Sentences with phrase «microscopic plants called»

Cores taken from under the open ocean are often stained green from microscopic plants called diatoms that settle to the seafloor after dying, but this core contained none.

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The team used stable isotope labels to trace plant litter - derived carbon and nitrogen as the litter decomposed and formed soil, specifically the fraction of soil called organic matter, which comes from plant inputs and microscopic animals.

In 1996, soil microbiologist Sara Wright of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Beltsville, Maryland, found that arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi — a type of microscopic fungus that lives symbiotically with plant roots — oozes a sticky protein called glomalin.

There, the native plants» prosperity depends in a large part on microscopic organisms called arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.

The fungi send out long microscopic threads called hyphae that create a subterranean network enabling plants to exchange nutrients.

Birds are known to transport seeds internally and externally, but scientists had not linked them to the long - distance dispersal of microscopic plant spores, called diaspores.

The first place that carbon moves from the atmosphere into the ocean is at its sun - warmed surface, where microscopic floating plants called phytoplankton consume carbon dioxide for energy (just like grass and trees).