Sentence examples for increased soil acidity from inspiring English sources

Moreover, the land use practices such as cultivation and continuous use of inorganic fertilizers might have contributed to the decline in soil pH (increased soil acidity) at the surface soils of the cultivated land.

Continuous dependence on chemical fertilizers may be accompanied by a decline in soil organic matter content, increased soil acidity, degradation of soil physical properties and increased rate of erosion due to instability of soil aggregates (Adeoluwa and Adeogun 2010).

However, blanket application of inorganic fertilizer to farmland soils without adequate knowledge of the nutrient status, often leads to increased soil acidity, particularly when nitrogen fertilizers are applied (Akande et al. 2010).

Furthermore, Obi and Ofonduro (1997) and Moyin-Jesu (2007) also reported that problems associated with continuous use of chemical fertilizers included nutrient imbalance, increased soil acidity, degradation in soil physical properties and loss of organic matter.

The changes in the treatments, layout and plot nomenclature of just one plot (Plot 2) on the Park Grass Experiment in response to increasing soil acidity is illustrated and documents the increasing complexity of the experiment over time (Supplementary Figure 4 and Fig. 149).

Thus, this result suggested that chemical fertilizer could increase soil acidity to some extent.

Oliveira et al. (2007), Korndörfer et al. (2005) and de Camargo et al. (2007) argued that the concentration of available soil Si (whether native Si or added as an amendment) decreases with increasing soil acidity (Korndörfer et al. 2005).

Forests dominated by P. chiapensis are the first to appear after disturbance and play important environment services, including accumulation of carbon, shading the soil surface, fostering soil development, and facilitating the release of nutrients from the bedrock to the soil by increasing soil acidity (del Castillo et al. 2009).

We conclude that repeated application of litter contaminated with glyphosate negatively affects earthworm vitality and increases soil acidity and acid phosphatase activity.

Infiltration-driven alteration of chemical soil properties like pH, and carbon to nitrogen ratio (C/N) and particle surface properties like oxygen to carbon ratio (O/C), may also affect soil wettability with a trend to increased soil water repellency (SWR) with increased acidity.

Therefore, organic matter accumulation might reduce soil erosion resulting in higher soluble base cations (Ca2+ and Mg2+) that reduce H+ responsible for acidity, which in turn increases soil pH in the soil.