Sentence examples for on decay from inspiring English sources

Species composition varied along a continuum of assemblages from a dominance of arboreal lichens on decay class 1 (less decayed) CWD, to Cladonia, Dicranum and Brachythecium species and a diversity of liverworts on decay class 3, to feathermosses and Plagiomnium and Peltigera species on decay class 4 (more decayed) CWD.

Where Phil Gadahn in his music focussed on redemption, death metal focussed on decay.

Dr George McGavin, a chortling, bearded Scottish expert on decay, rigged up a glass-walled kitchen with food and drink – a chicken, a whole pig, fish, fruit and vegetables, cheese, sandwiches, cakes, chilli con carne and bottles of wine – then left it to rot for eight weeks while he popped in with fellow experts to dilate on aspects of putrefaction.

Yet it could be argued that Goldsworthy's work is at least as conceptually rich as Smithson's; his compressions of space and water as metaphysically suggestive as the sculpture of Anish Kapoor; his use of found materials as inflected with past use and future alteration as the wood pieces of his friend David Nash; and his meditations on decay, mortality, and generation as smart as Damien Hirst's.

In turn, moisture in walls provides a key control on decay processes [29].

Availability of non-durable pine blocks, however, had no effect on decay in copper-treated wood.

Makes one wonder: Is the country relying too much on decaying infrastructure, the capital investments of generations long gone?

They feed on decaying vegetable matter but can be a major pest on crops.

Many species are found on the ground or on decaying wood.

They produce black to brown, club-shaped fruiting structures on soil or on decaying wood.

Many believed in spontaneous generation because it explained such occurrences as maggots swarming on decaying meat.