Sentences with phrase «symbiotic association»

Soil building practices such as crop rotations, inter-cropping, symbiotic associations, cover crops, organic fertilizers and minimum tillage are central to organic practices.

Environmentally - friendly methods like crop rotation, inter-cropping, symbiotic associations and minimum tillage are used to improve soil, encouraging natural formation and structure and creating more stable systems.

However, the symbiotic association is vulnerable to changes in environmental conditions, in particular to increases in seawater temperature.

«We show that the evolutionary success of insects is partially based on a symbiotic association with gut microbes, which co-evolved with their hosts over millions of years.»

These observations could be interpreted as evidence of some kind of symbiotic association, or den commensalism, between the two animals.

Coral reefs edification is based on the formation of a calcium carbonate skeleton by scleractinian corals ad on the symbiotic association that many of them establish with photosynthetic Dinoflagellates from the genus Symbiodinium.

Lichens, which are a symbiotic association of a fungal and photosynthetic organism, are generally not considered plants in the purest sense of taxonomy, although earlier classification schemes viewed them as plants.