Sentences with phrase «other tiny plant»

The rare Manhattan - sized icebergs, which may become more frequent in coming decades because of climate change, release a vast trail of iron and other nutrients that act as fertilisers for algae and other tiny plant - like organisms in the ocean.

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With her ex-husband Ian, she founded Robins Australian Foods with three main product lines: Wild Lime, a high - end line featuring the tiny fruit of the wild lime, a true citrus; Robins Bush Foods, which feature other indigenous plants such as mountain pepper and the bush tomato; and Hot Oz, a line which combines native plants such as lemon myrtle with hot chillis.

In early summer there would be lots of tiny, bright - green mantid babies all over the plants, and as the summer progressed they would diminish in number (one reason being that they tend to eat each other), grow in size, and turn darker in color.

Some sing to the plants while picking them others whistles, but all dress our plants for pure precision and deep care.The shade - grow green tea leaves are then carefully stone - grilled and grind into 1000 mashes so tiny it can pass through 1000 holes per square inch, making our tea not only easily mixed but also easily absorbed by our body.

The banksia and other members of the protea family extend roots across the soil surface to collect the tiny amount of nutrients that come with rainfall or decaying plant matter.

Nutrients help sustain phytoplankton and zooplankton, the tiny aquatic plants and animals at the base of the food web that support other aquatic life, including prey fishes.

He mashed up disease - riddled tobacco leaves and then passed the juicy pulp through a porcelain filter fine enough to trap everything down to the tiniest bacteria.When even that filtered fluid infected other plants, a world still acclimating to Louis Pasteur's germ theory now had an even tinier class of pathogens to contemplate.

Anyone awed by towering redwoods should offer thanks to stomata, the tiny pores on the leaves of all trees and other vascular plants.

«Due to advanced technology used at U.S. - based coal burning power plants, mandated by the Clean Air Act and the Environmental Protection Agency, most of these nanoparticles and other tiny particles are removed before the final emission of the plant's exhaust gases,» Hochella said.

Tiny ants may seem like an odd food source for black bears, but the protein - packed bugs are a major part of some bears» diets and a crucial part of the food web that not only affects other bugs, but plants too.

Some poems are sad, others stirring, but they all provide tiny seeds of inspiration to plant in your life this spring.

Pollution from vehicle exhaust, power plants, wood stoves, and other sources contain tiny particles that can also contribute to lung cancer.

Microgreens are tiny versions of vegetables, herbs, and other plants and are about one to two inches long with the stem and leaves still attached.

This usually occurs at times when outdoor molds release their spores or when plants release tiny pollen particles into the air to fertilize other plants.

Thus I had one tiny reluctant foot in the first half of that historically fateful year, and the other firmly planted in the second half.

A variety of organisms can be found on and around the Channel Islands, from top predators like bald eagles and sharks, to intertidal residents such as seastars and barnaces, to the tiniest parasites living on other animals and plants.

A variety of organisms can be found on and around the Channel Islands, from top predators like bald eagles and sharks, to intertidal residents such as seastars and barnacles, to the tiniest parasites living on other animals and plants.

McLeary uses tiny succulents quite often in her baubles, as they are low - maintenance, and hardier than other plants.

That's bad news for the climate, because the ocean is responsible for absorbing at least one quarter of the CO2 that humans load into the air through fossil fuel burning and other activities — and it is the action of foraminifera and other tiny shell - building animals, along with plants like algae that lock it away safely for millennia.

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.

Blooms can be a blessing to other marine species, as these tiny floating plants often feed everything from zooplankton to fish to whales.