A dead zone is a common name for a region of reducedoxygenlevels (hypoxia) in water. Because animals and plants need dissolved oxygen to live, entering a dead zone causes them to suffocate and die. However, dead zones aren't truly "dead," becausebacteriathrive on the decaying matter. Dea...
When dead plant matter slowly decays into peat and is buried in the earth's crust it is subjected to high pressure and heat. If these pressures occur for millions of years, the peat will be converted into a highly combustible rock called coal. Coal is primarily composed of carbon....
is the next layer that is formed from small particles in the subsoil layer mixing with the larger particles from the very top layer, which is the layer of humus and decaying matter. Insects and plants help to mix these layers and break down nutrients to be re-inserted back into the soil...
“Huh! Here I am, at the Zen Center, with a broom. I guess I had better be mindful.” And so I was. As I swept, I paid attention to the walkway, to the leaves on the walkway, to the plants that brushed past me, to the trail of ants that I avoided sweeping up, to...
The hagonoy plant is one of the organic plants that ends up as oil when it decays. Byanon160653— On Mar 16, 2011 what is in crude oil? Byanon145443— On Jan 23, 2011 Why is crude oil such a harmful substance? Byanon134894— On Dec 16, 2010 ...
‘Nothing’ itself <Quantum is not the most basic unit, and it can be segmentation fission continuously >), "Mang-self-domestication" (Anti-self-domestication ★ Emancipating self-Domestication, Transcending self-domestication, Mang-self-domestication<self-domestication of the Universe, Mang-self-...
Methane generates a little over 15% of the human induced greenhouse effect. Methane is nothing else than the main component of “natural gas” (and also the cooking gas of most people, and…the firedamp so feared by coalminers) and is formed as soon as any organic compound decays (through...
I don't see enough post-1960 curves there for that. So perhaps one curve for all Gulf oil. But that can't be, since that first little curve decays to near zero way back in the 1980's. So what's what? And which one is the Alaska curve? Presumably the one peaking circa 1985?
Over time, the fallen log decays, with this process in turn facilitating many important ecosystem services across space and time, including recruitment (as a nurse log, or via gap-dynamics), decomposition (nutrient turnover, microbial community growth and diversity), habitat for animals or ...