Sentence examples for amendment of soil from inspiring English sources

Amendment of soil with compost increases soil phosphorous (Eichler-Löbermann et al. 2007).

These differences show that the amendment of soil with compost or FYM highly influenced the bacterial composition.

The amendment of soil with biochar can sequester carbon and alter hydrologic properties by changing physical and chemical characteristics of soil.

In the same way, Ouni et al. (2014) reported that the amendment of soil with municipal solid waste compost (MSC) at 100 t ha−1 increased plant yields of two forages species (H. vulgare and P. monspeliensis).

The soil-compost mixture and fertilized soil differed in the majority of putative degraders (indicator genera), indicating that soil management, e.g. amendment of soil with compost or FYM, alters the microbial community structure and the pool of potential pyrene degraders.

Our results also show that there is a narrow range of bacteria capable of processing cellobiose in soil, but there is a broader versatility of enzyme action in the dominant organisms advantageously selected by amendment of soil with specific carbon sources.

To our knowledge, this is the first-ever investigation of the long-term effects of AC amendment on soil microbial communities under realistic field conditions.

To understand the effect of biochar amendment on soil hydrology, we measured the hydraulic conductivity (K) of biochar sand mixtures as well as dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in leachate.

Our study suggests that wheat straw-derived biochar amendment of paddy soils increased soil pH, which in turn increased the abundance and diversity of AOB and N2O emissions.

Biochar amendment of the soil decreased bioavailability of As from the soils as assessed by Mt. Brome plants, but did not change phosphate uptake (Fig. 7).

Bioremediation of PAH can be successfully stimulated by amendment of contaminated soil with organic materials; e.g. addition of mature compost to soil (Adam et al. 2015; Haderlein et al. 2001; Kästner and Mahro 1996; Kästner et al. 1995; Loick et al. 2009; Semple et al. 2001; Wu et al. 2013) or incubation with fresh organic waste [composting] (Peng et al. 2013; Zhang et al. 2011).