Sentence examples for proportion of soil from inspiring English sources

Sieving method also affected the proportion of soil C associated with the various size fractions.

The proportion of soil cover by plant species was estimated and the Shannon Wiener diversity and equitability indexes determined for each treatment and year.

In general, dry sieving resulted in greater proportion of soil C (48 to 73% of the total C in the 0 to 10 and 10 to 20 cm, respectively) associated with the 150 53 and < 53 μm fractions.

In anaerobic conditions, a greater proportion of soil organic carbon decomposition is released as CH4, although not all of it necessarily reaches the atmosphere". Following this paragraph, the paper cites several scenarios for large-scale releases from permafrost carbon, including the 50-100 Gt carbon release I mentioned.

A number of soil microbial properties varied by soil type, but, in general, a smaller proportion of measured soil microbial properties showed soil type effects compared to the proportion of soil physical and chemical properties that showed soil type effects.

Significant differences in the proportion of soil cover only occurred within the planted area in the first year, when slash removal without soil preparation induced the highest understory cover.

Europe, Central America, and North America have the highest proportion of soils suitable for farming, although a number of the more developed countries seem intent on paving over much of their best farmland with roads and buildings.

Soil texture (relative proportions of soil particles of varied sizes) is a fundamental soil physical property affecting almost all other soil physical properties and processes of agricultural, environmental and engineering importance.

The roots absorb soil water in proportion to the distributions of root mass density of the respective horizons, except when conditions of low soil water content prevail, in which case the relatively wetter horizons provide higher proportions of soil water to the plant in order to obviate plant stress as long as possible.

The pH of soil was determined using the 1 1 method, where 1 1 proportions of soil and deionized water suspension was stirred vigorously for 20 min.

Among the most commonly used methods, the soil nomograph uses relative proportions of soil texture, permeability, soil structure and organic matter content (Wischmeier and Smith 1978; Abate 2011; Hailu and Klik 2015; Kebede et al. 2015).