Sentences with phrase «rich forest soils»

In rich forest soils of moist valleys, dense forests, thickets, by streams and near shaded moist rocks in China.

Aucuba japonica, commonly called spotted laurel, [1] Japanese laurel, [1] Japanese aucuba [1] or gold dust plant (USA), is a shrub (1 - 5m) native to rich forest soils of moist valleys, thickets, by streams and near shaded moist rocks in China and Japan.

Aucuba japonica, commonly called spotted laurel, [2] Japanese laurel, [2] Japanese aucuba [2] or gold dust plant (U.S.), is a shrub (1 — 5 m, 3.28 - 16.40 ft) native to rich forest soils of moist valleys, thickets, by streams and near shaded moist rocks in China, Korea, and Japan.

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Given that we are rich when the world is poor, that we cling to our nuclear arms as if world extermination were a noble risk, destroy ancient forests, gouge the landscape, pollute the soil, water and air, that we copulate and abort with unrestrained abandon — how then are we to interpret Jesus» words, «It is what comes out of a person that defiles,» so as to come up smelling like roses?

Humus - rich soil in the Wetterstein Forest near Garmisch - Partenkirchen.

Since epiphytes are cut off from the rich pool of forest floor nutrients, each species has to extract what it needs from the air, rainwater and scant canopy soil, with hundreds of plants tapping into the same 1 - inch acidic layer that forms from decomposing organic material.

And a metal - rich region of the galaxy will take longer than a metal - poor one to produce a lot of RR Lyraes — just as a forest growing on poor soil will take longer to produce a lot of 100 - foot trees.

Despite the often lush appearance of the terrain, the soil in a rain forest is typically nutrient - poor compared with, say, the soil of the American Midwest, which is rich enough to support most of our farming.

The chimps are basically imposing a «natural tax» on farmers growing crops near the nutrient - rich soils of the forest,» said Shane McGuinness, lead author on the research and PhD student in Geography at Trinity, who conducted the interview - based study with the help of the Great Apes Trust and local conservation workers.

The result: soil erosion has been reduced in critical watersheds, thousands of acres of biodiversity - rich indigenous forest have been restored and protected, and hundreds of thousands of women and their families are standing up for their rights and those of their communities and so are living healthier, more productive lives.

The geography of the Hudson Valley is immensely rich: The terrain features sandstone, red beds, granite cliffs, dense forests and charming lakes, as well as highly fertile soil for farming, such as in the Black Dirt Region created from an ancient glacial lake, and a rich biodiversity of flora and fauna.

Brands seems to have good intentions with this commitment, which will require the company to buy palm oil exclusively for cooking purposes that protects all forests and peatlands, swampy areas of carbon - rich soil.

Although estimates vary, studies suggest that about one million hectares (2.4 million acres) of Indonesian rainforest is cleared and lost each year, with about 70 % occurring in forests on mineral soils and 30 % on carbon - rich peatland forests.

Forests growing in nutrient - rich soils are able to absorb five times as much carbon from the atmosphere as those in nutrient - poor soils.

Together we've already protected 3,100 acres, conserving breathtaking views from some of the valley's most popular and important historic sites — including the homes of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and renowned painter Frederic Edwin Church — as well as unspoiled forests, Hudson River shoreline little changed since Henry Hudson sailed past it and 1,000 acres of farmland containing some of the nation's richest soils.

We are also cutting and burning forests that would otherwise help remove some of the added CO2 from the atmosphere, and have converted agriculture to an industrial model that also runs on carbon - based fuels and strip - mines carbon - rich soils.

The mangrove forest's ability to store such large amounts of carbon can be attributed, in part, to the deep organic - rich soils in which it thrives.