Sentence examples for mass surface casting from inspiring English sources

Earthworm mass, surface casting and burrowing activities were affected significantly by soil temperature, moisture and the temperature×moisture interaction.

Second, subsurface casts decreased root mass production and a significant positive correlation between forb root mass and surface cast production indicates that roots stimulated earthworm activity (Shipitalo et al. 1988; Zaller and Arnone 1997).

However, both number and mass of surface casts were significantly reduced by the presence of casts in soil microsites (Table  3).

Neither the number nor the mass of surface cast production was affected by earthworm treatments or the presence of AMF in subsurface microsites.

In both systems, we recorded surface cast density and spatial patterns as well as surface cast physical properties.

Means ± SE, n = 3 Earthworm surface casts were collected once a month, dried at 40 °C for 24 h, and weighed; cumulative surface cast production was used for statistical analysis.

The finding that the presence of subsurface casts significantly decreased earthworm surface cast production both in cast numbers and mass can be explained by several direct and indirect effects.

However, while we begin to understand the role of surface casts, it is still unclear to what extent plants utilize subsurface casts.

Earthworm activity was monitored once a week by observing surface casts, burrows or other relevant signs of their activity.

I thought about two dimensions, three dimensions, time, mass, volume, surface, skin".

Surface reaction was the rate-limiting step for DNT reduction on the graphite surface in cast iron, whereas internal mass transfer and/or adsorption and surface reaction were important for high-purity iron.