Sentence examples for microbial activity characterization from inspiring English sources

A few main areas of investigation may be listed: particle and radiation environment, chemical composition of atmosphere, meteorology, chemical composition of dust, surface and subsurface material, water in the subsurface, physical properties of the soil, search for an hypothesized microbial activity, characterization of radio-electric properties of the Martian ionosphere.

Respirometry, which is widely used for the monitoring of oxygen uptake in different biochemical processes provides a procedure to assess the state of microbial activity and is used for the determination of the parameters of microbial kinetic models including the characterization of wastewater and activated sludge (Marsili and Tabani 2002; Young and Cowan 2004).

One is to look for current microbial activity.

But the microbial activity beneath their feet has now aerated the soil.

He found that microbial activity and soil nitrogen increased, both indications that the bugs were decomposing.

There she learned that compost has a lot more microbial activity than peat moss, and is far more sustainable.

"The measurements we've made show that microbial activity from methane-producing microbes is insignificant on Mars," Nasa scientist Chris Webster told the Guardian.

In Boerum Hill, they can compost in their backyard (where microbial activity and decomposition slow down or stop in the winter, but pick up in the spring).

Lifting the core sample by its grassy top, he showed how the soil clung to the roots, another effect of all that microbial activity.

Warmer soils will have encouraged greater microbial activity so more rapid decay of organic matter in the soil, leading to greater discharges of gases.

The key is microbial activity, they determined.