Sentences with phrase «plant biomass»

For more than 20 million years, the ups and downs of diversity in terrestrial large mammals were determined by primary production, i.e. net production of plant biomass.

To achieve this, scientists have to learn how to convert plant biomass into a building block for plastics and fuels cheaply and efficiently.

Where precipitation decreases were projected, the results were more complex due largely to interactions between plant biomass, runoff, and erosion, and either increases or decreases in overall erosion could occur.

... A healthy plant will have at least as much root biomass below ground as there is plant biomass above ground.

According to their data, it does not all go into creating plant biomass.

While deer consumed more native than introduced plant biomass overall, their food preference varied strongly by plant species.

In turn, humans and animals consume plant biomass; this is called the biological carbon cycle.

The balance is going somewhere else and the best science says most of it is going into an increase in global plant biomass.

Plants use energy from the sun to convert carbon dioxide from the air, and water and minerals from the soil, into the carbohydrates and other molecules that form plant biomass.

They found that the enzymes easily broke down the cellulose in plant biomass into glucose at temperatures up to 80 degrees Celsius.

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It was assumed that high animal diversity generates positive effects as the dominant consumption of animal prey lessens the pressure on plant biomass, or they are more exploitative on plants, since the numerous different animal species, due to their various preferences, consume more plant species.

In another experiment, bagasse was used as a starting plant biomass for ethanol production without washing / separation processes.

Sixty - two scientists from 19 countries spanning six continents studied the relationships between plant biomass production and species diversity, culminating in a paper appearing in Science, the world's leading journal for cutting - edge scientific research.

After dissolving plant biomass by the novel solvent, carboxylate - type liquid zwitterion, hydrolysis and fermentation were consecutively carried out in one reaction pot for conversion into ethanol.

Engineering plant biomass with increased hexose content by manipulating mannan biosynthesis

This makes auxin a significant driver of plant biomass creation on our planet.

He found that, as expected, plant biomass decreased while the reindeer were grazing, but it bounced back a few weeks after the animals left the area.

«Consider the Neocallimastigomycetes — these fungi are one of the most powerful degraders of plant biomass currently known and have a tremendous arsenal of plant cell wall degrading enzymes which may be useful for bioenergy production.

At each site Meyerson and Cronin measured plant biomass and defenses against herbivores and quantified insect damage by galling, chewing and sucking (aphids) insects to measure the effects of herbivory on Phragmites fitness.

Similarly, carbon and resulting sugars channeled to stems and leaves increases their mass and creates more plant biomass, a bioenergy feedstock.

«Basically, we found that any driver of environmental change that will cause a loss of plant diversity will in turn reduce the stable production of plant biomass through time,» Hautier said.

«For example, this could help us develop bacterial strains that are more efficient at converting plant biomass into liquid fuels.»

Tropical forest restoration: fast resilience of plant biomass contrasts with slow recovery of stable soil C stocks.

Through sequencing of ninety - nine moose stomach microbiomes, a study led by Anders Andersson (KTH / SciLifeLab) and Henrik Aspeborg (KTH) has provided new insights into microbial plant biomass degradation.

«Kirk routinely assumes the responsibility of liaison between cooperating programs and is responsible for data collections that range from soil sampling to plant biomass sampling to taking physiological measurements with delicate instrumentation,» Xue said.

«With these insights, we can now rationally deconstruct plant biomass into precursors for biofuels and other bio-based products.»

«It takes a lot of energy to break open plant biomass, with a pretreatment process involving chemicals, high temperatures and enzymes that break complex polymers into smaller sugars that can be turned into fuels.

This has significance and potential impact for agriculture and the national economy in the form of developing potential biofuels feedstocks, understanding host - pathogen interactions, and improving crop plant biomass.

Ordinarily, it is wasted when plant biomass, including cellulose, is converted into biofuels like ethanol.

Biofuels produced from unprocessed cellulosic materials such as plant biomass, as well as agriculture, horticultural and organic waste, are expected to meet growing energy demands without increasing greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the burning of fossil fuels.

Such connections would be much harder to detect from space for terrestrial plant biomass.»

Providing policy and financial incentives to use plant biomass for energy runs counter to the goal of protecting and regenerating ecosystems and thus threatens to greatly exacerbate global warming rather than mitigate it.

By the first half of 2017, Scotland had 9,309 MW installed capacity of renewable electricity - mainly comprised of 6,767 MW onshore wind, 187MW offshore wind, 1,632 MW hydro, 328MW solar and 196MW plant biomass.

Industrial wastes and other organic materials could easily be gasified to both produce electricity and fuel as well as to eliminate some of the land area needed for landfills — land area that could be used for other things, like harvesting plant biomass.

In contrast to conventional biofuels derived from plant biomass, the resultant... Read more →

«Scientific studies have shown that although mangroves, seagrasses and salt marshes account for less than 1 % of the total plant biomass on land and forests, they cycle almost the same amount of carbon as the remaining 99 %.

Stores carbon in soil and plant biomass by building organic matter, encouraging agro-forestry and forbidding the clearance of primary ecosystems.

«This study addresses this knowledge gap by showing that warming increased plant biomass, but also redistributes carbon into the soil resulting in no change in soil [carbon] stocks.»

So if we have 100 pounds of plant biomass above ground, and an additional 100 pounds below ground, this still represents only 30 to 40 percent of this plant's total energy production.

changes in plant canopy caused by shifts in plant biomass production associated with moisture regime;

However, there is a much broader significance for the analysis of microbes and organic matter in environmental matrices such as microbial mats and biofilms on plant biomass, soils, and sediments.

changes in litter cover on the ground caused by changes in plant residue decomposition rates driven by temperature, in moisture - dependent soil microbial activity, and in plant biomass production rates;

He has been a member of various federal research panels, served on several editorial boards and advisory committees in microbiology, and helped author reports for DOE on solar energy generation and the conversion of plant biomass into biofuels.

The Escherichia coli (E. coli) is able to tolerate the liquid salt used to break apart plant biomass into sugary polymers.

«The total amount of plant biomass will be much greater and far more diverse as we switch from making meat and cheese from livestock to plants.