Sentences with phrase «plant behavior for»

For six summers from 2010 to 2015, Theobald tracked environmental conditions and plant behavior for 48 species at 70 field plots, each one square meter, along the southern slope of Mount Rainier.

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(Reuters)- U.S. automaker Tesla Inc on Monday was hit with a class - action lawsuit claiming its California production plant is a «hotbed for racist behavior.»

If instead of dropping to the lowest common denominator in our behavior, we each personally raise the bar to where Jesus set it, imagine how many trees of life would be planted, watered by streams of living water, providing shade and Heavenly fruit for the whole world to enjoy.

These values and behaviors are posted throughout Stampede's offices and plants for everyone to see, and each item carries equal weight.

The rapid expansion of the North Slope's snow - free season has had consequences for water resources, wildlife behavior, the plant growing season and more, the research team reported in the new paper.

The first is changes to the environment that significantly alter habitat, in effect» «altering the rules of the game,»» as Arens puts it, so that physical characteristics and behavior that once proved adaptive for certain organisms — dinosaurs, for instance, that relied on flowering plants for food — no longer work as well.

They analyzed 24 nest characteristics, including shape, material, and building behaviors — such as tree - hollowing, leaf - stripping, or plant - macerating — looking for common materials or methods shared by different species that would point to a recent common ancestor.

This behavior was associated with one specific plant gene, coding for a protein with unknown function.

This behavior is essential to the well - being of plants, as the journey through the gut seems to be a rite of passage necessary for some seeds to germinate, says Kevin Burns, an ecologist at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Wertz and Wynn hypothesized that, instead of imitating an adult's behavior outright, children tend to go for specific types of entities — in this case, plants — but only when an adult does so first.

Other researchers have looked beyond changes in behavior or physical features for «parallel evolution» in the genes, finding, for instance, that different insects alter the same DNA to help them feed on toxic plants.

Compare and contrast the behaviors of hunters and gatherers with those of people who cultivated plants and raised domesticated animals for food, in order to demonstrate the influence of the Neolithic revolution on the daily lives of people.

Animal Care: skill for understanding animal behavior, needs, characteristics Plant Care: ability to work with plants, i.e., gardening, farming and horticulture.

American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals — Contains useful information including lists of poisonous plants, disaster preparedness plans, and an animal behavior section.

Many ideas have been proposed for the cause of the plant - eating behavior but none have been proven.

If you dog eats grapes, tomatoes or tomato plants or garlic look for the common symptoms associated with poisoning - diarrhea, vomiting, weakness or lethargic behavior.

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If your 14 year old cat is constantly meowing for food and starting to use your indoor plants as a litter tray, you may see these behaviors as nothing more than a nuisance.

So rather than change utility or power plant behavior, Boulder's tax acts as an education tool for consumers to lower their carbon footprint and a revenue source for green programming.

«If the cap is above what power plants are emitting, we won't see any change in their behavior,» said Derek K. Murrow, director of policy analysis for Environment Northeast, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization.

Ever since the very cold weather of the 2014 polar vortex, the utility industry has been debating how to deal with the behavior of gas - burning power plants that did not contract for gas deliveries for power production in the coldest weather, and the simultaneous failure of coal plants due to weather conditions.

Kelsey and Martin explain how insurers» unwillingness to settle on a consistent — or even articulable — definition of the term has been a double - edged sword, at once providing for disclaimers over a broad swath of behavior but also planting the seeds of defeat.

But subtle nonverbal behavior can also be important for planting seeds of rapport — seeds that can blossom into a meaningful relationship over time.