Sentence examples for fine detritus from inspiring English sources

The lamination would have resulted from sedimentation in the quiet waters of a lake or shallow sea, in which either carbonates were precipitated from solution or clay minerals and other silicate minerals were transported as extremely fine detritus.

While attached to the adult shell, the juveniles benefit from food particles in the fine detritus thrown up into the water column by movements of the adult.

In natural environment, freshwater bivalves diet is composed of phytoplankton, fine organic detritus and bacteria (Frischer et al. 2000).

Findings from these studies reveal diets dominated by fine particulate detritus, usually of undetermined origin, mixed with lesser fractions of algae, other plant matter, and occasionally benthic invertebrates.

Coral islands created by accretion have developed from rubbly reef rock broken off from the reef by storms and waves and mixed with finer reef detritus.

Only finer terrestrial detritus might be brought to the core site location by ocean currents.

It is the people who sweep the foyers, clean the smoking lounges and empty the ashtrays who notice the finer details in detritus.

Some studies have found forest attributes such as management practices and disturbance history to have an effect on coarse and fine woody debris biomass at small scales [22, 23] while others have found little correlation between these variables and woody detritus at large-scales [24, 25] such as examined in this study.

It was concluded with only medium confidence that coarse and fine woody debris carbon stocks may be at risk of becoming net emitter of carbon under a global climate warming scenario as increases in coarse or fine woody debris production (sinks) may be more than offset by increases in forest woody detritus decay rates (emission).

Some studies have found forest attributes such as management practices and disturbance history to have an effect on coarse and fine woody debris biomass at small scales [ 22, 23] while others have found little correlation between these variables and woody detritus at large-scales [ 24, 25] such as examined in this study.

Given the preliminary results of this study and the rather tenuous status of coarse and fine woody debris carbon stocks as either a source or sink of CO2, further research is suggested in the areas of forest detritus decay and production.