Sentence examples for litter material from inspiring English sources
The overlaying litter material was collected from the same forest soil (sample D).
Usually less than 10% of litter material produced in mangrove forests is consumed alive (Bosire et al. 2005), the remnants become part of the detritus food chain.
A total of 180 mixed one-day-old broiler chicks (Ross 308) were purchased from a local hatchery, weighed on arrival and randomly allocated to 18 pens (1 × 1 m) of 10 birds each, with equal numbers of male and females (tree replicates per each treatment) in a ventilated broiler house containing wood shavings as litter material.
The genes encoding Bti toxins Cry4A, 4B and Cry11 were directly sought by PCR in the total DNA pool extracted and purified from leaf litter material (Figure 4).
These observations suggest that under these particular conditions (low oxygen level and low leaf litter decomposition rate), the Bti had more time to colonize the leaf litter material, or/and was less affected by degradation than in the other sites.
They can efficiently degrade recalcitrant lignocellulose polymers, which are the main components of plant litter material (7, 8).
Overall, the results suggest that stand type and forest age impact Collembola communities, presumably via changes in the amount and quality of food resources, such as living plant and herb litter materials.
Litter materials not only function as food but also as shelter, suggesting that both palatable and unpalatable litter materials may affect soil biota in a complementary way by enhancing food quality and physical protection [10].
Plant residues enter the soil subsystem either via aboveground litter materials [20], [28] or via root litter and exudates [63], [64].
Particularly legumes enhance the fertility of soils by N2 fixation and the input of high quality (nitrogen-rich) litter materials [24], [26], [30] [32].
Dust within the barn is made up of several constituents such as feather dander and dust from feed, faeces, and litter materials.
