Sentence examples for sediments instead from inspiring English sources

In this study, the water displacement method previously described by Abia et al. (2015a) was used to quantify the target bacteria in the sediments, instead of the common approach (weighting method).

Thus, the faunal induced enhancement of microbial carbon oxidation in natural sediments instead causes a reduction of the organic matter inventory rather than an increased release of CO2 across the sediment/water interface.

"[The corals are] spending the limited energy they have on cleaning out sediments instead of capturing food," he explains.

This idea is not without precedent among modern sister taxa: Some Isoetes lack stomata on their above-water leaves, gathering and fixing carbon dioxide from the sediment instead.

These changes have involved the establishment of two divergent longshore bay sediment cells instead of the original single unidirectional cell.

In addition, the plan treats water and sediments as waste instead of a resource.

If the oceans were not sufficiently oxic for contemporary oxygen-scavenging to have been necessary in sediments, perhaps it instead was occurring in the water column, despite the very different physical conditions in the two cases.

Much of his job involves finding new ways to use chemicals and filtering techniques to keep the water pure, like selling cakes of dried river sediment as compost instead of sending them downstream for another county to treat.

Instead, sediment-transport patterns were estimated on the basis of the observation of the geomorphological development derived from a fluvial flooding event of 17 19 July (Fig. 3).

Instead of sediment lagging discharge, the sediment wave precedes discharge by an average of 1.7 days, displaying pronounced clockwise (positive) hysteresis.

"River sediment can be used to build marsh, instead of letting sediment wash out to sea".