Sentences with phrase «vegetation growth through»

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Evidence suggests that the Indians, through the burning of remnants of logs, branches, weeds, crop remains, felled secondary growth vegetation, near - by forest litter, and cut material brought to the fields along with kitchen - fire carbon and ash from the houses, modified the fertility of their soils.

The researchers believe the greening is a response to higher atmospheric carbon dioxide inducing decreases in plant stomatal conductance — the measure of the rate of passage of carbon dioxide entering, or water vapor exiting, through the stomata of a leaf — and increases in soil water, thus enhancing vegetation growth.

28 July 2014 Five young men are cutting their way through dense rainforest vegetation in the northernmost part of Colombia — forest that was already old - growth when the conquistadors first set foot on the continent five centuries ago.