Sentences with phrase «soil than grass»

The shrubs draw more water from the soil than grass does, and their woody biomass magnifies the fire risk.

Not exact matches

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Make sure the soil stays moist but do not let your Cat Grass stand in water for more than an hour.

Compacted or thinner soil may favour woody weeds rather than grass and give less animal protein per acre.

Finally, as I have understood the claims for holistic management, carbon sequestration occurs (to the extent that it in fact occurs) primarily in soils rather than in the biomass of the grasses themselves.

Desert and bare soil have a higher albedo than forests or grass.

Increased rainfall variability was more significant than rainfall amount for tall - grass prairie productivity (Fay et al., 2000, 2002), with a 50 % increase in dry - spell duration causing 10 % reduction in NPP (Fay et al., 2003) and a 13 % reduction in soil respiration (Harper et al., 2005).

In general, trees are darker than grasses, which are darker than bare soil.

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Using perennial bioenergy crops (e.g., switchgrass, silver grass, willow, eucalyptus) rather than annuals (e.g., corn) reduces emissions and raises carbon sequestration in soil.