Sentences with phrase «less abundant»

Although methane is about 200 times less abundant than carbon dioxide, each incremental molecule of methane has about 20 times the heat - trapping power as each additional molecule of carbon dioxide.

Although it is far less abundant than carbon dioxide and stays in the air for only a decade or so, molecule for molecule its warming effect (calculated over 100 years) is 25 times higher.

Carbon dioxide, that is, the aerial form of the carbon of which we have up till now spoken: this gas which constitutes the raw material of life, the permanent store upon which all that grows draws, and the ultimate destiny of all flesh, is not one of the principal components of air but rather a ridiculous remnant, an «impurity», thirty times less abundant than argon, which nobody even notices.

Methane is less abundant than carbon dioxide, and disappears faster in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide.

Ecosystem changes due to overfishing can create «trophic cascades,» meaning that (again just for example) if you have finned and killed too many sharks in the western mid Atlantic ocean, their prey (certain types of rays) are much more abundant, and thus THEIR prey is less abundant.

«Although many corals are becoming less abundant, there remain a number of species that are holding their own or increasing in abundance and these corals will populate tropical reefs over the next few centuries,» researcher Peter Edmunds, of California State University, explained.

Note that this argument applies to all levels of the atmosphere, including the upper levels where carbon dioxide is relatively less abundant, and that the line of reasoning also becomes more potent (in the sense that less additional warming is forced) the more carbon dioxide that either humans or nature emit.

This would mitigate the cost of compliance for states that have less abundant renewable energy resources, while avoiding the one - size - fits - all challenges of a national renewable electricity mandate.

The lava was less abundant and certainly less visible now in daylight, but the mountain continued to throw out enormous chunks of debris, some of which were flung so far that they landed in the sea at the foot of the volcano with an explosive splash and a mist of steam.

Hi Jan, I'm not sure that the UK market is any less abundant or more cynical than anywhere else.

As for his collecting habits, specifics are less abundant than mentions of media shyness and a preference for privacy.

Family Combretaceae The white mangrove also lacks the prop roots of the red mangrove and sends up pneumatophores which are smaller diameter (often pencil diameter and less abundant than those of the black mangrove.

In the micro-cap range, information is more scarce and liquidity less abundant.

This does not suggest that these sectors are devoid of value altogether; however, it comes as no surprise to us that bargains are less abundant in these popular areas.

The leather is a bit thinner and less abundant though than on my older BMW.

What is less abundant is hard data relative to the effect of block scheduling on student achievement.

But those aren't REAL problems as, if you strip «Paper Mario» from the name, replace it by something else with Mario and Paper, and then say it is not part of the Paper Mario series, all the (although still valid) critics of lack of storyline and characters would be taken less seriously (even though the game would of been much better with) and the hate would be much less abundant then it is now, which is much more than it should be.

It is less abundant in meat, by contrast, and almost entirely absent from refined grains and sugar (Table 6).

It is less abundant in meat, by contrast, and almost entirely absent from refined grains and sugar.14 Thus, we would expect a well - rounded diet devoid of «the displacing foods of modern commerce» to be rich in magnesium and thereby support the synergistic action of the fat - soluble vitamins.

The restricted sequencing depth will thus affect the statistical power of detecting less abundant resistance genes as well as assessing the frequencies of chromosomal mutations known to cause resistance.

We used the proteomic strategy described in Methods to assure that the maximum number of proteins would be analyzed and the more abundant proteins did not obscure the less abundant ones having biomarker potential.

These analyses resulted in an in - depth characterization of the CSF proteome and the combined results of abundant protein and less abundant protein fractions allowed the creation of an AMT tag database [19] for high - throughput analysis of a larger number of individual subject samples using LC - MS.

As fish become less abundant, their market value rises, and operators invest more in technology resulting in more pressure on the stocks.

We reasoned that any lineages that were seen in placental samples extracted by both methods, but less abundant or absent in controls, would be candidates (though we note that there is evidence for occasional recovery of different lineages dependent on the DNA purification kit used [24]-RRB-.

As ocean acidification proceeds, carbonate becomes less and less abundant, so at one point the carbonate concentration in the water is limiting the precipitation of calcium carbonate and organisms have a harder time to make their shell and skeleton since one of the bricks needed to make the wall is becoming less and less abundant.

Because fruit can be less abundant than leaves, frugivores often travel across larger ranges.

The production of HDO in comets has historically been difficult to measure, because HDO is a much less abundant form of water.

The conversion of astrocytes into less abundant neural stem cells (NSCs) represents a potentially exciting strategy to generate the many neurons required for the treatment of neurological disorders and brain injuries.

If fact, some researchers believe a larger number of species are to be found in the Wheeler and Marjum Formations of Utah than in the Burgess Shale, though the fossils of soft - bodied animals in Utah are far less abundant and limited to relatively few horizons.

It turned out that the bees with a low heat tolerance in the lab, including bumblebees and sweat bees, were less abundant in hotter areas.

On Titan, where solar ultraviolet radiation is much weaker and oxygen - bearing molecules are substantially less abundant, methane can last 10 million to 100 million years (which is still a short time in geologic terms).

We found methane to be much less abundant, ranging from zero to about 35 ppbv, with a planetary average of approximately 10 ppbv.

For its journey from the brain to the stomach, alpha - synuclein only used the less abundant efferent vagal projections.

As a result, pine seedlings were four times less abundant at noisy sites than quiet ones.

But in the case of photovoltaic (PV) materials, Kurchin explains, it is actually the minority carriers — those that are far less abundant in the material — that are the limiting factor in a device's overall efficiency, and those are much more difficult to measure.

In contrast, when patches of forest are isolated from each other, pollinators are less abundant and plants frequently fail to reproduce.

In regions with monocultures, there were fewer bird species, and birds tended to be less abundant.

But because the surrounding ocean would have been warmer, and stabilizing sea ice less abundant, the massive East Antarctic ice sheet may have contributed to higher sea levels by flowing more quickly towards the ocean.

Certain types of bacteria were either more or less abundant in children with multiple sclerosis.

The latter are near the southern limits of their natural range and, in addition to being less abundant, they show less DNA diversity than the central population.

As expected, smaller green fragments are more susceptible to environmental disturbances, which mainly drive out the less abundant insect species.

«The results for the mid-stage cholera group, which included bacteria usually less abundant in the developing world, were probably the most interesting,» says LaRocque, an assistant professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

The authors» model revealed the golden eagles were less abundant in developed and forested areas and more abundant in open, elevated areas with high wind speeds.

The quest to produce a sweetener with the most sugar - like taste continues with PureCircle identifying two different ways of producing significant amounts of Reb D and Reb M, two in - demand steviol glycosides that are less abundant in conventional stevia plants.

This does not suggest that these sectors are devoid of value altogether; however, it comes as no surprise to us that bargains are less abundant in these popular areas.

As money is less abundant and investors reassess risk, giant IPOs like we've seen with Facebook and Twitter could be a thing of the past.

Not exact matches

Those business owners have long complained that the disparity is unfair, especially in view of the fact that many multinationals pay much less than the 35 percent statutory corporate tax rate by exploiting abundant loopholes and tax breaks available to large, global corporations.

In their place, Toyota will use the more abundant rare earths lanthanum and cerium, which also cost about 20 times less than neodymium.

, gold was initially becoming more abundant, less scarce.

The larger the contango, that is, the higher the futures price relative to the spot price, the more abundant the current supply and the less price - supportive the so - called «fundamentals».