Sentences with phrase «on plant composition»

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Plants, animals, and especially humans add their own distinctive chemical imprints on top of that bulk composition.

«If we know the chemical composition of the nuclear waste coming out from those plants, we can definitely work on it.»

To find out what eats what in this ecosystem, fisheries ecologists Jason Turner and Jay Rooker of Texas A&M University in Galveston first analyzed the composition of fatty acids in Sargassum, a green algae that grows on seaweed fronds, and phytoplankton — microscopic organisms that photosynthesize like plants.

According to the authors, this is changing the composition of the forest — mixing formerly low - altitude grasses with high - altitude trees — which could potentially affect the entire ecosystem, particularly the animals that rely on specific plants to survive.

«We found the composition of the vegetation, and in particular the heather, had a greater effect on how fast plant litter decomposes than the 1 °C warming.

We detect such currents in muscles, nerves, secretory glands, and electric organs of fish as well as in plant tissue -LRB-...) It seems likely that all these currents have a similar, if not the same basis, and that their strength and potency depends on the structural conditions and chemical composition of the cells making up each organ.»

Because plants alter the chemical composition of the wax on their leaves depending on how dry or wet the climate is, the leaf wax from the sediment core's layers provides a record of past fluctuations in rainfall.

For my post-doctoral project, I decided to focus on the question, «to what extent can atmospheric pollutants, such as CO2 and ozone, exert a selective effect on woody plant species, and how are the resulting changes in the genetic composition of the plant community likely to affect the animals that feed on them?»

When using rosemary, you may come across different chemotypes, which simply means that the oil has a unique chemical composition dependent on the environment in which the plant was grown.

The chemical composition of the plant is reportedly what gives it the stress - busting effects, and those chemicals depend on the environment in which it is grown.

I like nuts and seeds as part of my whole plants vegan diet, and eat them daily, but I do keep a close eye on my total calorie intake, fat intake and composition and percentage of calories consumed.

While visiting places featuring different animals, plants, or even varying composition of the planet's atmosphere, we can focus on exploration, acquisition of raw materials, or the combat against various predators.

The range of perspectives presented to the viewer is also broad: One has both feet firmly planted on the ground in Catherine Murphy's severely cropped and concentrated depictions of nonspectacular scenes, has bird - like flight in the softly glowing paintings of David Bierk, and is engulfed in Rick Shaefer's surreal magnifications of overgrown foliage and insect dynamics whereas the simple compositions of Brenda Zlamany's free - floating creatures make for visual disorientation.

He embedded the resulting fragments in cement, creating a formal composition similar to the translucent outgrowths found on cannabis and other plants.

Over time, his innovative sharp - focus effects helped him to paint detailed and smooth - surfaced compositions that best suited his self - proclaimed style of Precisionism - a style of realism that focused on linear precision so as to capture the exact geometric shapes of skyscrapers and other similar structures, like industrial factories, machinery and associated plant.

Focusing her attention on specific aspects of the weather, the beach shore, architectural details and plants that grow in these areas - Gallace's oil paintings are realized with wet - on - wet brushwork into formal compositions and completed on small wooden panels.

Using plants, snow, ice, light, rocks and sticks, Johnson painstakingly creates intriguing sequences that are a skillful play on movement and composition.

Carbon residence time depends on the turnover rates of plant parts and the mortality rates of individuals, processes modeled using baseline rates, climate sensitivities (including fire), and competitively induced mortality, and are affected indirectly through shifts in vegetation composition, although not all these processes are treated in all models (SI Text).

Dryland ecosystems comprise a substantial proportion of total land cover and constitute a significant component of global biogeochemical cycles1, 6, yet owing to strong limitations by water and nutrients7, 8, undisturbed drylands are typically thought to maintain relatively low annual rates of ecosystem processes — such as plant photosynthesis5 (but see refs 9, 10)-- and to harbour biological communities that change composition on relatively slow timescales11.

23 Effects on Plants Climate change could alter the range of plant species and could change the composition of plant communities.

Consider the facts: the climate system is indicated to have left the natural cycle path; multiple lines of evidence and studies from different fields all point to the human fingerprint on current climate change; the convergence of these evidence lines include ice mass loss, pattern changes, ocean acidification, plant and species migration, isotopic signature of CO2, changes in atmospheric composition, and many others.

In particular, if focuses on the following areas: reducing methane emissions from ruminant animals by modification of plant composition; reducing nitrous oxide emissions by making the use of nitrogen more efficient both in terms of going from soil to plant and in the animal; enhancing carbon sequestration through plant breeding; reducing emissions from fertiliser production.

These findings are based on the isotopic composition of plant leaf waxes in marine sediments.

Anti-inflammatory effect of plant compositions of Tibetan medicine in vitro on early rheumatoid arthritis