Sentences with phrase «vegetation growing»

The Forest Building featured a cut away façade with vegetation growing within.
I thoroughly enjoyed the peaceful and quiet atmosphere at the ruins while exploring the structures as well as the natural and rugged jungle surroundings, with lots of unexcavated structures lost in the jungle and vegetation growing on and around many of the restored ruins.
The preliminary data supported Mundorff's hypothesis that buried bodies affected the vegetation growing over them.
Its fossils were buried in clay deposits left by a river, but these earliest kangaroo ancestors would have foraged amongst vegetation growing nearby and along the banks.
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Thick vegetation grew next to the riverbank, but the land by the ger was in rough shape.
This uphill migration of bands occurs as new vegetation grows upslope of the bands and old vegetation dies on the downslope edge.
Orchids, ferns and other types of vegetation grow along the road of Singapore and expand their territories to include walls.
He also noted how the natural vegetation grew back after the trees were removed and the areas burnt.
Areas where combustible vegetation grows that are at risk from wildfires have doubled in this time period.
Because different species may leave distinct chemical signatures in the soil that could in turn affect how vegetation grew at the site, it only made sense to test the technology on humans.
They release all these nutrients into the system, and they do so on their mounds, so vegetation grows much better.
Till the soil and watch vegetation grow from seed to fruit or vegetable.
The sky is a milky blue above us; no vegetation grows this far up so it is just me and him, the stones and the still black water.
A surprising variety of vegetation grows on the island, ranging from coastal heath to subtropical rainforests.
Tall grasses and scrubby vegetation grow along the beach.
The more it rains in the winter, the more vegetation grows, and the more there is to burn in the summer, which is invariably hot and dry.
The change happens as more vegetation grows in the warming Arctic, and forests struggle to survive against fire and insect infestations in warmer and drier conditions.
3) When permafrost thaws, vegetation grows and removes more CO2 than is released by the melting.
It's also a gross figure that is not offset by vegetation grown by humans.
When forests burn down that is the source and then the same area becomes a carbon sink when the trees and vegetation grow back.
After the vegetation grew for about 10 years, development began.»
Ah yes, I picture myself some day on my swing under (and over) the canopy (and carpet) of vegetation grown by my own two hands.

Not exact matches

Despite the green hues in this image, these rocky islands are too cold to sustain more than a smattering of low - growing vegetation.
In pain you will eat its produce all the days of your life.18 And thorns and thistles it will grow for you, and you must eat the vegetation of the field.19 In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken.
Many creatures have specific dietary requirements eating vegetation that does not grow in the Middle East.
Nonetheless, it was clear that birds and other fauna used coffee growing areas that were integrated with or close to native vegetation.
Eating less meat will free up a lot of agricultural land which can revert to growing trees and other vegetation, which, in turn, will absorb more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
This study looked at the ecological (vegetation, ants and birds) and economic (yield, revenue) aspects of coffee growing for eight cooperatives in Chiapas, Mexico.
The vegetation management issue has the potential to compromise the supply of locally grown fruit and vegetables.
Kangaroos» soft feet mean that «growing» a couple of kilos of kangaroo meat in Australia's fragile rangelands has much less impact on native vegetation than a couple of kilos of sheep or cattle.
Sure enough, there were pepper plants growing only a few yards away in the thick vegetation with 2 - 3 ″ fiery red pods ready for picking.
A patch of pepperweed can grow into a dense, monoculture stand after only a few seasons, degrading wildlife habitat, and outcompeting native salt marsh vegetation.
There are various products that can be used to make vegetation unpalatable to woodchucks, but not all are meant to be used on food grown for human consumption.
Mass Audubon scientists are leading efforts to monitor the vegetation of salt marshes over time, particularly where the Phragmites are growing.
For now, the increases in CO2 soaked up by new vegetation — including trees now growing where shrubs used to dominate — more than compensate for the amounts of the gas released by thawing permafrost, the team says.
Determining the rate of old carbon release from permafrost had been a challenge for researchers, since vegetation that grows in thawed permafrost in forest and tundra systems releases its own modern organic carbon into soils, which readily decomposes and dilutes the «old carbon» signal from thawing permafrost soils.
Ranchers drove sheep and cattle through the area, and herds chomped up understory vegetation and left soils primed to grow even more trees.
The layers start with a waterproof membrane (possibly PVC) other than the roof itself, then a geotextile filter cloth to prevent the medium from penetrating too far down, a root penetration barrier, a drainage layer, a second geotextile cloth for water retention, the rooftop growing medium and finally drought - tolerant vegetation.
Recent studies in Japan have virtually all found that the abandonment of small, traditionally managed rice paddies results in less biodiversity among the seminatural grasses and weeds that grow on paddy margins and in the insect populations that depend on that vegetation.
They found that the solitary insects grew more gregarious as the vegetation became more patchy and, thus, forced them into closer quarters.
With the help of a graduate student, Williams will look for a kind of mammoth proxy: sporormiella, a fungus that lives in the dung of large herbivores, and grains of ancient pollen that can reveal what kind of vegetation once grew around the lake.
Scrubby vegetation, made up of grasses, ferns and fast - growing pioneer bushes and trees, was all that remained after the forest had been stripped to allow tin mining and vegetable cultivation.
In effect, O3 delivers global warming via two routes: the 0.35 watt - per - meter - squared (w / m2) extra heat it traps directly and the as much as 15 percent less vegetation that grows worldwide as a result of O3 damage.
The SPOTS facilitate plants growing in a small, custom - designed hydroponic growth chamber with computerized systems to monitor the vegetation's progress.
«As the nutrients start cycling faster and the vegetation starts growing faster, that should stimulate all the vegetation on the tundra.
We're seeing areas of formerly treeless, windswept tundra transition into shrub vegetation as the climate warms and different things grow.
Fast - growing vegetation in wetland ecosystems captures the carbon.
The rest is barren, stripped of vegetation and shaved bare by the modern peat industry to provide British gardeners with peat for their potting compost and grow bags.
First, the end of rabbit overgrazing allowed native vegetation to grow back, providing food and shelter for mice and mulgaras.
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