Furthermore, the effects of thermal regime and tomatine on food consumption and biomass gained differed for females and males. |
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Both the real and the virtual plants responded to removal of branches by producing a taller plant bearing larger leaves, but less total biomass. |
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When the vegetation dies, the dead biomass eventually becomes peat in the surface layer where it is subjected to decomposition. |
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Aquatic sediments host much of the bacterial biomass and biodiversity and play a key role in biogeochemical cycles. |
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We therefore tracked plant growth using leaf height as a surrogate for aboveground dry weight biomass. |
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The most common is activated sludge, a process in which microbes, also known as biomass, are allowed to feed on organic matter in the wastewater. |
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Large species tend to produce their young more in phase with high biomass and after the protein peak. |
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Funding for research into renewable energy sources like solar, geothermal and biomass would also be trimmed. |
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They show higher photosynthetic rates, biomass productivity and water and nitrogen use efficiencies. |
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The product consists of small-diameter trees and woody biomass combined with recycled plastic containers. |
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At the end of the nineteenth century, burning forest biomass to clear land and fertilize the soil was used only occasionally on the Continent. |
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Species richness is low at high biomass because of dominance by a few strong competitors that create closed canopies. |
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Root respiration provides metabolic energy for growth and maintenance of root biomass and for ion transport. |
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The Baltic clam achieves highest densities in mesohaline habitats of the bay where it ranks first in benthic infaunal biomass. |
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There are also biological treatment systems in which the biomass is attached. |
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Lichens thus dominate the Antarctic flora both in terms of species diversity and in terms of total biomass. |
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A large proportion of developing country households rely on biomass fuels such as wood, animal dung and crop residues for cooking and heating. |
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I measured digestibility as the proportion of eaten plant biomass not deposited as frass by 0800 the following morning. |
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The aim was to reach high biomass production and high Cd concentrations in the leaves and to avoid the problem of Cd phytotoxicity. |
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It has been argued that stimulable bioluminescence potential is a useful, measurable proxy for planktonic biomass. |
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We are exploring further opportunities for converting low-value biomass into bioenergy. |
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Soot is a product of incomplete combustion, especially of diesel fuels, biofuels, coal and outdoor biomass burning. |
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Like their terrestrial counterparts, the oceanic deserts are low in biomass. |
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The harp seal and the minke whale together consume about the same amount of biomass as the Norwegian fishermen land, i.e. about 3 million tonnes. |
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Hydromania reduces diversity of supply and impedes projects which could increase diversity, particularly wind and biomass. |
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A number of wind projects are at an advanced stage of development while biomass projects are also being progressed. |
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Biomass composition as a percentage of total biomass for three stages of development in Dionaea. |
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In contrast, later formed leaves remained smaller and total leaf biomass remained substantially reduced in the mutants. |
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Total biomass of resident birds was always higher than that of wintering birds at Tinaja Verde. |
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Contaminants are subsequently removed by harvesting the above-ground shoot biomass for volume reduction and storage. |
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At each time point, total biomass and chlorophyll contents of seven individual plants were quantified. |
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Harvest index was measured as the ratio between root weight and total biomass. |
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I estimated colony size from the volume of the nest mound, which increases with total ant biomass. |
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Reproductive allocation is usually measured as the ratio between seed and total biomass. |
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Daytime food abundance was expressed as total dry biomass of insects collected per day. |
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People will be encouraged to consume alternative power generated from biomass. |
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But some of it may be revegetated for biomass production for shrubs and trees to make biomass fuels out of possibly. |
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In total, burning this biomass will not add to the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. |
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Faced with patented technology that no one wants to eat, biotech companies are now discussing growing GM crops for biomass fuel. |
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He also sees huge potential for biomass fired electricity in the West of Ireland. |
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They are used instead for animal feed and increasingly for biomass fuel, such as ethanol. |
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The company now exports biomass fuel to the Netherlands and Britain for power production and the home heating market. |
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The minister recently visited a cluster of three sites at Crymych which are fuelled by biomass wood pellet boilers. |
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He covered solar energy, wind energy, biomass and biogas, geothermal activity and thermal power. |
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He said the company was in discussions with a major hotel chain about installing biomass generators in their properties around Scotland. |
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We are convinced there is a potential for seaweed as biomass for ethanol and biomethane. |
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The objective of this paper is to derive biomass estimation models for ten of the most important caatinga species. |
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Certain species, such as snow crab and shrimp, have greatly increased their biomass since one of their natural predators, the cod, has declined. |
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Britain should also adopt biomass feedstock for all existing power stations. |
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Results from studies in the Caribbean and Indo-Pacific have differed on the importance of mangrove-derived biomass in the economy of reefs. |
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Both cover crops fix a lot of nitrogen and produce high yields of biomass that serve as organic matter to enrich the soil. |
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Trends in cuticular species richness parallel inferred changes in vegetation physiognomy and biomass. |
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Originally these plants were meant to serve only as a cover crop, enriching the soil with nitrogen and biomass. |
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The remaining energy sources, hydro, nuclear, biomass, geothermal, solar, and wind make up the balance. |
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Caged saplings had higher insect densities, greater leaf area consumed and lower biomass than uncaged saplings. |
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Domestic biomass fuel combustion and chronic bronchitis in two rural Bolivian villages. |
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The proposal has the added bonus of reducing greenhouse gas emissions through the use of biomass to generate electricity. |
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Solar, wind, geothermal, and biomass all show great potential as sources of electricity. |
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There are more efficient ways to tap into the sun's energy via biomass fuels. |
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Nuclear power could free up more fossil and biomass fuels to use as liquid fuel for ground transportation. |
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The use of biomass electrical generation is hardly the environmental boon it's made out to be. |
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Farmers are being offered millions of pounds worth of grants in an effort to boost production of biomass to meet renewable energy targets. |
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Biomass of herbivores and predators may also reflect resource levels and plant biomass. |
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The company also sources and sells biomass wood fuels from other producers. |
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However, it has increased the grain yield potential and thereby the ratio of grain mass to total above-ground biomass or harvest index. |
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These power stations are naturally being promoted as green alternatives, otherwise known as biomass. |
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By summing the total biomass of all classes, we get the total biomass estimate for each district. |
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Total biomass was also increased relative to controls by the end of the experiment. |
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It is not clear why the oribi, a small species, produces its young at the peak biomass, unless other factors override nutritional intake. |
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Cell division and re-growth of daughter cells to the initial mother cell size results in a biomass increase of a factor of two. |
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It has been estimated that half the biomass of life on the Earth resides in the subsurface doing things other than photosynthesis. |
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Studies indicate that inhalation of smoke from burning biomass fuels in unventilated indoor spaces accounts for more than 400,000 persons with COPD in the developing world. |
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Currently, he says, enough waste biomass is being generated by lumbering, by farming, and as urban waste to meet 10 percent of U.S. transportation needs. |
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We defined above-ground biomass of mosses as the loose individual stems of mosses above the network of roots, rhizomes and rhizoids of the organic turf. |
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Small bushy legumes were intercropped between the mango trees and cashews to fix nitrogen levels, add biomass and help keep the soil temperature down. |
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In 1997, biomass of both littoral and sublittoral invertebrates in the impoundment was comparable to that of New Brunswick lakes of similar trophic status. |
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Although biomass allocation patterns were statistically significant between cohorts during juvenile growth stages, the most obvious differences were at late-fruiting. |
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The ecology of Typha is well-known, with several studies on phenology, production rate, competitive superiority and gas transportation into the below-ground biomass. |
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Most energy will be produced locally from wind, solar cells, hydropower, biomass and geothermal sources, offering new grassroots potential for developing countries. |
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Furthermore, fruits in the forest canopy support a disproportionately high amount of bird biomass, because in general frugivores tend to be very large. |
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The impact of floating seaweeds on the neustonic environment was quantified by the calculation of the added values of seaweed samples considering biomass and density. |
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Essential elements for these estimates are the estimate of prokaryotic cell size and the use of appropriate conversion factors for estimating prokaryotic biomass from cell volume. |
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The presence of any of the three gallmakers reduced ramet production as well as biomass allocation to leaves and rhizomes, but increased allocation to stem. |
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The comb jelly introduced to the Black Sea via the shipping industry in the early 1980s, now comprises up to 95 percent of the biomass in the Black Sea. |
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The cost of biomass gasification and geothermal energy is going down too. |
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Power can also be generated from biomass energy crops such as fast-growing willow, poplar and elephant grass planted as an alternative to food crops. |
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Energy-related parameters measured were fermentation end-products, respiratory rate, ATP, adenylate energy charge, nitrate reductase activity and biomass. |
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Xylose is a major constituent of plant lignocellulose, and its fermentation is important for the bioconversion of plant biomass to fuels and chemicals. |
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A major energy company has completed one of three planned conversions of a power plant from coal to biomass in Virginia. |
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The plants operated by Dominion will primarily use leftovers from nearby timbering work for the biomass fuel. |
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Looking at just forestland and agricultural land, the two largest potential biomass sources, the study found potential exceeding 1.3 billion dry tons per year. |
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Up to 25 percent of all fish on reefs are cardinalfish, and damselfish compose up to 50 percent of the total fish biomass on reefs, the study says. |
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The removal of chronic grazing by voles increased the biomass of preferred food species, which were the most readily decomposable, inside exclosures. |
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Antarctic krill, probably the largest biomass of a single species on the planet. |
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Torrefaction is a thermal process used to produce high-grade solid biofuels from woody biomass. |
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Methane created from biomass in industrial plants via biological route is called biogas. |
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One of the more promising energy alternatives is the use of inedible feed stocks and biomass for carbon dioxide capture as well as biofuel. |
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Sustainable development requires avoiding competition with food production by using bio-wastes and lignocellulose in biomass conversion. |
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Eucalyptus wood biomass will be used to produce steam for the site's chlor-alkali and chlorohydrin production processes. |
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Zostera can also be utilized to produce biomass energy using the Jean Pain method. |
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This process induces growth of plants and algae and due to the biomass load, may result in oxygen depletion of the water body. |
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After such organisms die, the bacterial degradation of their biomass consumes the oxygen in the water, thereby creating the state of hypoxia. |
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Efficient trawl avoidance by mesopelagic fishes causes large underestimation of their biomass. |
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With a stock estimated at 1,000 million tons so far, mesopelagic fish dominate the total biomass of fish in the ocean. |
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Grouse make up a considerable part of the vertebrate biomass in the Arctic and Subarctic. |
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The hydrochemical environment shifts from oxygenated to anoxic, as bacterial decomposition of sunken biomass utilizes all of the free oxygen. |
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However, due to its capacity for photosynthesis, the photic zone has the greatest biodiversity and biomass of all oceanic zones. |
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Diel trends in the mesopelagic biomass community of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands observed acoustically. |
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In a sense, this process is not one of reproduction but one of survival and expansion of biomass of the individual. |
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The plantlet has developed to a stage that water is required to sustain current biomass and to stimulate further development. |
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Thermocline deepening and mixing alter zooplankton phenology, biomass and body size in a whole-lake experiment. |
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Effects of grazing and nutrient supply on periphyton biomass and nutrient stoichiometry in habitats of different productivity. |
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Then, the wet cell biomass was transferred into 50 mL falcon tubes for the cell disruption method. |
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However, as a group, the small aquatic crustaceans called copepods form the largest animal biomass on earth. |
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Department of Energy to produce PHB in switchgrass to co-produce densified biomass for fuel and to produce value-added crotonic acid. |
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Approximate calculations show that cellulose biomass could meet all needs for Otto engine fuel. |
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Lanternfish also account for much of the biomass responsible for the deep scattering layer of the world's oceans. |
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The last chapter proposes a system of industrial ecology based on the thermochemical gasification of biomass. |
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The conversion from coal to biomass power is a growing trend in the United States. |
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In 2009, the Institute set up biomass gasifier systems for village electrification of cyclone-affected areas in Myanmar. |
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Local and renewable energy sources are biomass, hydro, solar and wind energy. |
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The biomass at a site at any particular time is the net effect of growth, import, export, and decompositional and grazing losses. |
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The golomyankas are the primary prey of the Baikal seal and represent the largest fish biomass in the lake. |
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In the nearshore regions of Baikal, the largest benthic biomass is sponges. |
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There are very few habitats stressful enough to make investing biomass and energy in trigger hairs and enzymes worthwhile. |
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Quotation for Supply and Installation of a set of biomass heating equipment for didactical purposes. |
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At present, co-firing offers the best opportunities for market penetration of biomass. |
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The power station is designed to take biomass in the form of reprocessed pine kernel shells and wood chips and convert it into electricity. |
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Ecophysiological needs of the potential biomass crop Spartina townsendii Grov. |
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But it is the unique sequence and expression of the genes in eucalypt trees that make them such efficient producers of woody biomass. |
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Vitan's expertise is in fermentation of blakeslea trispora to produce beta carotene biomass and other types of carotenoid biomass. |
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For example, western mosquitofish had a significant negative effect on the abundance and biomass of the threatened White Sands pupfish. |
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The dependence of urease and saccharase activities on oilseed rape root biomass is explained. |
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They will form a joint venture to develop a process for making polymer-grade butadiene from biomass. |
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On top of that, the low biomass yield generated under electrogenic conditions avoids any bed colmatation. |
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Alternative energy sources such as solar power, geothermal and biomass production, still seemed promising. |
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In addition, solarthermal collectors, geothermal energy sources and biomass reactors produce heat in this temperature range. |
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Not all bacteria increase the strength of concrete significantly with their biomass. |
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Aldaric acids or saccharic acids are diacids derived from naturally occurring sugars in biomass. |
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Leaves also respire, in a similar way to animals, by burning their biomass to generate chemical energy. |
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Kudzu as local biomass is an example of lignocellulosic material that has been used in this study. |
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Syngas can be produced from a number of sources, including coal and biomass. |
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Stripers Forever survey respondents want to ban the harvest of large, prime breeding size stripers until the resource biomass stock is healthier. |
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The potential for plant growth is net photosynthesis, the total gross gain of biomass by photosynthesis, minus the biomass lost by respiration. |
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These relatively inert materials simply collect within the biomass and can sometimes gradually become bioconcretions. |
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Since protein constitutes the majority of the biomass of a cell, building new protein is a major way that cells increase their size. |
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In the untouched Shangri-la-like Kingman Reef in the Line Islands in the central Pacific, sharks make up 75 per cent of the fish biomass. |
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Based on chronosequences for beech, oak and alder we aimed to examine how stand age affects fine root biomass and morphology. |
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In the case of wildberries, we estimated for each secondary sampling unit the total biomass of edible ripened fruits. |
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However, prior to the enzymatic hydrolysis bycellulase on lignocellulosic biomass, pretreatment process is needed. |
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The introduction eco-friendly, solarised buildings that use very minimal biomass and non-renewable energy is the hallmark of the initiative. |
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A form of biomass energy, this source of heat is still widely used in rural areas. |
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Because of its high biomass yields, switchgrass is considered a good candidate for dedicated energy crops. |
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In addition to direct use of wood and charcoal, biomass energy sources include ethanol and biodiesel. |
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Two species, switchgrass and giant miscanthus, are of interest as dedicated energy crops as both have great biomass production potential. |
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Butanol manufactured from biomass by fermentative processes offers considerable potential for the biofuel industry. |
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A comparison of the organic matter, biomass, adenosine triphosphate and mineralizable nitrogen contents of ploughed and direct-drilled soils. |
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It has even more in the form of solar, wind, biomass and biofuel potential. |
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Doran JW Microbial biomass and mineralizable nitrogen distributions in no-tillage and plowed soils. |
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The amount of native tundra biomass depends more on the local temperature than the amount of precipitation. |
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The higher heating value of sunn hemp biomass exceeded that of switchgrass, Bermuda grass, reed canarygrass, and alfalfa. |
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To produce such structures, the plant requires ATP and respires more of its biomass. |
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Cellulase production using biomass feed stock and its application in lignocellulose saccharification for bio-ethanol production. |
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Andropogon gayanus is an important tropical grass due to its high biomass production and its ability to tolerate long dry seasons and low fertility, acidic soils. |
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On the other hand, unlike perennial pastures, the whole root and shoot biomass of annual pastures senesces and returns to the soil on an annual basis. |
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Tina Joemat-Pettersson, the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries welcomes the sailing of the Africana for the commencement of the pelagic biomass survey. |
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These will couple biomass conversion devices with conventional and advanced electricity generators such as microturbines, Stirling engines, and eventually fuel cells. |
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Faast pyrolysis, the process of rapidly heating biomass without oxygen, produces energy-dense bio-oil from wood, plants, and other carbon-based materials. |
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When biomass is extracted even for one harvest of wood or charcoal, the residual soil value is heavily diminished for further growth of any type of vegetation. |
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Torrefaction modifies the chemical properties of waste wood and biomass. |
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Planted after cash crop harvest in most cases, Tillage Sunn grows rapidly and within 60 days adds significant nitrogen plus approximately two and a half tons of biomass. |
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Through Agri-Tech, James has licensed North Carolina State University's patented torrefaction process, which transforms raw biomass into a relatively clean-burning bio-coal. |
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This dry matter is biomass with potential as fuel for energy production. |
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Finally, because the POM is chemically stable, the hybrid fuel cell can use unpurified polymeric biomass without concern for poisoning noble metal anodes. |
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An analysis of biomass electricity generation subsidisation by country. |
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The denitrifying potential of the biomass was below the detection limit. |
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As a biomass, the peanut hull is a complex material consisted of polyphenol such as catechol, pyrogallic acid and m-trihydroxybenzene, mineral, lipid, and cellulose, etc. |
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According to the oceanologists, the sapropel sediments accumulated at the sea floor are a product of the mass dying of plankton biomass as a result of the Flood. |
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Soil biochemical characteristics examined were anaerobically mineralisable N, soil microbial biomass C, soil respiration and denitrifying enzyme activity. |
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The three-year project will focus on improving processes involved in the production of Dimethyl Ether, a fuel produced from natural gas, coal, biomass, or carbon dioxide. |
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Hartlepool has a nuclear power station, and there is a conventional CHP power station and a biomass power station operated by Sembcorp on the Wilton Chemical site. |
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In 2012, BP shut down the BP Biofuels Highlands project which was developed since 2008 to make cellulosic ethanol from emerging energy crops like switchgrass and from biomass. |
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Within the United Kingdom, wind power is the largest source of renewable electricity, and the second largest source of renewable energy after biomass. |
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The new support mechanism is applicable to nearly all kind of renewables, and especially biogas, biomass, landfill gas, solar, wind, and small hydroelectricity. |
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The facility will be the first of its kind in the UK drawing its energy from a renewable source with power coming directly from the RWE biomass plant in the town. |
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Some scientists say they form the largest animal biomass on the planet. |
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For many abattoirs, very little animal biomass may be wasted at slaughter. |
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Krill and copepods are not as widely fished, but may be the animals with the greatest biomass on the planet, and form a vital part of the food chain. |
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In addition, the biomass of global fish stocks have been allowed to run down to the point where it is no longer possible to catch the amount of fish that could be caught. |
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Increasing the spawning stock biomass to a target level is the approach taken by managers to restore an overfished population to sustainable levels. |
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From the late 1950s, offshore bottom trawlers began exploiting the deeper part, leading to a large catch increase and a strong decline in the underlying biomass. |
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Public perception is that renewable energies such as wind, solar, biomass and geothermal are having a significant positive impact on global warming. |
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Within the abyssal and hadal zones, the areas around submarine hydrothermal vents and cold seeps have by far the greatest biomass and biodiversity per unit area. |
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He raises concerns about the carbon footprint of the biomass supply chain. |
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The population of Calanus agulhensis, a large species that dominates the copepod community in terms of biomass, has a center of distribution on the central Agulhas Bank. |
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Since 1997 the copepod biomass on the central Agulhas Bank has declined significantly while the biomass of pelagic fish has increased significantly. |
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The most successful animal species, in terms of biomass, is probably the Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba, with a biomass of about 500 million tonnes. |
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The result is that both the biomass and individual fish sizes are significantly larger in these areas than in places where fishing is completely unrestricted. |
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However, in some years there has been good recruitment of capelin despite a high herring biomass, suggesting that herring are only one factor influencing capelin dynamics. |
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These bacteria occur naturally and will act to remove oil from an ecosystem, and their biomass will tend to replace other populations in the food chain. |
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For example, the addition of a moderate amount of nutrients to a river over the course of several years resulted in increases in invertebrate richness, abundance, and biomass. |
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In the North Atlantic Ocean, dissolved oxygen and sea surface temperature were found to be the principal drivers of jellyfish biomass distribution. |
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Knowing the impact of formalin on copepod size helps us to obtain reliable estimates of copepod biomass and thus to better assess the energy flow to higher trophic levels. |
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The company has secured a site at the Port of Bristol for a large biomass power plant and has had planning permission granted for a biomass project at Rothes in Morayshire. |
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Species richness and above-ground biomass of poor and calcareous spring fens in the flysch West Carpathians, and their relationship to water and soil chemistry. |
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As the biomass depolymerises during thermal treatment and forms a range of functional groups, complex reactions take place with the different mineral phases. |
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The team reports that, on deep reefs, the biomass of commercially fished yellowtail snapper in the mangrove-rich areas is double that in the mangrove-poor areas. |
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The successful establishment of bio-based industries will require a stable supply of high-quality biomass feedstocks in large quantities at competitive prices. |
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Valoya offers optimized continuous wide spectra for biomass growth, flowering, compactness and various special applications like vernalization and architectural lighting. |
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We analysed the phospholipid fatty acid profile, an index of both microbial biomass and community composition, in association with vegetational and edaphic factors. |
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They shot up about 2 feet taller than the controls, while wiregrass, rattlebox, and butterfly weed decreased in biomass, and sand post oak experienced no change. |
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