In conjunction with these soil factors, the crop is regularly challenged by an extensive array of soil borne and foliar pests and diseases.
The two transects crossed a wide array of soil parent materials, soil ages, climatic conditions, landforms, land covers and land uses.
This station has a large array of soil moisture sensors in profile across the field, which is approximately 700 m in diameter.
Fine-scale differences in microtopography have been shown to control a variety of key ecosystem attributes and processes that influence ecosystem function, such as snow distribution and depth13, surface and subsurface hydrology13,14, vegetation composition2,11,12, carbon dioxide and methane fluxes5,6,15,16, soil carbon and nitrogen content17,18,19, and an array of soil characteristics18,20.
An understanding of the three styles of responses is provided by experiments involving a highly instrumented model displacement pile and an array of soil stress sensors installed in fine sand in a pressurised calibration chamber.
For one method, we adapted a standard screening protocol to directly identify plaque-forming units (PFUs) or "free" phage particles within >150 different environmental extracts from an array of soil, fresh water and marine samples, as well as herbivore feces, rhizosphere and phylloplane washings, decaying organic matter, and soil invertebrate intestines.
Any array of contiguous soils influenced by local flora and fauna is termed a biosequence.
The objective of this study was to use an array of 20 soil heat flux plates and soil temperature sensors to characterize the spatial and temporal variability in soil heat flux as affected by vegetation and micro-topographic effects of mesquite dunes in the Jornada Experimental Range in southern New Mexico.
The prediction of evaporation from Mediterranean woodland ecosystems is complicated by an array of climate, soil and plant factors.
