Sentence examples for erosion runoff from inspiring English sources

However, scientific reports about biomass ethanol raise some of the same concerns that have been raised with corn ethanol, including potential problems with soil erosion, runoff and soil fertility.

Nitrogen is also lost from plants and soil in terrestrial environments via other routes, including erosion, runoff, volatilization of ammonia into the atmosphere, and leaching from soils into lakes and streams.

Rock fragments have a complex influence on soil hydrological processes (e.g. soil erosion, runoff generation, water infiltration, solute transport and water flow) and are highly relevant in a typical system in the soil plant atmosphere continuum.

Soil erosion, runoff, and soil water content patterns over a three-year period were monitored in erosion plots on a mountainside with rainfed olive (Olea europaea cv. Picual) trees under: 1) non-tillage with barley strips of 4 m width (BS); 2) non-tillage with native vegetation strips of 4 m width (NVS); and 3) non-tillage without plant strips (NT).

In this study, Mahleran (Model for Assessing Hillslope to Landscape Erosion Runoff, And Nutrients) is extensively evaluated against runoff and erosion data from four plots (representative of different stages of land degradation) over a transition from grassland to shrubland, at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico, USA.

The establishment of a suitable plant on the soil is helpful in preventing the dispersion of contaminants through erosion, runoff, and percolation while increasing biodiversity as well as being aesthetically pleasant [16, 17, 18].

O. Kuntze)] on control of steepland erosion was evaluated in a replicated researcher-managed field experiment, and 12 farmer-managed erosion-runoff plots from 1995 to 1998 across the landscape of the Manupali watershed in Mindanao, the Philippines.

The statistical parameters for the mean quasi-steady state erosion and runoff rates of each test, the optimum conditions for producing maximum erosion and runoff, and the main effect and percentage contribution of each factor obtained from the full-factorial and Taguchi designs were compared.

That reduced erosion, the runoff of chemicals into waterways and the use of fuel for tractors.

Because tilling disturbs the soil, it facilitates erosion and runoff of nutrients and chemicals.

Coastal development results in erosion, and runoff containing the excess sediment can block the light zooxanthellae need.