Sentence examples for open soils from inspiring English sources

We compared A. adenophora and non- A. adenophora (open) soils in order to understand its impact on belowground processes largely because such comparisons would include long-term changes in nutrient and litter dynamics (Meisner et al. 2011).

In Mussoorie, we observed an increase in the levels of available nitrogen in the A. adenophora rhizosphere of 95.62 % in the Hill-slope site (df = 28, t = −4.450, P < 0.0001) and 510.17 % in the Forest site (df = 28, t = −4.467, P = 0.001) compared with open soils (Fig. 3).

Higher levels of nitrogen-fixing bacterial communities are reported in the A. adenophora rhizosphere compared with open soils (Xu et al. 2012) but nitrogen levels in the present study seem to link with microbial activities as evident from higher nitrogen levels in sterilized A. adenophora rhizosphere soil (Fig. 1B).

Our data on higher levels of nitrogen in A. adenophora soils compared with open soils could be explained by the higher build-up of organic C (3.3 %) below its canopies compared with open forest soil (0.8 %), which could be due to higher A. adenophora litterfall (non-forest area, 1.4 10.6 g m−2; forest area, 4.5 17.6 g m−2).

Ragweed is an annual; each year its seedlings require open soil in order to become established.

They tear open soil – releasing as much carbon as felling trees – and consume energy in laying down tarmac and erecting brick, concrete, glass and stone.

According to Fry, it can produce 2,000 butterhead lettuces in 28 days; a crop that would take three times as long in open soil.

The new method uses much less water and energy than open soil farming, and requires no pesticides or fungicides, but nevertheless, on most hydroponic farms, chemicals are used to sterilise the water, and some nutrients are synthesised.

Chaffinch and siskin blow from hedge-tops into fields of open soil routed by tines and tyres, each rut running with water so the rolling land looks like woodcuts.

Radiation counters were handed out, and if these started to chatter too quickly – usually if we wandered off paths and on to open soil – we were told to make a detour.

Powerline plots with the greatest richness were those that included a maintenance road or other areas of disturbed, open soil.