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A leaf litter sieve is a piece of equipment used by entomologists, in particular by coleopterists (beetle collectors) (Cooter 1991, page 7) as an aid...

Plant litter (also leaf litter, tree litter, soil litter, litterfall or duff) is dead plant material (such as leaves, bark, needles, twigs, and cladodes)...

used for collecting insects include beating nets and aquatic nets. Leaf litter sieves are used by coleopterists and to collect larvae. Once collected, insects...

extract desiccation-intolerant invertebrates from samples of soil or leaf litter. It works by creating a desiccation gradient over the sample such that...

environment and the types of mangroves involved. Termites process fallen leaf litter, root systems and wood from mangroves into peat to build their nests...

in 1964 as Fayodia cystidiosa. She found the type specimen growing in leaf litter at the Wellington Botanic Garden in June, 1949. It was transferred to...

stream were dominated by amphibious vegetation and a large amount of leaf litter was present on the bottom of the stream, though the fish itself is thought...

the leaf litter; for example, the wing-banded antbird forages in areas of dense leaf-litter. It does not use its feet to scratch the leaf litter, as do...

Barbara N. (1999), "Women in South Asia", in Barbara N. Ramusack; Sharon L. Sievers (eds.), Women in Asia: Restoring Women to History, Indiana University Press...

organic matter from the benthos. Other species are collector-filterers, sieving organic particles from the water using silken nets, or hairs on their legs...

micromollusks are often found by taking samples of leaf litter from rich areas, subsequently sieving or sifting the litter, and then searching it under a strong light...

perennial flows of water. Nutrients from terrestrial vegetation (e.g. plant litter and insect drop) are transferred to aquatic food webs, and are a vital source...

delirate, deliration, deliriant, delirifacient, delirious, delirium littera litter- letter alliteration, alliterative, biliteral, illiteracy, illiterate, literacy...

in the formation of peat from mangrove materials. They process fallen leaf litter, root systems and wood from mangroves into peat to build their nests...

Lumps commonly fall to the ground and can be covered with soil and forest litter, eventually fossilising. Other lumps form as branches forked or trees are...

term before the new growth of vegetation provides a new source of organic litter to fuel the peat formation in the long term. UNEP is supporting peatland...

such sites are less likely to be buried by accumulated snowpack and leaf litter, and less likely to be subject to flooding. Advantages conferred by those...

riddle To grade and sort produce (e.g. potatoes) according to size, using a sieve. ridge-till ridging See hilling. ripper See subsoiler. roaster A large chicken...

ozone loss". Science Daily. Retrieved April 6, 2011. "The Arctic Ozone Sieve: More Global Weirding?". Scienceblogs.com. March 25, 2011. Archived from...

isolated by sieving or filtration, this fraction includes partially decomposed detritus and plant material, pollen, and other materials. When sieving to determine...