Sentences with phrase «nitrogen fixing trees»

More carbon will sometimes be stored in forests if a bigger variety of tree species is planted along with key species - such as nitrogen fixing trees - that are known to contribute strongly to carbon storage, according to researchers at The University of Western Australia.

More carbon will sometimes be stored in forests if a bigger variety of tree species is planted along with key species - such as nitrogen fixing trees - that are known to contribute strongly to carbon storage, according to...

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In the summer, there is higher humidity beneath the nurse trees, and legumes such as mesquite fix nitrogen in the soil — a perfect fertilizer for the chiltepíns.

The tree, being a legume like peanuts, is nitrogen - fixing, so it serves as a host tree for other wild plants such as chiltepins.

However, salmon have a relatively high ratio of N - 15 to N - 14 compared with nitrogen - fixing sources such as alder trees.

Black locust and autumn olive trees would fix nitrogen, allowing more goldenrods, sunflowers, and white snakeroot to move in along with apple trees, their seeds expelled by proliferating birds.

Sanchez later led a project in Peru that dramatically increased rice yields and headed a center in Kenya that upgrades soil, and thus expands food production, by planting nitrogen - fixing trees in crop fields.

Exploiting habitats that are often or mostly out of water required new symbiotic relationships to contain and move water, including the fusion of some fungi and algae to create lichen in communities with bacteria that survive extreme desiccation on land while breaking down rock into soil, and the association of mycorrhizae fungi and the root tissue of new vascular plants — culminating in trees that pump water high into the air — to exchange mineral nutrients (e.g., phosphorus) and usable «fixed» nitrogen from the atmosphere for photosynthetic products.

It can also affect the ratio of different species of trees by removing the competitive advantage of species that were better at fixing nitrogen.

Imagine high - tech buildings so in tune with the biosphere that they inhabit the landscape like native trees, making oxygen, sequestering carbon, fixing nitrogen, purifying water, providing habitat for thousands of species, accruing solar energy, building soil, and changing with the seasons — while also generating remarkable productivity and providing beauty, comfort, and delight.

Designed by Jerome Osentowski over 20 years ago, the garden at Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute is a well - established 1 - acre polyculture garden that features an over-story of fruit trees, which shelter a mix of perennial and annual vegetables — many of which seed themselves, while others are planted traditional — as well as nitrogen fixing shrubs to maintain fertility.