Sentences with phrase «studied terrestrial plant»

They studied terrestrial plant waxes, a layer on the plant's surface protecting against dehydration and microbial attack, which are preserved in the sediment.

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This global biological recordbased on daily observations of ocean algae and land plants from NASAs Sea - viewing Wide Field - of - View Sensor (SeaWiFS) missionwill enable scientists to study the fate of atmospheric carbon, terrestrial plant productivity and the health of the oceans food web.

Ice - free areas of Antarctica — home to more than 99 per cent of the continent's terrestrial plants and animals — could expand by more than 17,000 km2 by the end of this century, a study published today in Nature reveals.

«[This] study has important global implications, because we know early plants cooled the climate and increased the oxygen level in the Earth's atmosphere,» conditions that supported the expansion of terrestrial animal life, says Tim Lenton, an earth system scientist at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom who was not involved with the work.

And because these floating plants absorb as much of the atmosphere's carbon dioxide - a major greenhouse gas - as do terrestrial plants, they are important to any global climate study.

Long - term CO2 enrichment studies confirm the findings of shorter - term experiments, demonstrating numerous growth - enhancing, water - conserving, and stress - alleviating effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 on plants growing in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

With respect to all land plants, for example, satellite - based studies reveal net terrestrial primary productivity has increased by 6 — 13 % since the 1980s.