Sentences with phrase «leaf litter samples»
A statistical analysis of the weight loss of each leaf litter sample after those nine months showed that higher background radiation was associated with less weight loss.
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• As with the previous location, gather the leaf litter and soil within the sampling frame (down to approximately two cm deep).
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.
They set out to assess the rate at which plant material decomposed as a function of background radiation, placing hundreds of samples of uncontaminated leaf litter (pine needles and oak, maple and birch leaves) in mesh bags throughout the area.