Sentence examples for rainforest soil from inspiring English sources

Some of the reported organisms are, e.g. Klebsiella and Pseudomonas spp. from compost samples (Ravi et al. 2017), Cupriavidus basilensis B-8 (Shi et al. 2013) and Comamonas sp. B-9 from eroded bamboo slips (Chen et al. 2012), Bacillus pumilus and Bacillus atrophaeus from biodiversity-rich rainforest soil (Huang et al. 2013) and Trabulsiella sp. isolated from termite gut (Suman et al. 2016).

Soil conditions vary with location and climate, although most rainforest soils tend to be permanently moist and soggy.

Compared to tropical rainforest soils in the Pacific Basin, Pacific temperate rainforest have greater weatherable minerals, cation-exchange capacities, soil organic C, and total exchangeable base cations.

Although tropical rainforest soils are relatively infertile and degrade rapidly once the forest cover is stripped away, vast areas of the Amazon are being converted to cattle ranching and to large plantations growing soy and other crops for export, much of it bound for China.

Soil erosion after deforestation adds significant mercury loads, which are found naturally in rainforest soils, to rivers.

African rice may have a lower yield, but its pest resistance and adaptation to environmental stress perfectly suits the low input agricultural system of the Maroons on the acid rainforest soils of Suriname.

That could be the moment that climate change passes a point of no return, when ice sheets start to collapse and parched rainforests and soils dump their carbon into the air, accelerating warming.

Based on Chimner and Ewel [ 2005], fine root production amounted to approximately 11% of total plant production in a tropical peatland forest, while Malhi et al. [ 2011] estimated that coarse root production contributed approximately 7% to total plant production in tropical rainforest on mineral soil.

The Pacific coast, including the department of Chocó, with its lush rainforest and infertile soils, is sparsely inhabited.

They are particularly prevalent in tropical rainforests where the soil is poor and the roots are close to the surface.

Manioc cultivation and the processing of flour is a practice adapted to soil and rainforest conditions, also originating from indigenous peoples (Adams et al. 2013).