Sentence examples for modification of soil from inspiring English sources

In hedged landscapes, the hedge structure induces a modification of soil organization at the landscape scale and another modification of soil geometry and properties at the slope scale.

The model also can easily be localized by simple modification of soil and crop properties.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of land use on ant and termite communities in Colombian savanna landscapes, and to assess whether this impact is associated with the modification of soil physical and chemical properties.

Porous media containing sharp wettability discontinuities may occur in natural systems due to depositional processes, accumulation of organic layers or modification of soil wettability following intense forest fires all of which are known to significantly modify water flow and transport processes.

Soil carbon (C) is crucial for maintaining soil functions, and it increases after conversion of an agricultural field from conventional tillage management to no-tillage management due to decreasing human-induced soil disturbance and the modification of soil structure through ecosystem engineers such as earthworms.

The purpose of this study was to use micromorphological analysis and NIRS techniques to assess the role of soil fauna in the recovery of soil aggregates and in the modification of soil microstructure in a chronosequence of rehabilitated areas at Cerrejon coal mine (La Guajira, Colombia).

These, alongside other minor modifications of soil profiles such as formation of biopores and generation of hydrophobicity, fall generally within our all-embracing "Phytotarium Concept".

Among other driving forces, climate change may lead to significant modifications of soil properties through variations of the intensity and dynamics of a number of soil processes including the especially sensitive and ubiquitous processes of bioturbation and illuviation.

Understanding the spatial stability of the plant-feeding nematode (PFN) community in agrosystems represents a fundamental step in the integrated control of some damaging species because modifications of soil properties in intensively managed agrosystems may allow growers to manipulate the balance between pathogenic and non-pathogenic species.

The resulting framework includes both direct effects (such as disturbance and incidental predation) and indirect effects (through modifications of soil and vegetation properties) of large herbivores on arthropod communities.

The genoform phenoform concept (where soil phenoforms arise from a genoform due to modification of dynamic soil properties through specific land use history) was used to frame three hypotheses.