Drainage at the site has, however, resulted in some degradation in blanket bog vegetation adjacent to ditches; although at the landscape scale, historic high grazing levels appear to explain much of the current poor ecological condition of the site.
Non-hydrochorous metacommunities were dependent on a large set of land-use elements, either within the landscape mosaic or adjacent to the ditch network, whereas hydrochorous plant metacommunities were only impacted by the presence of ditches adjacent to crops and roads.
Pools and processes included: 1) soil organic (SOC) and inorganic (SIC) C and water-extractable organic carbon (WEOC); 2) macronutrient (N and P) concentrations by depth, within and adjacent to drainage ditches; and 3) within-ditch nutrient (N and P) storage, cycling, and release.
It then struck a low earthen wall adjacent to a ditch, becoming momentarily airborne, clipped the airport perimeter fence with its landing gear, and smashed into trees, separating the fuselage and flight deck from the tail.
Agricultural ditches adjacent to paddy fields are expected to provide an alternative habitat to the fields for Tetragnatha spiders, a major component of the natural enemies of crop pests in rice paddy ecosystems.
Although prevalent in the Atlantic Coastal Plain, roadside ditches adjacent to pine plantations have had few surveys of vertebrate diversity and little is known about local and landscape level effects of silvicultural activities on species assemblages.
Months after a photo showed a once-majestic looking mountain lion ravaged by a case of mange in Griffith Park, adjacent Glendale is ditching the kind of rat poison linked to the famous cat's condition.
Ground and tiger beetles were sampled in ditch borders adjacent to 20 cornfields in 2006 and 2007 in Quebec Canadaa).
The approximate calculation shows that about 90,000 kJ heat was transported from thawing ditch to adjacent permafrost in 2009.
