The Gianinetti ranch was a curious mash-up of bucolic and urban, a broad patch of meadows threaded with two miles of spring-fed creeks, hard by the Roaring Fork River and busy Highway 82.
She sat on straw strewn over a bare patch of the meadow, while her 4-year-old son, Tenzin Kunga, played with a Game Boy.
You can choose the length to leave your grass so it's easy to create a patch of hay meadow for a few months if you feel like encouraging a more bee and butterfly-friendly environment.
Therefore, SWC may be high in certain patches of the meadow and create environmental conditions conducive for methanogenic microorganisms, but low in other microsites across the grassland.
It is possible that methane emissions from a small stream and adjacent wet patches of the meadow, that are normally not part of the footprint, have contributed disproportionally to observed methane emissions.
The litter bags were placed in a homogeneous patch of an adjacent meadow, thus quantifying the effect of community-specific litter composition and quality on decomposition processes, independent of differences in microenvironmental conditions induced by the experimental communities.
This experiment allowed examination of the extent this butterfly would scan the landscape matrix outside the patches of damp meadows.
In the study area, land sensitivity to soil erosion extends beyond the borders of agricultural lands into bare areas and patches along the edges of meadow lands in the vicinity of agricultural lands.
Ms. Rayner, who from her kitchen window in Ridgefield can see nearly four acres of meadow with patches of sun and shade, knobby apple trees and new fences, adopted the two horses from an organization called Horse of Connecticut.
