Sentence examples for predictor of soil from inspiring English sources
Soil electrical conductivity can be an important predictor of soil biological activity, affecting important soil processes related to physical and chemical interactions.
We found that within every soil group, chlorophyll a was a moderate to excellent predictor of soil stability (R2 = 0.21 0.75), and consistently better than EPS.
Our results suggest that broad land use categories are a poor predictor of soil organic matter chemistry when edaphic soil properties and specific management practices vary.
Results from this analysis support the notion that temporal variability in RS spectra, as driven by soil and climate feedbacks, is an important predictor of soil variability.
Modeled S deposition was found to be an unreliable predictor of soil S content as well as most other soil chemical properties.
In conclusion, the use of synthesized proximal data from PXRF and VisNIR was shown to be a solid, stable predictor of soil TC and TN with widespread agronomic and environmental science applications.
Our findings suggest that factors related to soil organic matter stabilization mechanisms (texture, polyvalent cations) were key predictors of soil organic carbon, along with variables that influence plant and microbial biomass (available phosphorus, pH) and soil moisture.
This study had two objectives: (1) to determine the parent material and landscape properties controlling the formation of the different depressional soils; and (2) to use these controls to identify quantitative, terrain-based predictors of soil type in depressions.
I also studied spatial variation in soil moisture, as a predictor of potential soil combustion, at a range of distances from edges of cypress-swamp patches.
The PVR approach allows us to test for statistical significance of effects of our predictors on soil microbial community structure.
However, our analysis of extensive areas with heath on shallow soils, based on vegetation and topographic maps, and fieldwork of uplands with various degrees of dissection, suggests that aspect is a poor predictor of shallow soils.
