Sentence examples for erosion compaction from inspiring English sources
Environment writer George Monbiot has pointed out how biogas from anaerobic digesters (AD), which utilises methane from crops – notionally a Good Thing – can actually take land of out food production, cause soil erosion, compaction and run-off.
But it gets worse, because maize farming could scarcely be better designed to cause soil erosion, compaction and run-off, which threaten the fertility of the land, the health of our freshwater ecosystems and the homes at risk from flooding.
Unlike soil erosion, compaction and pollution, breaches of this rule are easy to detect and enforce: if the inspectors see trees returning to the land, the subsidy can be cut off altogether.
Besides raindrop erosion, compaction occurred during the first rain.
Soils have deteriorated as a result of erosion, compaction, loss of organic matter and contamination with pesticides, and in some areas, heavy metals.
It was instrumental in destroying the proposed European soil framework directive, which would have reduced flooding by preventing the erosion and compaction of the soil.
It noted that "intensive grazing can cause soil erosion and compaction, and prevent regeneration of scrub and trees, thus speeding water run-off".
It campaigned, with the help of successive British governments, against the European Union's proposed soil framework directive, which sought to minimise soil erosion and compaction, to prevent landslides and to prevent soil from being contaminated with toxic substances.
The directive would have obliged the member states to minimise soil erosion and compaction, maintain the organic matter contained in the soil, prevent landslides and prevent soil from being contaminated with toxic substances.
The researchers hypothesized that young trees did not have much of a fighting chance against the erosion, soil compaction, and loss of tree canopy shelter caused by logging.
The percentage basal and litter covers and estimated soil erosion and compaction were obtained by randomly throwing five 0.5 m × 0.5 m quadrats within each sub-plot.
