Sentence examples for clearance soil from inspiring English sources

Slope deposits in North Pare provide evidence of two millennia of anthropogenically driven land clearance, soil erosion and land degradation.

Land clearance, soil erosion, and corresponding accumulation of colluvial slope deposits on the valley floor triggered paludification and the establishment of the Lomwe palaeowetland in the 7th century AD.

However, if not managed in a sustainable way, the use of wood can cause direct impacts from extraction and distribution (such as excessive harvesting leading to clearance, soil erosion, loss of forest area, and loss of biodiversity in plantations and secondary forest) and disturbance to material cycles (such as the reduction of the carbon storage function).

This research explores the socio-economic, climatic and lithological components of the contemporary erosion problems in the Sorbas area of Almeria, Spain, and devises a mapping schedule to describe the particular risks associated with the large-scale clearance of dispersive soils for arboriculture.

The beginnings of food production represents a strategic shift in human behaviour, towards the manipulation of the soil environment (clearance, tillage) and through an influence on the composition of plant populations in that soil (via preferential seeding and tending of one or a few species).

It occurs mainly through intensive and continuous cropping without replenishing the nutrient component of soils and through deforestation and clearance of vegetation on sandy soils ([Ayoub 1999]).

In small-scale catchments, land clearance and cultivation are seen to lead to an increase in soil erosion rates, especially on sloping land.

The steepness of slope, excessive forest clearance, and overuse of soils have led to serious deterioration of the environment of this northern region.

A raft of practices – from deforestation for land clearance to the types of intensive farming that exhausts nutrients or make the soil too salty for crops – contribute to depleted soils.

Examination of peat cores and pollen records indicates that soil erosion (suggesting clearance of woodland for agricultural purposes) was taking place in 3470 BC and that evidence of arable cultivation by Neolithic communities exists from 2460 BC.

The proposed abutment decouples the in-service response of the bridge from the backfill soil by small clearances at the expansion joints, which separate the deck from the abutment.