Sentences with phrase «leaf litter for»

• With your magnifying glasses, you and your partner should examine the leaf litter for any worms, snails, spiders or other insects.

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Dr Parr has been investigating the potential for soil organic carbon sequestration by bamboo leaf litter in collaboration with researchers from the Fujian Academy of Forestry Sciences in south - east China.

More specifically, the proposed bills would increase fines for littering and depositing residential or commercial waste into public receptacles, require «food and beverage establishments» to clean up any liquid waste their trash left on the sidewalk, and order special trashcans for rodent infested buildings.

The university's extensive landscaping offers many habitats for the non-native snails, which can survive under stones, on tree bark, and among grass and leaf litter.

Oliver attributed most of those differences to Southern heat: To avoid it, scapularis nymphs hide out under leaf litter, biting lizards and small mammals instead of questing for larger prey on tall grass or brush.

And a few months back, while Sonntag was changing litter, refilling water bottles, and replenishing food for more than 400 rats in one of his lab's animal rooms, he found a Super Soaker toy water gun someone had left lying around.

The accumulation of leaf litter in a dry climate sets the stage for periodic fires.

For this reason, leaf litter is considered very biodiverse.

More to explore Hope College Leaf Litter Arthropod Key from Hope College Life in the Leaf Litter (pdf - English, pdf - Spanish) from the American Museum of Natural History Scientists Spend 10 Years Watching Leaf Litter Decay for Clues to Climate Change from Scientific American Spiders in Borneo: Spiders in leaf litter from Scientific American This activity brought to you in partnership with CitySLitter Arthropod Key from Hope College Life in the Leaf Litter (pdf - English, pdf - Spanish) from the American Museum of Natural History Scientists Spend 10 Years Watching Leaf Litter Decay for Clues to Climate Change from Scientific American Spiders in Borneo: Spiders in leaf litter from Scientific American This activity brought to you in partnership with CitySLitter (pdf - English, pdf - Spanish) from the American Museum of Natural History Scientists Spend 10 Years Watching Leaf Litter Decay for Clues to Climate Change from Scientific American Spiders in Borneo: Spiders in leaf litter from Scientific American This activity brought to you in partnership with CitySLitter Decay for Clues to Climate Change from Scientific American Spiders in Borneo: Spiders in leaf litter from Scientific American This activity brought to you in partnership with CitySlitter from Scientific American This activity brought to you in partnership with CityScience

«Tropical soil microbes are responsible for the nearly complete decomposition of leaf plant litter in as little as eighteen months,» she says.

Burrowing bats are peculiar because they not only fly; they also scurry about on all fours, over the forest floor, under leaf litter and along tree branches, while foraging for both animal and plant food.

These large frogs hide among the leaf litter on the rainforest floor, making it harder for predators to spot them and easier to snag unsuspecting passing prey such as spiders and lizards.

Small ponds have a high perimeter - to - surface - area ratio, for example, and accumulate a higher load of terrestrial carbon — so - called «leaf litter,» sediment particles and other material.

«These forests recycle a lot of their nutrients from the leaf litter, and they also keep their leaves for several years rather than lose them each fall,» Armesto says.

Leaf litter declined by 95 percent in forested study areas, and the Asian worms left behind residue that was almost pebbly in consistency — grainy little balls of dirt that may make it hard for the seeds of native plants to germinate.

These eggs are commonly laid in concealed locations, such as in plant tissues or in leaf litter or soil and are difficult to find, so for the most part the host insects of fairyflies are unknown.

Fire helps maintain prairie ecosystems by clearing away the dead leaf litter that can build up and crowd out sunlight for new plant shoots.

For the experiment, researchers created a series of water treatments in 500 - liter tanks containing varying levels of road salt and leaf litter from maple and oak trees.

At a large table littered with sketches, laptops, beverages, and half - eaten snacks, three makers discuss how to construct a new prosthetic for Jordan Reeves, an 11 - year - old who was born with limb difference (her left arm ends at the elbow).

I want to offer a temporary home for kittens and cats until they are old enough to leave their mum, using the litter tray and have all the necessary vet checks and treatments.

It's like scooping out the mental litter box, leaving my brain fresh - smelling for a new year.

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 swept away much of the legislative clutter that had littered the education landscape for more than a decade, in favor of programs based in good science and research.

1]-RRB- dispersal are detailed in Table II; the elements of plant strategies are: PT is plant type, sm is shoot morphology, lf is leaf form, c is canopy, loep is length of established phase, lor is lifetime of roots, lp is leaf phenology, rop is reproductive organ phenology, ff is flowering frequency, poaps = proportion of annual production for seeds, podup is perennating organs during unfavourable periods, rs is regenerative strategy, mpgr is mean potential growth rate, rrd is response to resource depletion, pumn is photosynthetic uptake of mineral nutrients, ac is acclimation capacity, sop is storage of photosynthates, lc is litter characteristic, psh is palatability to non-specific herbivores and nDNA is nuclear DNA amount.

In 19 zany poems, including rhyme, free verse, sonnet, tanka, and clerihew, Bulion introduces a variety of the brown food web's decomposers that live in the leaf litter layer, also called the duff, and how they turn dead organic matter into nutrients for plants.

There are eight more that I'm not going to buy simply because $ 8.00 for an ebook is too much — and the copy - editing (Penguin Books, btw) has left a bit to be desired; they are not «littered» with typos, but there are plenty.

Cat toys and litter boxes may be developed to have specific versions for right - pawed cats or left - pawed cats.

«Our litter will last four to six weeks for one cat, provided the litter box is kept clean,» says Stan Yamamoto, CEO of NextGen Pet, which offers a lineup of litters made from wood and green tea leaves.

Occasional Messes One additional note regarding litter - box training is that your bunny may still leave the occasional «present» for you on the floor.

When you allow the box to come back to rest, just move it upward a little to the left and the clean litter falls into the litter tray ready for your cat to use again.

Many folks love the fact that they can leave their cats all day, or perhaps for a weekend (with food and water of course,) and come home to a fresh litter box.

If you come across a litter of kittens left alone, wait from a distance for some time to see if the mother cat eventually returns.

In the event of suitable houses not being identified for the puppies, the breeder can be left with a litter of young dogs that will have a desire for sexual pleasure as they develop.

The «left over puppies» from a litter are often abandoned at the local shelter or left to fend for themselves as strays.

In unfavorable weather, ticks retreat to sheltered microclimates like leaf litter where they wait for conditions to improve.

We decided that we didn't want to dock the tail, so we asked for it to be left intact; we were also put on a waitlist for a litter.

To aid in memory retention, leave some of its poop in the litter box so the scent will serve like a magnet for your kitty's nose.

The puppy has left familiar surroundings and litter for an unknown environment.

As the miller shipped off her adorable puppies for sale, Millie was left in the mill to produce litter after litter.

Many owners find having several litter boxes spread across the home is a necessary evil in order for their indoor rabbit not to leave their droppings all over their home.

It really makes getting the tiny little pieces of soiled litter so much easier to do... I feel confident I'm leaving cleaner litter boxes for my cats... I hope you're very successful — I think this product would help a lot of owners with their litter box duties.

Kittens who left their mothers too soon may have trouble grooming themselves, not know how to bury their waste in the litter box, play too rough, not know how to hunt for food, or have other behavioral problems.

Your cat may not want to use the litter box you give him if it's rarely clean, for example, and asking him to leave the couch alone is really not fair if he has nothing else in the house to scratch.

As follows I came up with 5 conclusions as an owner of a Litter Robot III regarding those fails that most automatic litter boxes have and how this unit became my best partner, especially when I need to leave for short Litter Robot III regarding those fails that most automatic litter boxes have and how this unit became my best partner, especially when I need to leave for short litter boxes have and how this unit became my best partner, especially when I need to leave for short trips.

Example of this are automatic litter boxes with rakes: the reason for this is because the more cats using the system, the more you will need to manually clean the «missing» pieces of feces left by the machine or caught in the rake.

However, if you are leaving for longer than he can control elimination, make sure the crate is located in a room or pen, where there is paper or litter pads covering any area that he might eliminate.

Some automatic litter boxes work better than others, that's for sure, but most of them are not 100 % reliable in the sense that you just can't leave them alone for up to 7 or 8 days with one cat and not even worry about it.

«ScoopFree is the original self - cleaning litter box you can leave alone for weeks at a time.

They are recommended for cats and dogs that may have separation anxiety, that run for cover every time you have company, or become moody after being introduced to a new family member and dogs that urinate in the house or cats that urinate outside of the litter box when you go on vacation, or leave you special «gifts» if you interrupt his or her routine.

For example, keep the lawn mowed, remove leaf litter accumulations and prune shrubs and trees.4

If you're buying a puppy, it should be at least 8 weeks old; 9 to 12 weeks is a good time for a pup to leave its litter.