Sentences with phrase «limit plant growth»

Here we use climate projections under alternative mitigation scenarios to show how changes in environmental variables that limit plant growth could impact ecosystems and people.

Insufficient amounts of nitrogen gas *, they say, will limit plant growth regardless of how much extra carbon dioxide is available.

Dessication in cold periods limiting plant growth with dust storms circling the planet.

Not exact matches

The researchers found another subtlety in the Amazon's response to rainfall, which has led to new insights on a question under debate: Are seasonal changes in plant growth more limited by lack of sunlight or lack of water?

There I studied the factors that limit the growth of plants on different acid soils, and in particular, the ways in which plants have adapted to hydrogen or aluminium toxicity.

«Water is often the most limiting factor to plant growth.

For example, a lack of iron limits the growth of microscopic plants in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica and elsewhere, a fact that prompted marine biologist John Martin to famously muse: «Give me half a tanker of iron, and I'll give you the next ice age.»

The amount of N2 that is fixed is important because N is an essential nutrient for plant growth and is available only in limited supply in arctic ecosystems.

Before this study — the largest of its kind — conducted by a team led by Professor Dirk Inzé, scientists had little insight into the genes and genetic processes that drive some plants to limit their growth under drought conditions while others grow normally.

It was previously assumed that plant growth was generally resource - limited, meaning that plants would only grow as large and fast as they could photosynthesise.

However, Dr Pullen and his team present evidence that plant growth is actually «sink - limited,» meaning that genetic regulation and cell division rates have a much bigger role in controlling plant growth than previously thought: «We are proposing that plant growth is not physically limited by Net Primary Productivity (NPP) or the environment, but instead is limited genetically in response to these signals to ensure they do not become limiting.»

The modeling study suggests that the herbivore - induced release of protective chemical compounds limits population growth of both the pollinator and the flowering plant, thereby temporarily and indirectly restricting the growth of herbivore populations and preventing extinction.

Only two of the 11 models used to project future warming in the most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) considered the effects of limited nitrogen on plant growth; none considered phosphorus, although one paper from 2014 subsequently pointed out this omission.

The results were clear: the plants absorb the arsenic - sulphur compounds and their growth is visibly limited.

The regional climate changes that higher CO2 will bring, and their effect on these limiting factors on plant growth, such as water, also have to be taken into account.

This is due in part to the fact that other conditions (e.g. availability of nutrients such as Nitrogen and Phosphorus) appear to quickly become limiting, even when carbon availability is removed as a constraint on plant growth when ambient CO2 concentrations are sufficiently increased.

Greenhouse experiments have shown that WET ™ plants produce 22 % more growth with limited water.

Many scientists suspect that imprinting, in both animals and plants, happens because the paternal genome promotes growth of the biggest possible offspring, while the maternal genome promotes conservation of limited resources.

WSMV reduces root growth, thus limiting the plant's ability to extract soil water and potentially decreasing water - use efficiency.

A wild tomato plant, Solanum peruvianum, from field - study sites in the Rio Fortaleza Valley in the Ancash Province of Peru.The modeling study suggests that the herbivore - induced release of protective chemical compounds limits population growth of both the pollinator and the flowering plant, thereby temporarily and indirectly restricting the growth of herbivore populations and preventing extinction.

Second - class proteins such as pulses (dal, sprouts), soya, nuts and other plant proteins are limiting in one essential amino acid and hence can not support muscle growth alone.

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].

Your general point about there being multiple limits on plant growth is perfectly valid though.

CO2 is one of the limiting factors re: plant growth.

Re # 53: First off, it is unclear whether CO2 is the limiting factor for plant growth (particularly now).

This is an exercise in what can be done, on a small scale, which can prepare civilization for a world with resource limits and a finite solar collecting area needed for plant growth.

I've also lived in both northern New England and the Southwest, and my perception of the limiting factors of plant growth is affected by my failures at growing vegetables in both climates.)

So in most places you can add as much CO2 as you want and the plants won't grow one iota faster because their growth is limited by one or more of the other factors.

There are short term gains from C02 causing increased plant growth, but this is already nearing its limits.

Low atmospheric CO2 levels may limit growth and water use efficiency in plants.

The other study actually shows the opposite, namely that adding CO2 increases plant growth up to a limit imposed by nitrates, and if nitrates are then also added, growth gets enhanced even more.

You ought to eventually «rate limit» again when plant growth is high enough to suck up the CO2 enough to CO2 concentration limit again.

xerophyte a plant structurally adapted for life and growth with a limited water supply, especially by means of mechanisms that limit transpiration or that provide for the storage of water

A recent study in Nature Geoscience by Will Wieder and three colleagues performed modelling to determine what effect limiting N and P supplies would have on plant growth in a RCP8.5 scenario.

Plankton growth is not influenced by increasing CO2 levels, as that is not the limiting factor in seawater (in contrast to land plants).

However, sluggish power demand, abundant gas supply and renewables growth are expected to continue to generate headwinds for coal use and limit the prospects for any resurgence in construction of new coal power plants.

Existing U.S. nuclear power generating plants operate under increasingly competitive market conditions brought on by relatively low natural gas prices, increasing electricity generation from renewable energy sources, and limited growth in electric power demand.

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I would not have expected this to be the case as the decomposition process involves oxidation reactions that are exponential functions of temperature while the alarmists have been been arguing for years that the plant growth process is limited by, and dependent on, factors other than just temperature.

The pulses of silt, mud and gravel make streams murkier and limit growth of aquatic plants at the base of the food chain.

But CO2 is only beneficial if it is the limiting factor in plant growth — hardly likely outside of a greenhouse.

2) Discuss what are optimum global temperatures and CO2 concentrations before we set limits because cold weather causes more fatalities than hot weather and there is evidence that the present warm climate and enhanced CO2 are contributing to increased plant growth (Bigelow et al. 2014).

Of course, we do know that the rate of photosynthesis (the rate - limiting step in the growth of most plants) depends on temperature.

Reductions in the number of days with suitable climate conditions for plant growth also underscore an internal discrepancy of Earth System Models: while these models project dramatic enhancements of NPP [5,20,36], our results show multiple climate variables becoming limiting for plant growth, particularly in tropical areas, which could result in considerable reductions in future NPP (S4 Fig).

The unprecedented rate and number of climate variables becoming limiting for plant growth could challenge the capacity of species to adapt, with the potential to negatively impact terrestrial ecosystems and trigger climate feedbacks.

Consideration of an upper thermal limit and interactions with plant growth thresholds in additional climatic variables resulted in the opposite trend: global decreases in the number of suitable plant growing days by 2100 (Fig 2).

CO2 starvation is NOT a limiting factor in plant growth outdoors.

Regions of the world where large increases in plant growth are expected are likely to be most limited by availability of nutrients, Wieder says.

When the team included future limits to nitrogen (red line), they found extra plant growth dropped to 29 %.

Our assumption is that the limited number of nuclear power plants now under construction worldwide will simply offset the closing of aging plants, with no overall growth in capacity by 2020.