Sentence examples for dead soil from inspiring English sources

You're tilling what would have otherwise been dead soil and airing it out.

However "dead" soil may appear, it is in fact teeming with millions or billions of microbial cells per gram, depending upon soil fertility and the environment.

And what about Kroetz's Dead Soil at the Leicester Haymarket in 1992, in which a peasant girl's miscarriage was stuffed into the maggoty womb of her own dead grandmother?

While Quant imagines the decay of the dead: "Soil accepts for a serious purpose / The jettisoned blood of jokes and dreams.. ." And Rosetta imagines, with striking prescience, the world to come: "Odourless ages, an ordered world / Of planned pleasures and passport-control, / Sentry-go sedatives, soft drinks and / Managed money, a moral planet / Tamed by terror...".

After Hamlet confronts his mother in the famous bedroom scene ("Mother, you have my father much offended") and kills Polonius (Herb Foster), the brilliant costume designer, Oana Botez-Ban, re-clothes the remaining cast members in gray, black, and brown — colors that evoke not only the dead soil beneath the snowy wastes but the gloom that Hamlet has managed to unearth in the lives around him.

In estimating live C stores for the US, Heath and Smith [20, 21] subjected the FORCARB model to an uncertainty analysis and concluded that uncertainty for total forest C (i.e., live, dead, soil) in U.S. private forests was +/-9+/-9%their 20 petagram (Pg; 1 Pg = 1 × 1015 g) C estimate for the year 2000.

NuCycling-Succession models carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus nutrient fluxes and masses associated with the living biomass, dead biomass, soil organic matter, soil mineral N and P, charcoal, and bedrock nutrient pools.

Mapping forest degradation with remote sensing data is more challenging than mapping deforestation [29] because the degraded forest is a complex mix of different land cover types (vegetation, dead trees, soil, shade) and the signature of the degradation often changes within 1-2 years [30 32].

Mapping forest degradation with remote sensing data is more challenging than mapping deforestation [ 29] because the degraded forest is a complex mix of different land cover types (vegetation, dead trees, soil, shade) and the signature of the degradation often changes within 1-2 years [ 30- 32].

At the pixel level, degraded forests comprise mixed fractions of vegetation, dead wood, soil and shade ('mixels'mixels

Carbon output variables of the IBIS model include live and dead biomass, soil organic carbon, carbon losses from disturbance, as well as net primary productivity (NPP) and net biome productivity (NBP).