Sentence examples for quantities of litter from inspiring English sources
Burrows and middens of L. terrestris were recorded and quantities of litter were consumed.
We found very large quantities of litter in northern Chile, posing a hazard to marine wildlife and human health, and moderate quantities in the other regions.
The A. portulacoides community is highly productive and provides important quantities of litter which provides a habitat and good supply to substain high densities of the detrivorous amphipod Orchestia gammarellus.
Scenarios include 'good' and 'bad' management of manures on dairy farms, as well as a case study on an arable farm which receives large quantities of litter from a poultry unit.
The added litter [33] and the proliferated root system [34] of the growing plants probably influenced the carbon storage in the soil, suggesting a positive correlation of SOC with the quantity of litter fall [35].
Soil microbial communities are different between conifer and broad-leaved forests (Ushio et al. [2008]), which could release different quality and quantity of litter and root exudates (Sauheitl et al. [2010]).
An effort has been made to overcome the concern through measuring the concentration of allelochemicals in the P. australis rhizosphere soil (Uddin et al. 2012), considering the osmotic potential of higher concentrations (Uddin et al. 2014a), adjusting pH, and measuring the quantity of litter biomass produced per unit of soil or covered area.
For instance, fire can reduce the quantity of litter available for arthropods to colonize [22], [23].
Plant species turnover affects soil nutrient availability and soil properties by varying quality and quantity of litter fluxes and root exudates [15], [16].
However, plant species vary in palatability to consumers as well as quality and quantity of litter they produce [24], influencing the soil food web [25].
The added litter [ 33] and the proliferated root system [ 34] of the growing plants probably influenced the carbon storage in the soil, suggesting a positive correlation of SOC with the quantity of litter fall [ 35].
