Sentences with phrase «of dead plant»

That's troubling because a huge amount of dead plant life, packed with carbon, is frozen in Arctic soils.

«A potentially very large Arctic source of methane to the atmosphere is the decay of organic matter in the form of dead plant, animal and microbial remains that have been frozen in shallow permafrost for tens of thousands of years,» it said.

So to the fires burning in Russia will have worldwide effects as the torched peat bogs whose layers consist of dead plant materials will end up releasing large quantities of carbon dioxide into the air accelerating the greenhouse effect and making the air nearly unbreathable.

In nature, these fungi serve as a catalyst — speeding decomposition and ridding the planet of megatons of dead plant matter.

Throughout the experiment, they measured the effects of each species mix on three important salt marsh functions: overall grass growth (productivity); the rate of dead plant removal (decomposition); and how fast tidal or storm surge water percolated through the marsh (filtration).

That leads to more microbial biomass being produced compared to the amount of dead plant material — which contributes to the build - up of organic material in the soil.»

Oil not initially degraded has become buried under the yearly pile of dead plant material, which is deposited after each growing season.

It remains unclear whether tropical forests, such as those of the Amazon or Congo, produce the same effect, due to much faster decomposition of dead plant matter in these climes.

Laborious research in the 1960s by the late pioneering U.S. ecologist Eugene Odum seemed to indicate that forests achieve a balance between the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) absorbed by growing trees and plants and the amount of CO2 released back into the atmosphere by the decomposition of dead plant matter.

Fungi are the primary decomposers of dead plant and animal matter in many ecosystems, and are commonly seen on old bread as mold.

Sedimentaryrocks near the earth's surface contain interconnected spaces for water toinfiltrate and bacteria to grow and move, plus the remains of dead plants andalgae once at the surface — the apparent food of many organisms.

But often these elements are incorporated into parts of dead plants and animals that are sinking to the ocean floor,» explains the lead author Dr. Thomas Browning of GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel.

These raised bogs carry a mass of specialised plants, mostly Sphagnum mosses, on top of a shallow mound of the compressed and waterlogged remains of dead plants.

Not exact matches

«Big manufacturing and grow facilities have had their roof blown off, there is water in their manufacturing rooms, equipment damaged, no light for plants and most are dead,» said Goodwin Aldarondo, the president and CEO of Puerto Rico Legal Marijuana.

Any of you may also baptize your dead pets, last year's tomato plants and anything else you want.

Think about it: God used dead dust to form Adam and planted the tree of life to keep him alive.....

The vast majority of land plants would be dead and rotting.

This kind of rebranding makes about as much sense as claiming that, since it's based on long dead plants that originally got their energy from the sun, oil is actually solar power.

We continue to pour on the nitrogen, even as scientists report the existence of 50 «dead zones» where nitrogen has flowed from fields to water, and resulted in an excess of plant growth, a depletion of oxygen and the extinction of life.

would you agree that the earth was created dead and the hovering spirit of God planted the seed of life befor he said «let there be light»?

«One night I was coming back to my cart and there was a dead man laying right there,» Arthur said, pointing to a small patch of ground planted with bushes.

1) FOSSIL RECORD: made of not only bone to stone fossils, but also amber, dehydrated corpses, footprints in mud / ash to stone fossils, leaf and insect imprints in various forms of stone, along with many other forms of preservation of dead animal / plant life from times long ago.

I remember a Sunday sermon which I now call «The Dead Plant Sermon» where I accused the church of being a dead plant that had withered up and dDead Plant Sermon» where I accused the church of being a dead plant that had withered up and Plant Sermon» where I accused the church of being a dead plant that had withered up and ddead plant that had withered up and plant that had withered up and died.

However what happens from the time one is planted in the ground until the resurrection of the dead is a different story.

Last fall, with my cookbook tour, I never pulled out the basil plants that took over much of the garden, so their dead stalks still stand in a creepy post apocalyptic row.

It has been empirically proven with the dead husks of numerous plants.

The only time I prune pepper plants is to get rid of the dead wood after they've over-wintered in the greenhouse.

Dormant plants will shed all leaves and so no signs of growth, however they are not dead.

Over wintering is a fickle affair but you can improve your chances of success by: - Growing species that are more cold tolerate like Pubescens - Improving climatic conditions by bring plants indoors - Removing ripe pods before over wintering - Cutting back woody stems and removing dead or diseased growth to keep pest & disease at bay - Controlling water regimes If your attempts at over wintering are littered with more failures than success all is not lost.

I think that Linnaeus was dead - on when he named the cacao plant Theobroma Cacao, or «Food of the Gods».

Arsene chose to (1) declare the deal dead, saying Monaco aren't selling him (2) plant a story in the media that we're confident of landing him and Van Dijk next summer.

My mother had the greenest thumb of anyone I've ever known, besides my friend Ray who regularly brings plants back from the dead.

The Democratic chairman of the Westchester County Board of Legislators said Thursday legislation to support Republican County Executive Rob Astorino's planned lawsuit to stop or delay the closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant is dead on arrival.

The truth about Britain's current nuclear programme is that the dream of numerous new plants coming on - stream, funded by investors and assisted by favourable planning and development arrangements, is as good as dead.

A lawsuit seeking to halt the shutdown of a long controversial nuclear power plant located at Indian Point in Buchanan is dead on arrival after staunch opposition from Westchester County's Democratic lawmakers.

After Astorino, a Republican, announced that he would seek to send Cuomo's plan to dismantle a longstanding nuclear power plant at Indian Point into a full - on environmental impact statement, county Board of Legislators Chairman Michael Kaplowitz, a Yorktown Democrat, called the move «dead on arrival.»

Insects bind together nearly every ecosystem by pollinating 80 percent of food plants and recycling dead organic matter.

Now, a much - reduced version of the pipeline seems to be the most prominent solution: This year, bidding began to construct a pipe that would bring briny Red Sea wastewater from a new desalination plant in Jordan to the Dead Sea.

Of the traditional Aboriginal plant extracts tested, Witchetty Bush (Acacia kempeana) and Australian sandalwood (Santalum spicatum) both stimulated glucose uptake and Dead finish (Acacia tetragonophylla), Turpentine bush (Beyeria Ieshnaultii) and Caustic weed (Euphorbia drumondii) significantly reduced fat accumulation in fat cells.

Jaenicke's 15 - year study found that more than a billion tons of bioaerosols — bits of proteins and cells, animal fur, dandruff, dead plants, and insects — are sloughed off into the atmosphere every year, an amount about 20 times greater than previously estimated.

In and around lakes and streams, this influx in nitrates can lead to plant growth out of whack with the local ecosystem's ability to handle it, resulting in oxygen - free «dead zones» devoid of marine and riparian life altogether.

In one of the few such studies, scientists examined how dead leaves, roots, and other plant litter decay over a decade.

Scientists have been giving us new views of the prehistoric world in the past decade that hinge on the realization that «biomolecules» such as ancient DNA and collagen can survive for tens of thousands of years and give important information about long - dead plants, animals, and humans.

Yet fungi are the dominant decomposers of plant - derived lignocellulose, the major structural component of all plants, releasing nutrients from dead material to the soil, vital for agriculture.

In the most recent (December 2003) issue of Progress in Oceanography, researchers suggest this whopping increase was caused by a sudden influx of dead algae rich in carotenoids, pigments used by some plants for photosynthesis.

But it's been hard to measure exactly how much of the nitrate comes from fertilizer, rather than other sources such as dead plants and soil.

Following the asteroid hit, most of the plants and animals would have died, so the survivors probably fed on insects eating dead plants and animals.

Everyone knows fossil fuels come from long - dead plants, but Jeffrey Dukes wanted real numbers: How much plant matter does it take to make a gallon of gasoline?

The new views of the prehistoric world hinge on the realization that «biomolecules» such as ancient DNA and collagen can survive for tens of thousands of years and give important information about long - dead plants, animals, and humans.

Heather was found to have a particularly helpful role in keeping carbon locked in as dead plant litter, and in reducing the numbers of worms below ground which would otherwise break down the plant material more quickly.