Assertion: termite | /r/HasProperty | beneficial
Facets:
value: to the environment
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: for maintaining decomposition
type: PURPOSE
value: ecologically
type: DEGREE
value: in nature
type: LOCATION
value: as long as they remain
type: OTHER
value: in several ways
type: MANNER
value: to humanity
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: to agriculture
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: extremely
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Termites are also extremely beneficial in that they help to convert plant cellulose into substances that can be recycled into the ecosystem to support new growth.
text: Termites can be beneficial to agriculture, such as by boosting crop yields and enriching the soil.
text: Termites can be beneficial because they decompose dead plant matter and return the nutrients to the ecosystem, just like earthworms and fungi.
text: While a serious threat to wooden structures, termites are also beneficial.
text: Even though termite is beneficial to humanity in several ways, yet this insect pose tremendous economic damage to our ecosystem.
text: Termites are beneficial to the environment
text: As long as they remain outside in the woods and landscape, termites are beneficial.
text: In nature, termites are beneficial as they help convert dead wood and other materials containing cellulose into humus.
text: Although termites are ecologically beneficial in that they break down detritus to add nutrients to soil, the same feeding behaviors that prove helpful to the ecosystem can cause severe damage to human homes.
text: When termites stay outdoors, they can be beneficial.
text: Termites are beneficial to the environment because they break down dead trees and other plant material into substances useful to plants, but they certainly aren’t beneficial to you in your house!
text: Given that droughts are predicted to become more frequent and severe with further climate change, termites may be beneficial for maintaining decomposition, soil moisture, nutrients and seedling survival during droughts, and this may also be true in other ecosystems including agricultural systems.