We also investigated the fate of the introduced B. cereus ss population in similar soil samples "cleared" of their own microbiota by treatment with chloroform fumigation, and no change in the level of the newly introduced B. cereus ss population was observed (Brillard and Bérard, unpublished data).
Native mineral soil material was cleared of undecomposed leaf litter and collected to 15 cm depth from dolomitic and granitic parent materials within the current elevational range of ponderosa pine in the Santa Catalina Mountains of southern Arizona.
"It was sandy soil and had to be cleared of dense forest," said Rachel Rodgers, the executive director of the Cape May County division of culture and heritage.
— Water bottle in hand, Dennis Staley crouched over a patch of ground, cleared away surface soil with a finger and poured a couple of drops on the exposed layer.
Over the next five years, Mr. Gibson and his team, including volunteers from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, cleared out layers of soil, picking up about 250,000 shards from small jugs apparently used in purification rituals.
The results of redundancy analysis (RDA) also revealed clear separation of soil properties among slope positions.
Our results do not provide clear evidence of soil mediation for the location of monodominant forests in relation to adjacent mixed forests.
Ross et al. (1990) reviewed the impact of forest clearing on soil hydrology and erosion for tropical forest indicating that removal of forest cover in virtually all environments leads to instability in the soil cover, changes in the hydrological regime, soil erosion, and loss of productivity.
Nearby Inuit and Innu communities have staged massive opposition including hunger strikes, blockades, and marches in a push to clear the area of soil and vegetation prior to flooding, and independent monitoring with full indigenous participation.
In terms of there being a reversal in the losses of honeybees (or more importantly, pollinators generally), is two years sufficient to clear the soil of residual neonicotinoids?
