Sentences with phrase «other plant litter»

This research helps bridge the gap between studies of how leaves and other plant litter decompose and soil organic matter, which contains decomposed litter and other bio-based materials.

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

Not exact matches

Also within the soil is organic matter — decomposed plant litter, soil microbes, other organisms, and root systems.

According to her, the research included four of the five functionally distinct carbon pools whose study is recommended by the United Nations (UN) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): aboveground biomass (live plants), dead organic matter, leaf litter (layer that contains a combination of fragments of leaves, branches and other decomposing organic matter) and soil (up to 30 centimeters (cm) in depth).

«If the litter layer is gone, and the soil is bare and clumpy, the earthworms may help weedy plants come in along with other invasive plants that we don't want.»

Others agree that plants provide good materials for natural cat litter.

Some natural cat litter is made from paper, pine or sawdust, and wheat or other plant products.

With no other options (like a potted plant or a rug) your cat should relearn to use the litter box.

Made from sustainable wood and plant materials, this litter is not a watered down version of something else like other lightweights.

Most kittens will automatically use kitty litter in preference to other surfaces, except perhaps the soil of a potted plant.

You can add a dropper - full to a spray bottle filled with spring water, and use it to spray a room, carrier, car, around litter boxes or plants, or other problem areas.

The Australian blue gum, for example, releases toxins in its leaf litter which prevents other species of plants from growing in the soil surrounding it.

What keeps soils alive, and productive, is the compost or humus of leaf litter, animal dung, withered roots and other decaying vegetation in the first metre or so of topsoil: this in turn feeds an invisible army of tiny creatures that recycle the nutrient elements for the next generation of plant life.

Carbon fixed into plants is then cycled through plant tissues, litter and soil carbon and can be released back into the atmosphere by plant, microbial and animal respiration and other processes (e.g. forest fires) on a very wide range of time scales (seconds to millennia).

The plant will consume about 700,000 tons per year of biomass; about 90 percent of that will be poultry litter (mostly turkey), with the remaining 10 percent encompassing other agricultural biomass.