Usage examples (37)

• The rim of this lake is composed mostly of detrital rocks, which are rarely exposed.
• When the ice begins to break up in spring, the seaweeds are torn from the rocks and enter into the detrital cycle.
• Most of the primary productivity is routed through detrital pathways but herbivory can be important, particularly by muskrats and geese.
• Hence, as vegetation shifts from mosses and lichens to grasses and woody species, runoff is very likely to contain increasing concentrations of DOC and particulate...