1.   Abundant shrubs and a thick carpet of roots and decaying vegetation also can shelter and nurture a fire for days or weeks.

2.   If you create an instant bed over grass, earthworms will colonize the area under the newspapers and feed on the decaying vegetation.

3.   It may be caused by naturally decaying vegetation and sealife in the mudflats adjacent to Logan International Airport.

4.   The heavy rains during the winter created a lot of decaying vegetation, an ant favorite, this summer.

5.   There was a great deal of seaweed on the beach, and the odor is consistent with decaying vegetation.

6.   Haze hovers overhead most of the day, and the stench of decaying vegetation wafts on a light breeze.

7.   If the trends continue, he said the Arctic would no longer become an absorber of carbon gases, but a contributor, because of decaying vegetation.

8.   If the trends continue, he said the Arctic would no longer become an absorber of carbon gases but a contributor because of decaying vegetation.

9.   If the trends continue, he said the Arctic would no longer become an aborber of carbon gases but a contributor because of decaying vegetation.