Sentences with phrase «more terrestrial sources»

Not exact matches

«The general idea is that the closer to the terrestrial source, the more color the carbon will have,» Cory says.

Only 10,000 marine compounds have been isolated so far, he points out, compared with 150,000 from terrestrial sources, so that you're much more likely to come up with a brand new molecule if you look in the oceans.

In terrestrial d18O records, the precipitation patterns, timing and sources are important — more so in the tropics than at high latitudes though.

This would probably be more impressive if most terrestrial and satellite radio stations, CDs, MP3, and Bluetooth streaming sources didn't already display this data right there on the touchscreen.

Lafferty started out believing from review of previous published literature that «infectious disease was preventing the recovery of sea otters, and the most likely source of infection of Toxoplasma gondii was terrestrial runoff containing oocysts defecated by cats,» but when he and colleagues tagged 135 California sea otters in 2009 and followed them for four years, they found that «Counter to expectations, sea otters from unpopulated stretches of coastline,» around Big Sur, are less healthy and more exposed to parasites than city - associated otters,» from the Monterey Bay area, who have more exposure to fecal matter from cats.

Secondly, and more importantly, nature could provide humans with a helping hand to reach those lofty CO2 concentration targets through the combination of natural terrestrial sinks becoming less effective, along with new sources of carbon emissions appearing as a result of rising global temperatures.

Researchers found that although terrestrial living things absorb more CO2 every year than what they are producing, they are still a net source of nitrous oxide and methane.

By contrast, in mid - to high latitudes on all continents, substantial shifts in forest structure toward more rain - green, summer - green or deciduous rather than evergreen forest, and forest and woodland decline, underlie the overall drop in global terrestrial carbon sequestration potential that occurs post-2030, and approaches a net source by about 2070 (Figure 4.2; 4.3).