Sentences with phrase «less plant growth»

A 1C warming now would allow for a lot less plant growth then a 1C warming when the world is half covered with ice.

This plant approach seems to have some resonance with many people since it seems easy to understand that less CO2, essential for photosynthesis, means less plant growth and thus less food for animals including humans.

Simply put, fewer large animals may mean less plant growth.

Not exact matches

The natural gas plants are necessary partly because of expected load growth, partly because of the intermittent nature of solar power and partly because of the planned retirement of around 3,000 megawatts of generation powered by less efficient coal and oil plants, he said.

GREG WARREN: With coal fired and natural gas plants continuing to generate around two thirds of the nation's electricity and renewables accounting to less than 10 percent, there remains plenty of room for growth.

«We have years where we have opened more plants and years where we have opened less, but we certainly have an appetite for growth,» McDonald says.

«Biochar stimulates more plant growth but less plant defense, research shows.»

The SUNY scientists have harvested more than 10,000 of them, but less than one - tenth of a percent form culture growths that can then be coaxed into whole plants.

«The mini-Horhizotron was designed to measure root growth of small plant material such as seedlings, herbaceous plugs, or woody plant liners normally grown in containers less than 3.8 L,» explained corresponding author Leslie Judd.

In contrast, plants with a modified nuclear genome expressed much less dsRNA and only slightly slowed down the beetles» growth.

The RGGI program also might not actually curb emissions, because power plants are already emitting less than the proposed cap — due to take effect on January 1, 2009, and based on projections from 2005 — thanks to slower than anticipated growth in electricity generation.

But those same chemical defenses can reduce the number of visits to the plant by pollinators such as bees, resulting in less pollination of individual plants and decreased growth.

Meanwhile, the extra CO2 began to stimulate the growth of a less common group of plants that includes many grasses.

The plants grown in torrefied biomass also took up more potassium than controls and less manganese, an element known to inhibit plant growth.

Basically, this says that branch growth is densest near the plant's center and gets less dense farther out following a bell curve.

Leskovar said with population growth and intense farming practices, maximizing crop yield in less fertile soils and mitigating plant growth under abiotic stress conditions are major challenges.

Slower plant growth means the land surface takes up less CO2 from the atmosphere.

1/3 or less is generally considered a good amount to allow continued growth of the plant.

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Your body produces less IGF - 1 (insulin - like growth factor 1) while fasting and on certain diets, such as a healthy plant - based diet.

Plant proteins are less complete in the sense that they lack one or more of the 10 essential amino acids puppies need as protein building blocks for growth.

I also understand that, even in «ideal» conditions where there is no nutrient or water shortage, there is a limit on the growth rate of plants such that plant growth responds less to CO2 increases above particular threshold levels [which vary from species to species].

If you get 38 % more growth with the same fertilizer the nitrogen content of the plant will be less.

10); plant growth is slower under elevated than ambient CO2 when NO3 serves as the sole N source and faster when NH4 C serves as the sole N source (5,12); deltaAQ (changes in the ratio of net CO2 consumption to net O2 evolution after shifting N nutrition from NH4 + to NO3 --RRB-, a real - time measure of leaf NO3 assimilation, decreases with increasing leaf internal CO2 concentration (9,12); and maximum NO3 reductase activity in vitro is usually less under elevated than ambient CO2 (refs.

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Plants response to higher CO2 levels result in less water utilation for photosynthesis (esp C4) which results in large gains of leaf growth (more growth for same water)-- forcing evapotranspiration to increase.

With a growing fleet of coal power plants running at less than 60 % of capacity and robust power demand growth, coal - fired generation is forecast to increase at nearly 4 % per year through 2022.

Happily enough, terrestrial also plants also require less water per unit of growth as CO2 rises because they don't have to open their stomata as much to get the respiratory exchange of gases.

Furthermore, fossil fuel and utility interests that have a stake in coal or natural gas plants simply want to slow the growth of their competition: for every solar installation on a home, means approximately one less customer paying for the electricity produced from fossil fuel plants.

However the 50 % more or less increase in plant growth as we approach 600 ppm will probably have more of an impact in sequestering CO2.

Though CO2 can increase the growth of plants, the plants may become less nutritious.

The IPCC underplay the role of CO2 in plant growth, but there's less focus on water because it requires discussion of natural cycles and patterns.

Climate change also makes soil less suitable for farming, as nutrients key to plant growth are stripped out by these same droughts and floods.

For example, additional capacity beyond existing plants is only required by 2020 if power generation growth exceeds 4 % year and coal plants are run at utilisation rate of 45 % or less.

Furthermore, reductions in plant growth due to unsuitable growing days could lead to feedbacks whereby climate change is even more extreme, leading to even less suitable conditions for plant growth.

The RGGI program also might not actually curb emissions, because power plants are already emitting less than the proposed cap — due to take effect on January 1, 2009, and based on projections from 2005 — thanks to slower than anticipated growth in electricity generation.

It is a very fast - growing plant, thus making it a sustainable source of paper - products, and uses less water during its growth as compared with cotton.

In 2011, the Chinese government for the first time set targets for a less polluting course of growth, and began rolling out new solar and wind plants.