The metabolic processes that are responsible for plant growth and maintenance and the microbial turnover, which is associated
with dead organic matter decomposition, control the cycle of carbon, nutrients, and water through plants and soil on both rapid and intermediate time - scales.
Not exact matches
Or, as Merchant (1980) puts it: «As the sixteenth - century
organic cosmos was transformed into the seventeenth century mechanistic universe, its life and vitality were sacrificed for a world filled
with dead and passive
matter» (p. 105).
A new study led by researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science reveals that land use in the watersheds from which this «dissolved
organic matter» originates has important implications for Bay water quality,
with the
organic carbon in runoff from urbanized or heavily farmed landscapes more likely to persist as it is carried downstream, thus contributing energy to fuel low - oxygen «
dead zones» in coastal waters.
In the long run, the excess algal growth can have devastating impacts on the health and age of a fresh water lake or river, causing eutrophication to speed up, where lakes and other water bodies fill in
with dead algae and other
organic matter and eventually turn into dry land.