Sentences with phrase «roof plant research»
As green roof specialists, we are active in green roof plant research and maintain several test roofs at our nursery.
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To test the effects of having a green roof in your line of sight, the research team showed study participants pictures of either your average concrete roof or a plant - covered one and then tested their ability to complete a boring, attention - sapping task.
Jose E. Garcia - Arraras, a biology professor at the university's biology research center on the Río Piedras campus, said a power plant designed to keep scientific samples refrigerated broke down and the roof of a critical building gave way to flooding, rendering «samples, libraries, cell lines, etc. lost.»
The findings, published in Environmental Research Letters, highlight the importance of heat - mitigation strategies and infrastructures such as green roofs — in which vegetation transfers moisture from the earth to the atmosphere by evaporation of water and transpiration from plants.
We are constantly acquiring and studying new varieties of plants, and collaborate on green roof research projects at educational institutions and nurseries in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.