Plants and animals benefit each other as members of food chains and ecosystems. For instance, flowering plants rely on bees and hummingbirds to pollinate them, while animals eat plants and sometimes make homes in them. When animals die and decompose, they enrich the soil with nitrates that sti...
Although 78 percent of our atmosphere is comprised of nitrogen gas, usable nitrogen is a limited commodity. Most organisms can tap the element for growth and function only when, through a process called nitrogen fixation, it has been converted into ammonia or nitrates. Nitrogen Fixation Geo-grafik...
Plant uptake is one pathway in which nutrients are removed in floating wetland systems. Plants facilitate the removal of nutrients through direct assimilation (absorption or adsorption), or indirectly by creating habitat for microbial communities on the root infrastructure – which assist in nutrient rem...
nitrifying bacterium, plural Nitrifying Bacteria, any of a small group of aerobic bacteria (family Nitrobacteraceae) that use inorganic chemicals as an energy source. They are microorganisms that areimportant in the nitrogen cycle as converters of soil ammonia to nitrates, compounds usable by plants....
Ozone treatment:Some wastewater treatment plants also use ozone treatment for disinfecting. Ozone treatment is more effective than chlorine, but it is expensive, requires special corrosion-resistant equipment and produces toxic gases, so plants must weigh the costs and benefits of this treatment carefull...
Only collect plants that you are 100% sure you know. With many plants, there is a very high risk of confusion with other, similar plants, and thus a risk of poisoning. If you have the slightest doubt, leave the plant where it is and rather get a supply from the nearest herb shop ...
vegetarian, we can digest and use most animals and edible plants. Anyway, because many people enjoy the taste of meat and because meat-eating is seen globally as a sign of relative affluence, availability and consumption of meat – and red meat in particular – tends to increase as relative...
All food is now processed into organic, non-GMO, gluten-free, grass-fed, free-range, no added hormones, no nitrates, Heritage, Fair Trade Certified, local farm-to-table wafers, giving new meaning to “three square meals a day.”
Thus he points out that in plants "glutinous principles " are commonly met with which must be the seat of motion, of contraction, and of irritability. Curiously enough, as an example of this glutinous principle, Cirillo gives the "elastic resin now used so extensively" ex- tracted from the...
A system using ion-selective membranes, field effect transistors, and flow injection analysis was able to predict soil nitrates in manual soil extracts with r{sup}2 > 0.90. Research on the sensors for crop parameters has included the use of a light source and photodiodes to measure grain flow...