Sentence examples for extending growing from inspiring English sources

His team's data show that in recent years plant growth has increased in high-latitude regions because climate change is extending growing seasons there, he said.

Similar long-term follow-ups would be useful also in other passively wintering species, such as the raccoon dog, which is likely to benefit from the extending growing season and shorter winters.

It would also lead to longer growing seasons and you could extend growing a little further north into some of the colder areas.

The massive boon for aquaponics is of course the extended growing season it offers; despite lecturing that we must eat in season, there seems little appetite to adjust our diet accordingly.

The MPs recommended that farmers should seek to extend growing seasons by, for example, using giant greenhouses such as the vast Thanet Earth building that now produces one-third of all the UK's cucumbers and tomatoes.

On Tuesday, Mr. Hershberger, who was 42, and his fellow Amish farmers were traveling in a van to a nearby county to learn about unheated greenhouses that can extend growing seasons and increase crop yields.

The extended growing season in Mediterranean, Alpine, and South-eastern regions (Fig. 3) likely drive the simulated carbon sink over those regions in our study.

However the persistence of cold episodes in spring and in fall along with the shorter snow coverage suggest that the positive effect of an extended growing season might be counteracted by the detrimental effects of increasing FDD.

Plantation growth may increase from rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide but may decrease from rising temperature and increased water loss (evapotranspiration). Increased temperature may also increase productivity in some regions and for some species, such as an extended growing season in higher altitude regions and reduced frost.

The photoperiodic response of the pitcher plant mosquito (Wyeomyia smithii) has shifted toward shorter, more southern day lengths in response to an extended growing season, demonstrating an adaptive evolutionary response to global warming in eastern North America (Bradshaw and Holzapfel 2001).

An extended growing season may provide the reindeer with better pasturage during the summer and they would be able to survive more serious winters, if they were shorter than they are today.