Sentences with phrase «like plant population»

This information has a variety of implications for corn breeding as well as management practices like plant population.»

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Though a plant delivery service might work in a dense urban population, people who like gardening tend to live far outside city centres.

The most passionate argument in the book, in a chapter on declining Jewish population, pleads that, after the Holocaust, Jews are an endangered species, deserving protection and enhancement for the sake of diversity, like the bald eagle: «You have friends who work to rescue endangered animal and plant species, so you know why this matters.»

The world's exploding population has made it profitable for big business to raze forests so it can plant mega crops like soy and oil palm; meanwhile, on a much, much smaller scale, subsistence farmers often clear trees so they can plant crops to feed their families and bring in small amounts of cash.

Some may be hesitant to embrace meat industry giants like Tyson getting involved in the plant - based sector, but we are reaching a time where the question of how we are going to feed a growing population that is set to reach nine billion by 2050 can not be ignored.

Jeff Whitworth, associate professor of entomology, says endangered bee populations can be revived through simple practices like growing native plants.

Like plants in a garden, the diverse populations of microbes that normally line the intestinal tract, called the microbiota, are essential to human health.

Atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide belched out by cars and power plants soar, while amphibian populations plummet and glaciers dwindle like an ice cube in your palm.

The decline in herb - like plants hastened the decline in the woolly mammoth population, leading to a cycle that decreased the plant diversity further (8 February, p 12).

In the words of John Mcdougall regarding fuhrman, essylsten can campbell, «I would like you to join me in recognizing and commending the efforts of all three men for effectively communicating to the world's population the importance of eating a primarily plant foods diet.

You'll do things like remove invasive plants, collect seeds, and help count native animal populations.

Evidently, he was also aware of the diverse plant population and like us was there for lunch.

I recently learned of the phrase «slow changing stocks» — things like infrastructure and population growth which start out small, maybe a new power plant here or an oversized family there — but determine how we use resources far into the future.

The idea is that this gas would then be shipped to population centers in the east, where it would burn much more cleanly in power plants and detoxify the air in cities like Beijing.

On plagues and climate, let's remember that the unclimate like cold of Europe was driving folks inside, furthering the spread of the Black Plague, and that the return to warmer climates (particularly on the north Med), lead to the flowering of technology (along with a lot of great plants Columbus brought back), aided by a reduction of population pressure.

All bees pollinate something like 90 % of the world's commercial plants, so the general decline of bee populations is a real worry.