Sentences with phrase «planting small fragments»
The researchers have figured out how to cultivate new coral much faster than it would naturally grow in the wild, by planting small fragments in specialized tanks and underwater nurseries.
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Small fragments developed into large corals and were planted on the artificial reefs.
Joiner, who helped to develop the space - based method for monitoring plant fluorescence, is eager to take measurements using OCO - 2, the small footprint of which should allow researchers to detect fluorescence signals from plants in more fragmented landscapes such as Europe's.
As pockets of forest habitat are isolated, their edges are exposed to harsher, brighter, drier conditions and plant and animal dispersal between habitat fragments is made more difficult; in addition, habitat fragments may be too small to sustain populations of some species.