Sentence examples for changes on the soil from inspiring English sources

Ongoing climate change modifies snowpack quantity and quality, but the consequences of these changes on the soil functioning remain largely unknown.

In this context, our study aimed to assess the impact of climate changes on the soil water balance and natural groundwater recharge in a semiarid area (Ventós-Castellar aquifer, SE, Spain).

The first objective of this experiment is to investigate the influence of climatic changes on the soil response such as changes in water content and temperature as well as the induced vertical and horizontal displacements; and the second objective is to investigate the soil response under water flooding from the base of embankment.

In this study, we measured the magnetic properties of soil samples collected from the three JMA observatories, and we have examined the effect of temperature change on the soil magnetization to the geomagnetic annual variations.

Our results support the previous consideration of C. punctulatus as an ecosystem engineer, although in this case related to the changes produced on the soil surrounding the anthills which may affect the survival and distribution of other soil organisms.

For example, climatic control of local vegetation zones was often found insufficient to explain vegetation changes; on the contrary, soil patterns and geologic history quite override climatic control in many localities.

The structure of any individual pixel can be changed, depending on the soil condition and the operation type.

The reduction factor obtained from tensile tests was, in most cases, conservative to represent the changes observed on the soil-geosynthetic interface strength.

The effect of community change on community productivity was stronger in the semi-arid grassland than in the mesic grassland, where community biomass change on one soil was not correlated with the change in either the soil water content or the dominant taxa.

However, to broaden the view, we also capitalize upon studies focusing on the effects of isolation and soil use changes on soil organisms and on dispersal of soil fauna, all of these being considered as factors determining the sensitivity of organisms to habitat fragmentation.

Direct effects rely on chemical and physical changes in the soil matrix which in turn make the medium inhospitable or noxious to plant-parasitic nematodes (Haydock et al. 2006; Guerena 2006).