Sentence examples for a barren environment from inspiring English sources

The ability to get nutrients from animals rather than soil gives a plant a competitive advantage in a barren environment, and known insectivores often inhabit such nitrogen-poor habitats.Genlisea's putative traps are modified underground leaves.

Also, pigs that have spent time in an enriched environment react more negatively to being subsequently housed in a barren environment.

Pigs provided with foraging enrichment during lactation or after weaning tended to have higher serum BDNF concentration than pigs housed in a barren environment, and this effect was significant for pigs enriched during lactation when sampled 5 weeks after weaning.

There was also an interaction between current and past environment, whereby pigs that started in the enriched environment were subsequently less likely and slower to approach the hatch when moved to a barren environment than pigs intially housed in the barren environment.

A barren environment can affect behavior [44] and physiology [45], and sparse evidence suggests that removal of enrichment can have negative physiological [31], [39] and psychological [46] effects.

De Jong et al. concluded that piglets raised in a barren environment had an impaired long-term memory compared with piglets housed in an enriched environment.

"It was an emotionally barren environment," he told me.

It is a bleak and barren environment situated beside a nuclear power station, and while the house is closed to the public, visitors still go to pay homage from a distance.

But many aid officials worry that the famine victims are going to soon find themselves in a bleak and barren environment once back in their home villages and that dispersing them will complicate an already strained aid effort.

The lower pollen concentration and lack of Cyperaceae and hydrophyte pollen in sample P9 may indicate an arid and barren environment.

There's no doubt that Tommy's psychological and physical needs are not being met in this barren environment and that a transfer to a sanctuary would do his welfare good.