Sentence examples for terrestrial communities from inspiring English sources

In terrestrial communities less than 10 percent of plant tissue is actually consumed by herbivores.

In terrestrial communities, plants convert atmospheric carbon dioxide to carbon-based compounds through photosynthesis (see above The photosynthetic process).

Most other major nutrients such as phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, iron, and calcium enter terrestrial communities through the weathering of bedrock.

Detritus is composed of leaves and other plant parts that fall into the water from surrounding terrestrial communities.

Typically, salamanders occur in moist forested habitats, where they are often common in aquatic and terrestrial communities.

Up to 80 percent of the aboveground carbon in terrestrial communities and about a third of belowground carbon are contained within forests.

Indeed, a few field and laboratory experiments have demonstrated terrestrial "community- and population-level" bottom-up cascades [4], such as effects of plant abundance and richness on the abundance and richness of herbivores or predators [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11].

Nutrient subsidies (other than salmon) to terrestrial invertebrate communities can result in shifts in invertebrate community structure and abundance as a consequence of bottom-up ecosystem effects [ 27, 43, 44].

It is known, for instance, that during the Late Cretaceous many dinosaur types lived in relationships not unlike the present-day terrestrial mammal communities.

Studies on biosignatures left behind by terrestrial microbial communities are needed for comparison against the yet-to-explore rock record.

An approach is presented for calculating interannual variation of net primary production (C) of terrestrial plant communities at regional scale using satellite and ground measurements.