Sentences with phrase «terrestrial plant food»

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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.

Given the dearth of terrestrial plants on islands in the Gulf of California, Polis and Hurd set out to discover where the energy in the spiders» food came from.

We appreciate this leafy plant today because it provides a whole - food source of B vitamins, a rare find in terrestrial plants!

Soil water is perhaps the most precious resource of the Earth because if it becomes destroyed or disappear there will be neither food nor water for terrestrial plants and animals like people.

There are a lot of hypothetical deliberations on where this «missing» CO2 is going: into increased terrestrial plant photosynthesis or soil absorption, dissolved into the ocean, where it is buffered chemically or converted by photosynthesis from phytoplankton, entering the food chain and possibly getting converted to carbonates that eventually end up on the ocean floor, into limestone through weathering or dissipated into space, etc..

These include the establishment of effective protected areas that would encompass a significant proportion of terrestrial, aquatic and aerial habitats, halting the degradation of forests and other native land cover and restoring those that have already been degraded; shifting diets to plant - based foods; reducing fertility rates by ensuring access to family planning services; and developing new green technologies.