Sentence examples for drain carbon from inspiring English sources

Endoparasites can be seen as consumers that drain carbon (C) or energy from their host while simultaneously competing for limiting resources such as phosphorus (P).

Critics say the companies that use much of the 43 million tons of palm oil produced last year are contributing to deforestation, which releases greenhouse gases into the environment, drains carbon-trapping peat swamps and destroys orangutan habitats.

The anaplerotic flux replenishes carbons to the TCA cycle flux by importing C4 compounds as there is drain of carbon to biosynthesis.

The results indicated that the upper tributaries drained heavier carbon (δ13Corg = −20.4 ± 2.2‰) than the lower tributaries (δ13Corg = −25.4 ± 1.5‰) owing to the regional vegetation in the upper to lower basins.

Another beneficial effect is that high cell concentrations tend to down-regulate yeast cell growth, resulting in reduced carbon drain for growth.

In the mucA strain, respiration is still low, whereas the fructose uptake is strongly elevated to accommodate the carbon drain into alginate.

The effect of the drains on the carbon dioxide (CO2), Methane (CH4) and DOC fluxes at the study site was calculated for six scenarios using different emission factors from several studies in the Ireland, the UK and from the IPCC (Table 1).

The logging of whole trees releases all of their stored carbon and drains the planet's "carbon sink" or potential for absorbing more emissions.

As drains impact on the carbon dynamics and ecosystem function of peatlands, this technique could be a cost-effective way to identify and map the spatial extent of peatland drains over large area to refine land use and management plans.

Since many wetlands were drained before inventories of carbon pools took place, studies are limited by uncertain pre-disturbance extent and lack of carbon density measurements for pristine conditions as indicated by Bridgham et al. [7].

As these swamplands are drained and cleared, the carbon is being released into the atmosphere.