Sentences with phrase «leaf litter from»

«Bagging and removing leaf litter from the ground also helps.

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.

They also found that exposure to the leaf litter from a common trees species, oak, significantly altered the sex ratios in the frog populations and, in some cases, the size of individual females.

«What this means is that C. tropicale from leaf litter from adult trees is able to quickly get into young leaves and crowd out other microbes, including pathogens, thus keeping them from colonizing.»

In addition, the leaves of the seedlings grown with leaf litter from healthy cacao plants showed only half of the damage sustained by plants grown with mixed - leaf litter from the forest floor.

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It can act like a barrier, preventing leaf litter from the surrounding forest — along with plastic bags, soda cans and other light trash — from sinking into the denser saltwater.

A.The AVMA (American Veterinary Medicine Association) says that puppies can leave the litter from 6 to 10 weeks.

Not exact matches

The road to a spotlessly pristine, uncluttered office is often littered with passive - aggressive memos, some formal («Note to all staff: cleaning crews will be coming through your workspace this evening; please remove all items from the floor), some less so («To whoever keeps leaving their disgusting wet teabags in the sink: your mother doesn't work here!

Aside from all the litter you've left lying around, and the trees you've destroyed getting all this printed, and the money and time you've wasted distributing it, I feel like I'm being stalked.

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.

They also measured special «stable isotopes» of carbon and nitrogen in river organisms to trace how much of the energy in their bodies came originally from leaf litter.

Clockwise from top left i) Plastic bag recorded by an OFOS at the HAUSGARTEN observatory (Arctic) at 2500 m; ii = Litter recovered within the net of a trawl in Blanes open slope at 1500 m during the PROMETO 5 cruise on board the R / V «García del Cid»; iii) Cargo net entangled in a cold - water coral colony at 950 m in Darwin Mound with the ROV «Lynx» (National Oceanography Centre, UK).

Each time it rains, runoff carries an earthy tea steeped from leaf litter, crop residue, soil, and other organic materials into the storm drains and streams that feed Chesapeake Bay.

Globs of decomposed fish flesh recently rose from deep in the Salton Sea, coagulated into spheres on the lake surface and surfed the waves to shore, leaving the high - water line littered with thousands of sticky balls of fish

Because the seedlings stand only 10 centimeters tall, the scientists concluded that the leaves» color would help a young, tender plant blend in with leaf litter and hide it from a browsing moa.

«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.

Allaby's team took four core samples of sediments from a section of the site littered with burnt hazelnut shells apparently left by the hunter - gatherers and subjected the samples to both radiocarbon dating and ancient DNA analysis.

Concentrations in the soil of some minerals released from the leaf litter as the worms eat increased down to a depth of 25 centimeters, and spiked later in the growing season when the worms are largest and most active.

By 2009, Kowalski had found what he thought was the sexual form of C. fraxinea: Hymenoscyphus albidus, which produces spores from tiny toadstool - like growths on ash leaf litter (Forest Pathology, DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0239.2008.00589.x).

Our solar system is littered with asteroids and comets, debris left over from the planets» formation.

Debris includes plastics that wash in from ships, trash that finds its way to shore from rivers and the litter that beach visitors leave behind.

«Many scientists have studied similar effects from exposure to pharmaceuticals and pesticides, but now we're seeing it from chemicals found in common road salt and leaf litter,» said Max Lambert, lead author of the paper and a doctoral student at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.

Stoler said additional results from the road salt and leaf litter experiments will be published in the coming months.

Eventually though, the cooler weather and changing leaves (granted I live in the South and the fall foliage pretty much goes from green, to yellow, to a muddy brown and then boom — dead leaves littering my still uncovered pool) win me over and I start thinking about cinnamon, nutmeg, and yes — pumpkin.

Litter the table with a dash of rustic -LCB- these old books and burlap runners are left over from our wedding! -RCB-

From Tarantino's vicious post-modern gunplay to the tragic and self - conscious myth - making of Andrew Dominik's The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, the spirit of Bonnie and Clyde continues to leave a corpse - littered trail through American cinema.

Equipped with TwinMax ™ sweeping technology, all types of debris can be collected from small dust and leaf matter through to aluminium cans and litter without the need to change brushes.

«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.

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.

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

I was the only puppy left from the litter..

Although puppies receive much of their socialization from their mothers and litter mates in the first 12 weeks of life, you are now your puppy's pack leader and need to pick up where his birth mother left off as a puppy trainer.

The Simcoe & District SPCA had recently rescued 35 guinea pigs from a couple whose two pet guinea pigs (originally thought to be two males) had a couple of litters in rapid succession, leaving them with a «muddle» of guinea pigs.

Litters that don't clump very well will leave little pieces that break off from the main balls.

Kittens from birth to six weeks: Kittens do best when raised by their mothers and although there are programs in Austin to help orphaned kittens, if you find a litter of healthy, young kittens that are in a safe location like in a yard, the best thing you can do is leave them alone.

Do not pick puppies from a litter where the first half have already been sold and left the premises - the best pups usually sell first.

If you're litter training a feral kitten, you might have to put soil or leaves from outdoors in the box at first.

While weaning for puppies can take place at six to seven weeks, they are still learning important skills from their litter - mates as their mother starts to leave them for longer periods of time.

The minimal amount of litter material that does leave the litter tray will not roll or move far from the tray.

Dried blood, poo and the general mess left behind from fleas accumulates into these darker, almost black pellets that can litter your home if you let a flea problem get out of hand.

Every litter we have is hand raised from birth and never left alone.

Lid with texture cleans the litter stuck on the cat's paws preventing it from going onto the floor (it is left more on the top of the box than on the floor).

You aren't the only one who doesn't like the smell of a dirty litter box — and you have the option of getting away from it by leaving the room.

(4.4 / 5) Clevercat Top Entry Litterbox helps reduce litter tracking your cat leaves from the litter box, it stops litter and clumps from spilling over the edges and it reduces odor.

From the moment they're born to the moment they leave with their new parents, you give your litters a great start.

There are 9 puppies left from an 11 puppy litter.

Most of the more than 200 Central Florida pets left homeless by February's deadly tornadoes have been reunited with their owners or taken in by new families.For shelter operators who worked around the clock for days to tend to stranded and injured pets, the task now is to place the 17 dogs and cats remaining from Orange, Osceola and Seminole, the hardest - hit counties.In the days after the storms, dogs with puppies, cats with litters on the way, even parakeets and guinea pigs were rescued by strangers or turned in by owners who didn't have a place for themselves, let alone their pets.

Cats fear being trapped and will be ill at ease trying to get to a litter box that could leave them vulnerable to what they perceive as a potential attack from another animal or predator.

Leave her alone with the pups as much as possible and keep strangers and other pets away from her and her litter.