Sentence examples for litter collected from inspiring English sources

The pale yellow creature, less than a half inch long and with 41 pairs of legs, was sifted from bushels of leaf litter collected nearly four years ago.

Significant differences (P < 0.05) in elemental composition of soil, foliage and litter collected from between mineralized and background samples exist.

During the day there will be a clean-up of park litter, with Parks Commissioner Henry Stern totaling the amount of litter collected.

We carried out a litter-bag experiment using Populus tremula L. leaf litter collected at, and allowed to decompose in, a trace metal polluted site and in three unpolluted sites used as controls.

Scientists at the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), a government research agency, analysed the litter collected during almost 2,500 trawls by fisheries research vessels over the past 25 years, where nets were dragged along the seabed scooping up anything buried to a depth of 15cm.

In this study, we determined organic matter composition, nutrient dynamics and microbial activity in samples of forest floor litter collected over a two year period under two native oak species, Quercus castanea (Qc) and Quercus deserticola (Qd), growing in a semi-natural deciduous forest in central Mexico.

Mounds of litter collect in the eddies of the traffic, coated in layers of dust from the dirt side roads and ash and soot from small piles of burning garbage.

Depending on how good the locks are and whether a liberator like Ms. Belton comes along, these skeletons can remain in place for years, sometimes appearing almost sculptural, like Calder mobiles; other times looking merely sad (when litter collects between bent spokes).

Volunteers helped with everything from weed abatement, picking up litter, collecting cigarette butts and filling sandbags during the "Make a Difference Day" project.

In the French Rhône-Alpes region, decaying leaf litters collected in mosquito breeding sites several months after a Bti treatment revealed a high toxicity against mosquito larvae due to the presence of large amounts of Bti[ 16].

The deleterious effects of folate deficiency on embryonic viability appeared to worsen progressively during development because, among litters collected at E13.5 (n = 5 + ct /+ ct and 6 ct/ct), very few viable embryos were observed, whereas the resorption rate was very high (5.5 ± 0.6 and 5.8 ± 1.3 per litter, respectively).