Sentences with phrase «than plant trees»

But as communities organize they do more than plant trees.

For many areas of the Amazon, conserving existing secondary forests may be much cheaper and even more efficient than planting trees.»

No home improvement gives you more bang for your buck — or more enjoyment for your dollar — than planting a tree.

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We all plant seeds for shade trees under which we may never sit; however, H. Wayne Huizenga planted far more than most.

In 2013, the city had more than 95,000 residents and is known as the «Druid City» for the large number of water oak trees plants along the downtown streets in the 19th century.

You can keep sheep if you're a nomadic herder, but if you settle down and become a pastoralist, planting grain and fruit trees, etc., it becomes much more difficult to follow a nomadic God... Is there something in here about being ready to be followers, rather than settlers?

In 24 hours on July 11, more than 80,000 volunteers planted 49.3 million tree saplings throughout Northern India on public land and along roads and railways.

If the reason for using containers is to expand the size of the garden rather than eventually to bring the plants indoors, then size and appearance is not a problem and the gardener can use fairly large containers such as plastic trash cans, wooden boxes or barrels, styrofoam picnic coolers, and the large plastic, fiber, or metal pots used by greenhouses for shrubs and trees.

But then again, coconut trees produce more sugar per acre of plants than regular cane sugar.

So far, they have planted more than 2,000,000 trees.

While mucus is constantly being produced and degraded in a normal gut, the change in bacteria activity under the lowest - fiber conditions meant that the pace of eating was faster than the pace of production — almost like an overzealous harvesting of trees outpacing the planting of new ones.

Rather than forming compact plants, they branch out widely, intertwining into the nurse trees and giving the pod collector a hard time.

In the past decades the farm has planted more than 50,000 shade trees, creating natural buffers around streams and water springs.

Steve Lohr, who helped his father, Jerry — the «J» in J. Lohr — plant the family vineyards when he was 10 years old, speaks proudly of his dad's decision to leave the oak trees on the vast tracts of property that make up J. Lohr Vineyards, rather than squeezing every last dollar from the ground.

Moon Lake announced it was planting more than 6000 native trees and shrubs to provide a buffer for three of its North - West Tasmanian dairy farms, in collaboration with Cradle Coast NRM.

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It can be more effectively accomplished with the action of planting the seeds, rather than trimming the trees.

At last year's event, more than 400 plants and shrubs were planted, 30 truckloads of invasive species were carted away, three miles of trails were cleared of fallen limbs and trees, and 21 campsites were cleaned up.

More than 200,000 trees were planted in nearly 30 different places across the continent.

Michael Bloomberg and Bill de Blasio spoke at a ceremony marking the planting of more than 1 million trees in the City under the «MillionTreesNYC initiative.»

She also said that citizens should realize that whether they are cutting down trees or burning fossil fuels, they are putting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than plants can remove.

«We've discovered that most trees have regular periodic changes in shape, synchronised across the whole plant and shorter than a day - night cycle, which imply periodic changes in water pressure,» says András Zlinszky...

Therefore, by the mid-1800s, Europeans were in fact planting more trees than they were harvesting, causing a net increase in forested area by 2010.

The tree of life shows us that flowering plants are Earth's most complex green algae, fungi are closer to animals than to plants, and we are essentially very strange fish.

Nevertheless, the eukaryotic stem on the phylogenetic tree of life spawns many branches before one gets to the split that separates the ancestors of plants from the ancestors of animals, which seems to have happened more than a billion years ago.

The report estimates that Beijing planted more than 30 million trees and bushes to establish 720 green spaces in the city center.

The genetic map of the coffee tree studied, produced in the 1980s by IRD in Cote d'Ivoire, also had the advantage of being a homozygous plant (two identical sets of eleven chromosomes), which is easier to analyse than natural heterozygotes.

Initially around 15 tree species were planted, including fast -, medium - and slow - growing timbers, but now the area has more than 70 species of trees, says FRIM's director general Abdul Latif Mohmod.

The type of plant it was — more tree fern than conifer — forces a major rethinking of «how modern - scale forests actually came into being,» says Stein.

The city has also launched several programs to turn down the climate's thermostat, such as the Million Trees project (more than half a million have already been planted around the city) and painting flat roofs with a white or «cool» coating that reflects the sun's energy.

Understory plant cover for both native and nonnative invasive species was positively associated with the AM fungi, however, invasive species cover increased at a rate 12 times greater than native species as AM - tree - dominance increased.

This is because large animals disperse large seeded plant species often associated with large trees and high wood density — which are more effective at capturing and storing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than smaller trees.

Using the largest dated evolutionary tree of flowering plants ever assembled, a new study suggests how plants developed traits to withstand low temperatures, with implications that human - induced climate change may pose a bigger threat than initially thought to plants and global agriculture.

They found that plants are flowering and trees are leafing 10 days earlier today than they were 100 years ago.

Yet Archaefructus sinensis is a small, fleshy, aquatic plant that looks more like an herb than a flowering tree.

In fact, says Helliker, infrared imaging of trees has already shown that their leaves can be warmer than the surrounding air by several degrees, as was reported last year by Christian Körner, a plant ecologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland.

Botanists have been building a case for more than a decade that Amborella trichopoda is the only known survivor of a plant lineage that branches off at the very base of the genealogical tree of living flowering plants.

The finding that they can germinate on ash plants and in forest debris means more strains of the fungus can proliferate in any one cluster of ash trees than previously thought, increasing gene flow between the strains and possibly leading to faster fungal evolution.

The research is also distinctive in that it considers 10 classes of plants and trees, rather than a few, said Song Feng, a climatologist at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, who did not participate in the study.

However, a new University of Minnesota study with more than 1,000 young trees has found that plants also adjust — or acclimate — to a warmer climate and may release only one - fifth as much additional carbon dioxide than scientists previously believed, The study, published today in the journal Nature, is based on a five - year project, known as «B4Warmed,» that simulated the effects of climate change on 10 boreal and temperate tree species growing in an open - air setting in 48 plots in two forests in northern Minnesota.

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Scientists measured how much carbon dioxide the artificially warmed plants respired — released into the air via their leaves — and learned that over time, the trees acclimated to warmer temperatures and increased their carbon emissions less than expected.

Like other trees, the oil palm plant serves as a natural reservoir for carbon and is more effective at sequestering carbon than other major vegetable crops.

Three years later, the Japanese sent more than 2,000 young trees to be planted near the Potomac River as a symbol of the growing friendship between the two nations.

«We need to do more in the actual tree system rather than relying solely on extrapolating from model herbaceous plants.»

Plants that take up CO2 do not sequester it for very long unless they are hardwood trees, and what matters for us is our ability to grow CROPS more efficiently than weeds.

If it combines multiple insects, trees, plants and other things, it is potentially more stable than if it has only a single insect and a single tree.

«Previous studies at a few sites had shown that large trees suffer more than small trees during and after droughts, and our theory suggested this should be a globally consistent pattern, but this project was the first to test this hypothesis globally,» said Los Alamos National Laboratory's Nate McDowell, a renowned forest ecologist and plant physiologist who coauthored a paper in the journal Nature Plants highlighting this research.

In a study, which appears in the December 22 issue of the journal Nature, the team constructed an evolutionary tree of more than 32,000 species of flowering plants - the largest time - scaled evolutionary tree to date.