This non-living microbial biomass accretes over time in soil, forming one of the largest pools of organic matter on the planet. In this Review, we discuss how the biogeochemical cycling of organic matter depends on both living and dead soil microorganisms, their functional traits, and their ...
Soil creates life from death.The production of more than 95% of the food we eat relies on soil.But this precious resource is eroding(侵蚀)at a global average of 13.5 tons per hectare per year.Instead of nourishing crops,fertile topsoil is washed and blown away,ending up in inconvenient pla...
Life and Death and Life Edgar M. Reilly, Jr. Each moment of each day sees the death of some living thing. We know that each plant and animal, by natural tendency, produces far more seeds and eggs, and seedlings and young, than is necessary to mainta...
To raise our crops we need to fertilize by returning chemicals to the soil. It is part of life: through death and decomposing, nature keeps wildlife going. 要种植庄稼,我们得向土壤施加化学物质,使土壤肥沃。大自然通过死亡和腐烂使得野生生物生生不已,这是生命的一部分。 手机扫描二维码查看全部内容 ...
The prairie and the fire, the night and the day, Love and grief, life and death, Are all bound together by the very same breath. ’Cause the life that’s in you is the life that’s in me. And the life in a bird is the life ...
C. You should never take early retiremenm C Soil creates life from death. The production of more than 95% of the food we eat relies on soil. But precious resounce is eroding (侵蚀) at a global average of 13.5 tons per hectare per year. Instead of nouri erops, fertile topsoil is wa...
2.characterized by inactivity and lack of exercise:a sedentary life. 3.Zool. a.abiding in one place; not migratory. b.pertaining to animals that move about little or are permanently attached to something, as a barnacle. [1590–1600; < Latinsedentāriussitting] ...
In the political moment there is a focus upon the war on terror, but what of the war at home? War upon Australian soil seemingly has been consigned to history. Is it productive to consider the ongoing death and destruction in Indigenous Australia as forms of state based terrorism? The ...
In the most destructive and catastrophic landslide events, rocks, soil and fluids can travel at speeds approaching several tens of metres per second. However, many landslides, commonly referred to as slow-moving landslides, creep at rates ranging from millimetres to several metres per year and can...
My polytheism grew with me. Even now as I grow and get comfortable in the space of adulthood and motherhood, it grows as I do. I am a microcosm of the nature of the universe around me. My bones are the stone under the soil of my skin. My breath is the spark of life and the ...