In early July 1947, a ranch foreman, W. W. Brazel, found strange, shiny material littering the ground near Roswell, in southeastern New Mexico.
White fire-extinguishing material littered Interstate 44, and the highway was closed for hours in the eastbound direction.
There may be complex organic material littering the place, but conditions are simply too cold on Titan for life to evolve from this material on the surface.
We believe that the procedure optimized here to obtain 31P-NMR spectra for natural samples such as soil and humus-rich materials (litter and compost) may become useful to foster studies on total and organic P dynamics in the environment.
Conversely, the soil organic carbon content is significantly lower in the grazing land compared to the exclosure, probably the consequence of reduced amount of organic materials (litter fall) and exposure of micro-aggregate organic matter to microbial decomposition through weaker physical protection of organic matter in the soil.
The truth is that those materials litter the American landscape like no other industry or source of pollution ever has.
If, upon examination, you see non-biodegradable materials littered in the compost like plastic or glass, do not use it.
I've decorated my version of it with splashy views of the Manhattan skyline, more books than I have room for, unkempt piles of writing and research material that litter every available surface.
The loss of grazers and browsers might have resulted in the accumulation of excessive plant material and litter, promoting more frequent and destructive wildfires, which would explain the rise in charcoal particles following the decline in coprophilous fungus spores.
The three subsamples of each plot corresponding to the same layer were combined to one sample and sorted to the three functional groups [grasses, non-leguminous forbs and leguminous forbs (later called legumes)] and dead plant material (=standing litter).
