Sentences with phrase «of wood decay»

The research team behind the present investigation analyzed and compared the genomes and characteristics of three strains of wood decay fungi, including the highly successful Serpula lacrymans.

Not exact matches

Otherwise, hard - to - decay materials such as wood or bark chips will have to be raked out of the plot each year prior to rototilling.

Upon walking in, it has that perfectly evocative scent of old wood, metal and gently decaying books.

They said the collapsed bridge makes it difficult for them to access their farms, especially during the rainy seasons and some farmers have sustained various degrees of injuries by falling from it into the river while crossing, due to decayed wood slabs on it.

Salvage logging refers to the practice of harvesting fire - killed trees («salvage») to extract economic value from them before the wood decays.

Understanding wood decay in forests is of special concern in the tropics because tropical forests are estimated to harbor 96 % of the world's tree diversity and about 25 % of terrestrial carbon, compared to the roughly 10 % of carbon held in temperate forests.

«Measuring trees with the speed of sound: Non-invasive sonic technology measures wood decay in living, tropical trees.»

That's because they underwent a process in which silica — likely emitted by a nearby volcano — saturated the tree and took on the shape of the wood's internal structure as it decayed, preserving its 3D cellular structure.

Figure 1: Hyphae of a wood - decaying fungus found growing on the underside of a fallen log.

At the same time, beetle damage and drought have devastated Canada's boreal forests, causing it to slip into being a net emitter of carbon, as decaying wood releases carbon to the atmosphere.

A novel paper led by Inger Skrede (University of Olso, Norway) reveals a number of features that can explain why the dry to fungus Serpula lacrymans is the most successful invasive wood decay fungus in the built environment.

«Indeed, pools of wine, woods of flesh,» Chen said, echoing a classical description about the decaying Shang dynasty palace, as he stepped into a steaming hot pool.

Look more closely and the woods are home to a diversity of flora and fauna, from ancient horsetail ferns to 200 species of fungi, many of which grow on dead and decaying trees.

By manipulating the wood and other objects to weather and age them, Drew reminds the viewer of time's passing and the natural processes of decay and regeneration.

The cyclical nature of life — decay and resurrection — plays a central recurring role throughout Leonardo Drew's elaborate and enthralling installations and multilayered sculptures, which are often composed of found objects, wood, and fabrics.

The gestures executed are playful yet exact — clapping wood blocks overhead in unison, for example — as the element of sound delay relates specifically to the medium and the emptied out environs of a decayed city.

Favouring elemental materisls, such as wood, metal and stone, her vocabulary of forms has also included farm implements, often revealing signs of decay and corrosion.

Against a backdrop of dated and dingy wood paneling, the original flooring has been supplanted by a carpet of green moss, its emerald hue providing unexpected beauty in the midst of decay.

Although often mistaken for accumulations of found objects, his sculptures are instead made of «brand new stuff» — materials such as wood, rusted iron, cotton, paper, and mud — that he intentionally subjects to processes of weathering, burning, oxidation, and decay.

The corrosion and decaying of materials - bleached and peeling paint, rotten wood and rusty nails - is executed artificially with masterful skill.

Leshko's new work captures the transition and decay of urban life through classic dollhouse - scale (1:12) sculptures made from wood and paper.

«Decaying matter (dead wood and leaf litter) is processed so efficiently because of the abundance of decomposers including bacteria, fungi, and termites.»

(c) Different assumptions about the utilization and decay of wood products and consequently, the CO2 sequestration in them;

It stresses the use of wood as a renewable energy source and as a raw material, pointing out that wood products store carbon for their entire lifetime, until they decay or are burned.

They are by natural processes like the water cycle, growth and death of plants and animals, decaying of wood and other biodegradable materials, volcanic activities, etc..

Firewood must be the greenest of power per the ability to harvest waste wood for valuable energy and avoid decay of rotting woods that emit CO2 and methane.

Scanning electron micrograph of wood being decayed by the white rot fungus Punctularia strigoso - zonata.

There is little doubt that biomass sources of CO2emissions, both anthropogenic (prescribed burning, wood and wood product combustion and decay, landfills, human and animal respiration, and fermentation) and natural (wild fires and decay), add CO2 to the atmosphere.

If you really wanted to sequester carbon, one of the most effective methods is to plant fast - growing trees (i.e. Pulp trees) and sequester the resulting wood products where they would not decay and release CO2 back into the environment (like under the clay cap of a landfill).

The FWPA study found that the average life of a house was 61 years, but wood product failure or decay were not the main reasons for demolition; these were site redevelopment (58 per cent) or the building no longer suiting (28 per cent).

And the study also found that «the average life of a house was 61 years, but wood product failure or decay were not the main reasons for demolition; these were site redevelopment (58 per cent) or the building no longer suiting (28 per cent).»