Sentence examples for dead material from inspiring English sources

The nutrients in the dead material are being withheld from the soil.

Let the plant's leaves freeze, then bring in the pot and cut off the dead material.

It's important to cut the dead material out of the garden so you don't disturb the bulbs coming up.

Otherwise, removing dead material is simply a head start on one of the first tasks of spring.

Dead material can and should be removed, but don't prune anything else until next summer, right after flowering.

In a natural setting, this would mean that the dead material would persist longer, adding yet more fuel for wildfire.

The process of decomposition of dead materials is of crucial importance to the continued health of the forest because plants depend on rapid recycling of mineral nutrients.

One could eventually use dead lichen material and or other dead materials with similar properties (e.g. albedo), e.g. white pebbles.

Many live as saprotrophs decomposing and absorbing nutrients from dead materials while others have evolved the ability to be pathogens deriving their nutrients from living or dying hosts.

It supports that those highly enriched PCWDEs in plant pathogens are likely to be utilized within pathogenic interactions with a host, rather than decaying dead materials.

(6) In contrast, the proportion of decay attributed to comminution by detritivorous insects and mites will be greater than in other forms of litter due to a greater length of time that these detritivores can feed on the dead materials.