Sentence examples for leaves damaged from inspiring English sources
The decomposition rate of leaves damaged by free-living insects was 91% of that of undamaged leaves, whereas the mass loss of leaves composing shelters did not differ of that of undamaged leaves.
We hypothesized that the decomposition rate is faster for shelters of leaf-tying larvae than for leaves damaged by free-living insects, in particular due to the accumulation of larval frass within shelters.
These differences between leaves damaged by different guilds of herbivorous insects were uniform across the study sites, although the decomposition rate in polluted sites was reduced to 77% of that in unpolluted sites.
Although metaldehyde caused more rapid slug mortality than the nematodes, the nematodes provided plant protection (i.e., number of leaves damaged and leaf area eaten) equal or better than metaldehyde.
This means that N-deficient leaves damaged all of the photochemical and non- photochemical redox reactions and had a decreased capacity for electron transport, thus limiting ATP synthesis and RuBP regeneration.
We exposed litter bags containing samples of three different compositions (shelters built by moth larvae, leaves damaged by free-living insects and intact leaves of mountain birch, Betula pubescens ssp. czerepanovii) for one year at two heavily polluted sites near the nickel-copper smelter at Monchegorsk in north-western Russia and at two unpolluted sites.
Nearly everything the Soviets occupied was left damaged or destroyed, but much has been rebuilt.
Robinson now receives daily coaching to help with his voice after one of his vocal cords was left damaged following the treatment.
Ronald Frasch, the president and chief merchandising officer at Saks Fifth Avenue, which carries Dior, said he did not think the brand would be left damaged.
In November last year, new hostel accommodation destined for use by asylum seekers was left damaged in a suspected arson attack near Nuremberg.
Tornadoes touched down in the towns of Cleburne and Millsap and across the region around Dallas and Fort Worth, leaving damaged homes and an altered landscape.
