Sentence examples for amount of moss from inspiring English sources

And a certain amount of moss and algae is natural - not something about which one should obsess.

These included the amount of moss, its rate of growth, the size of populations of microbes and a ratio of different forms, or isotopes, of carbon in the plants that indicates how favourable conditions were for photosynthesis at a particular point in time.

The samples, which date back 150 years, showed that the amount of moss and the rate of plant growth has significantly spiked since the 1950s.

The breeding status of birds in each nestbox was classified as one of the three categories: Empty box empty or with only a small amount of mosses, the typical material used by tits (less than 1 cm layer, usually much less), Nest Present advanced nest-building stage (more than 1 cm layer of mosses; usually almost a full nest present) or egg laying, and Bird Present eggs or nestlings present.

The pigment and fatty acid data from Iceland were also excluded from the comparison, as in all samples large amounts of moss (identified by microscopy and DNA sequences) that could not be separated from the algae before pigment and fatty acid extraction were present.

No amount of Spanish moss can obscure this basic fact.

"If you have a large amount of this moss in a peatland, you aren't going to get a very severe fire," Dr. Waddington said.

Ideas for building up the park have come and gone for years, but plans never solidified, mainly because of the extensive amount of peat moss in the undeveloped area and the lack of funding, said Dave Dominguez, city facilities, development and concessions manager.

To investigate the spatial and temporal variation in amount and composition of aromatic plants, nests from the three study sites were collected at day 14 15 post-hatching, enclosed in hermetic plastic bags and replaced by the same amount of fresh moss.

After they have dried out for a few days, put them into paper bags with a small amount of peat moss.

Limnic sedimentation ceased in the basin during this phase and the end of predominantly limnic conditions is marked by a decrease in the frequency of aquatic plants and an increase in the amount of brown mosses.