Sentence examples for affects decomposition from inspiring English sources

But my wife, who is not the least bit squeamish, walked right up to the scene, took a good look and chatted with the police about the way immersion in cold water affects decomposition.

We conclude that the level of urbanization affects decomposition indirectly through alterations in leaf litter quality even over short urban to periurban distances.

He is particularly interested in how organisms and their interactions affect decomposition and carbon stocks.

Surprisingly, fertilization of J. effusus only insignificantly affected decomposition rates between litter types.

The existence of the reinforcement did not affect decomposition the matrix.

Litter input from deciduous trees influences the characteristics of the litter layer, which could affect decomposition dynamics.

Decomposition rates in the rotations with arable crops were not higher than those for permanent grassland indicating that tillage did not affect decomposition rate and that SOM dynamics were dominated by the quantity and quality of the substrate input.

Locally, urbanization might affect decomposition within urban boundaries.

Alterations in environmental and soil parameters between urban and periurban sites of this study were apparently not strong enough to significantly affect decomposition processes.

The rapid decomposition at the common garden experiment with its drastically different environment (higher temperature, higher humidity, lower acidity, and lower electrical conductivity than at the urban and periurban decomposition sites) highlights that more pronounced environmental alterations would result in a significantly affected decomposition.

These habitats, soils and waste heaps, are hotspots of heterotrophic activity, in which epigeic earthworms interact intensively with microorganisms and other organisms within the decomposer community, thus strongly affecting decomposition processes [2], [12], [16].