Sentence examples for past plants from inspiring English sources

As we know, rapid deforestation combined with the massive burning of fossil fuels, which are largely the remnants of past plants, is an explosive recipe for an irreversible disaster.

Those interminable scenes in the den at Southfork, in which the whole clan gathered to toss back drinks, their elbows always brushing past plants or nearly knocking over lamps, their bodies always shifting uncomfortably in their armchairs, captured the airless prison of dysfunctional kinship.

This paper examines the environmental evidence used to investigate initial signs of plant exploitation and the transition to agriculture, as well as to understand the wider significance of past plants in a changing cultural landscape.

These natural archives, often referred to as proxy evidence, are extraordinarily diverse; they include, but are not limited to, fossil records of past plant and animal distributions, sedimentary and geochemical indicators of former conditions of oceans and continents, and land surface features characteristic of past climates.

Use of stable carbon isotope data from paleosols to reconstruct past plant community structure (C3 vs. C4) has become commonplace.

This approach allowed to quantify past plant abundances in sub-regional landscape patterns, as defined by soil types and relief.

Such models are based largely on reconstructions of past plant distributions, and many modelers have assumed that conifers spread quickly into Scandinavia after the ice sheets retreated about 9000 years ago.

Firm managers told a crew of tree planters they would receive a pay raise for one day as a result of a surplus not attributable to past planting productivity.

Sequential models, where the time-variation within each forecasting time-interval was also taken as input information, and marching forecasting models, where target values were predicted at fixed future times from past plant information, were developed.

Current interest and debate on pollen-assemblage richness as a proxy for past plant richness have prompted us to review recent developments in assessing whether modern pollen-assemblage richness reflects contemporary floristic richness.

In the past, plant breeders tried to capitalize on the natural nematode resistance of plants such as wild beets by breeding them with susceptible crops such as the sugar beet, but the hybrids only had partial resistance and were unsuitable for commercial use.