Sentence examples for exploiting soil from inspiring English sources

Roots are essential organs for exploring and exploiting soil resources, such as water and mineral nutrients.

Underground buildings have the potential to reduce energy demand in comparison to conventional aboveground buildings, by exploiting soil temperatures and ground cover.

Root density, instead, especially near the soil surface, becomes the most relevant trait for exploiting soil moisture when plant water supply is mainly provided by rainfall events during the root system development.

Most tree roots need air to survive and cannot exploit soil below the water table.

Descriptors of root development generally include maximum root length (MRL), which determines the baseline for access to nutrient and water resources, and root number (RN), root thickness (RTHK), and root length density, which determine the intensity of colonization of the soil profile and the ability to exploit soil resources within the baseline.

Intensively exploited soils need an external supply of stabilized organic matter, such as compost, in order to counteract progressive SOM decline.

Microorganisms such as mycorrhizae [1] and, more recently, bacteria [2] have been proved to optimize plant nutrients intake, thereby replacing inorganic fertilization without exhausting N, S and P stocks in heavily exploited soils.

It is likely that invading taxa with this trait will also be exploiting deep soil moisture or groundwater provided it is accessible.

Chickpeas have become a favored winter crop in recent years because of their drought hardiness and ability to exploit stored soil water.

These differences appeared to be attributable to differences in root depth and density between the physiognomic types, and thus to different ways that the two growth forms exploit available soil water, the tall form having a consistently more conservative water-use strategy as the dry season progressed than the short form (Veenendaal et al., 2008).

Therefore, it is a plausible working hypothesis that the radioisotopes may be displaced from complexes or adsorption sites, mobilized by water, and then immobilized in the underlying layers of the soil, exploiting the sorbent and complexing capacities of the soil.