Sentence examples for manipulation of soil from inspiring English sources

This necessitated human manipulation of soil and water environment to induce a drought response of higher grain productivity.

The design of soil working machines must be directed toward optimal manipulation of soil conditions in order to attain optimum soil conditions with minimum energy input.

However, it is not clear if the solely physical manipulation of soil or biological activity of earthworms lead to different SOM quality, which would result in a distinction in C loss and consequently C sequestration.

Long-term density manipulations of soil invertebrates in the field are labor-intensive and may not be perfectly successful.

The evidence for a relationship between density, P, and larval growth is further supported by our experimental manipulations of soil P and competition in the field and greenhouse.

The beginnings of food production represents a strategic shift in human behaviour, towards the manipulation of the soil environment (clearance, tillage) and through an influence on the composition of plant populations in that soil (via preferential seeding and tending of one or a few species).

Tillage is the manipulation of the soil into a desired condition by mechanical means; tools are employed to achieve some desired effect (such as pulverization, cutting, or movement).

Manipulations of the soil food web were carried out at two contrasting subarctic sites, a low altitude heath and a high altitude fellfield.