water storage also affect vegetation and wildfire occurrences.

The paragraph in question correctly stated: «By mid-century, increases in temperature and associated decreases in soil water are projected to lead to gradual replacement of tropical forest by savanna in eastern Amazonia.

Carbon dioxide (CO2) Burning fossil fuels & deforestation Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) Refrigerants, Styrofoam, propellants Methane (CH4) Animal waste, biomass burning, fossil fuels, landfills, livestock, rice paddies, sewage, wetlands Nitrous oxide - N20 Biomass burning, deforestation, microbes in soil Water Vapor (H20) Evaporation, plant respiration (transpiration)

To determine the possible water flow changes and the impact on the plant community, the team installed access tubes into the ground to measure the changes in soil water in storage.

«In the fine liquid film surrounding the hyphae, bacteria can move with much greater speed and direction and cover more distance than in soil water without hyphae,» says Tom Berthold, first author of the study and a doctoral researcher at the UFZ Department of Environmental Microbiology.

The researchers believe the greening is a response to higher atmospheric carbon dioxide inducing decreases in plant stomatal conductance — the measure of the rate of passage of carbon dioxide entering, or water vapor exiting, through the stomata of a leaf — and increases in soil water, thus enhancing vegetation growth.

The researchers examined the sensitivity of soil water change to varying levels of carbon dioxide, finding a significant positive change in soil water along the carbon dioxide enrichment gradient.

Not exact matches

Through water and soil monitoring software, accompanying hardware, and crop loss insurance, it's helping farmers protect their livelihoods in the era of climate change.

Harwood received a patent for his invention and founded Aero Farm Systems, so named because «aeroponics» refers to the method of growing plants without placing them in soil or water.

One area experiencing a boom is hydroponic farming, in which plants are grown in water rather than soil, often in a controlled environment.

Prior to Black Friday, Patagonia announced that it would donate 100 percent of its global retail and online sales from the shopping event straight to grassroots organizations that work in local communities to «protect our air, water and soil for future generations».

The same experts found that widespread vegetarianism could cut environmental costs by $ 35 billion, as meat's role in exacerbating climate change, as well as its contribution to soil erosion, water pollution, deforestation, and biodiversity loss, is well documented.

What it does: This microbe is extremely versatile and can live in a wide range of environments, including soil, water, animals, plants, sewage, and hospitals in addition to humans.

Later in the day, the two leaders planted a commemorative pine tree, using soil and water from mountains and rivers in their respective countries, according to a statement from South Korea's presidential Blue House.

Transmitted through both soil and water, F. oxysporum can lay dormant in the soil for up to 30 years, and it's virtually impossible for growers to know their crops have it without rigorous testing (which doesn't exist).

Considered benign to humans and plants, the bacterium is found in soil, air and water, and has a unique ability to survive in hot and cold climates.

Using a wide array of data from sensors in the soil along with satellite imagery and weather forecasts, the company designed a «personalized» irrigation system for each block of vines, greatly reducing water consumption and increasing output.

And in many agricultural regions (India's Punjab, for example) farming practices have degraded soil and water resources, causing yields to fall.

«Our main focus is to control air, water, and soil pollution in our country.

Kyoto focuses primarily on reducing CO2, a relatively harmless gas, and does nothing to control real air pollution like NOx, SO2, and particulates, or serious pollutants in water and soil.

These 15 risks are: Lack of Fresh Water, Unsustainable Urbanization, Continued Lock - in to Fossil Fuels, Chronic Diseases, Extreme Weather, Loss of Ocean Biodiversity, Resistance to Life - saving Medicine, Accelerating Transport Emissions, Youth Unemployment, Global Food Crisis, Unstable Regions, Soil Depletion, Rising Inequality, Cities Disrupted by Climate Change & Cyber Threats.

These include: C$ 4.5 billion to support research, training, and infrastructure at universities and colleges; a Strategic Innovation Fund that will provide C$ 1.26 billion for business innovation in the aerospace and automotive sector; a Connect to Innovate Program that will invest C$ 500 million to bring high - speed Internet to remote and rural communities by 2021; and, C$ 70 million over six years to support agriculture innovation with a focus on climate change, and soil and water conservation.

What they do not explain is that Law's initial infusion of money led to a fluorescence of employment and prosperity, for the early effect of providing money is like watering plants that have been living in parched soil.

Hurricane Harvey hovered over the Gulf Coast in late August and dumped 33 trillion gallons of water on US soil, according to some estimates, and is now the wettest storm in US history.

There is a grave environmental crisis in air quality (life expectancy in polluted northern cities is five and a half years lower than in the cleaner south), water and soil (one survey showed that 10 per cent of arable land was unsafe to grow crops on).

That accident left 47 people dead and released millions of litres of oil into the air, water and soil when the runaway train crashed in the small Quebec town.

Hemp phytoremediates contaminated soils, uses much less water to grow than corn, soybean, and cotton, and it doesn't need herbicides, fungicides, or pesticides to grow successfully; hemp does all of this while producing more material in it's twelve or so feet of sun stretching life.

Thus, as Christians in Latin America we choose life over death by combating the deterioration of the natural environment and the pollution of soil, air, water, and other elements.

Some citizens had written beautiful poems in homage to the swallows, while others argued that they soiled the streets and tried to get rid of them — with gunshots, buckets of water, or fireworks.

Most of the remaining 1 percent of the earth's water supply is found in underground aquifers which are recharged by rainwater seeping through the soil.

One of the major impacts of the Church Union in 1970 was that we were able to break the foreign flower pots and readjusting to the new soil, struggling to take roots, searching for water, fertilizer and other such resources to grow, all helped the CNI to recognize the need for new insights, methodologies and paradigms.

I sometimes think that the difficulties we now face in controlling water, air, and soil pollution, and the undue dissemination of radioactive materials, are the result of a common impression that «the boundary between life and non - life has all but disappeared.

We recognize this goodness in the fertility of the soil, natural harbors, scenic beauty, the availability of water, and the subsurface riches of coal, oil, gold, iron and other substances.

A tree must have it's roots deep in good soil and with lots of water in order to be healthy and strong (cf. Ps.

38 Then the fire of the Lord fell and burned up the sacrifice, the wood, the stones and the soil, and also licked up the water in the trench.

«33 The reason is attributed to the availability of adequate soil coverage and water systems in Nazareth that make agriculture possible even at the hilltop.34 Archaeological digs at Nazareth by Bagatti has shown that the artifacts recovered under the shrines of Nazareth, among others, include silos, olive - pressing and wine - pressing installations, cisterns, and holes for storage jars, some of which coming from a period as early as the Iron Age.35 This led Meyers and Strange to conclude that Nazareth was a peasant village since «the principal activity of these villagers was agriculture.

Huge new projects like the Aswan Dam in Egypt have upset water balances in the soils and created new problems of salinity where none existed before.

Babylonia was rich in its alluvial soil, the age - long deposit of the Euphrates and the Tigris, those two great rivers that year after year unceasingly carried their load of silt to a resting - place, first in the Persian Gulf, then in the swamps that were slowly forming, and at length in the plain which gradually emerged from the waters, though at inundation each year it once again was claimed by the floods that had made it.

Similar limits exist in the area of fresh water, fertile soil, and petroleum.

Not defaming this mystery in all its forms requires not polluting the soil, air, or water, not supporting excessive, unsustainable harvesting, consciously treating all beings as manifestations of the Mystery of Body.

Nevertheless, Soil and Water Conservation Week or Stewardship Week continues, now tethered to the original Roman calendar observance on April 25th — known to liturgical Christians still in the know as the Major Rogation — rather than the more variable Minor Rogations, the three days before Ascension Thursday, highlighted in 1957.

When a seed is planted in the appropriate soil, it is planted in a rich composite of properties such as organic elements, minerals, rock and clay particles, acids, water, etc..

These are the cycles of nature which result in degradation of wastes and the maintenance of the atmosphere, the water and the soils of the earth.

She had taken the soil on which he had walked, thrown it into the water, and bewitched him in this way, for without that soil he could not regain his health.

There are other cycles in nature, such as the water cycle, in which water circulates between the atmosphere and the soil and oceans and rivers.

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