Sentence examples for layer of litter from inspiring English sources

Suppression of fire since settlement had allowed a thick layer of litter to accumulate, and the foreign grasses cope better with this than do the natives.

In the United States, protocols for cleaning broiler chicken houses range from removing the upper layer of litter between every flock to reusing litter for multiple flocks before removal (Morison C, personal communication).

Plant material was obtained from a natural population of S. hirsuta growing over exposed limestone with a thin layer of litter (dead leaves) in the understorey of a beech (Fagus sylvatica) forest.

Scatter a few handfuls of shredded mail evenly over the top of the layer of litter--don't use newspaper--it turns to mush and makes the problem worse.

Clymo's peat bog growth model has been used as the conceptual foundation in published simulation models, but in these models the structural and functional layers of litter, acrotelm and catotelm are not dynamically integrated.

Put an even layer of the litter in the litter box--about 3 5 inches (7.6 12.7 cm) deep, depending on the size of the box and number of cats you have.

These Umbrisols are usually deep and have a non-permanent organic layer O of litter accumulation; a deep and dark A h horizon (thickness ≥40 cm) with low bulk density (0.60 0.70 Mg m−3); and a B w horizon, sometimes not well developed or detectable (masked by the high content of SOM; [27, 28]), increasing the bulk density to 1.0 Mg m−3 (measured to −50 cm soil depth) downward.

Avoid dumping in too much kitty litter as this can create a dry layer of kitty litter than could get loose and scatter when the rocket is launched.

The berberis is planted on a bank, and the soft soil beneath the shrubs is covered in a thick layer of leaf litter.

Thus, closed canopy together with a forest floor covered by a thin layer of leaf litter which is underlain by highly permeable topsoil may reduce soil erosion.

As a species adapted to woodlands, the young shoots are able to penetrate through a thick layer of leaf litter, and bluebells are often used as an indicator species to identify ancient woodland.