No further soil wetting was performed throughout the duration of the experiment, hence, mimicking non-rainy soil condition.
This component signifies dissolution of carbonate minerals as well as geogenic attributes, such as surface runoff during the rainy season, soil erosion, and weathering of mineral bearing rocks.
During the approximately 150 day-long dry season, as well as during multiple dry spells in the rainy season, soil water content at 50 cm depth was below permanent wilting point in both mobile and stabilised dunes.
Besides, during intense rainy periods soils under the CT system may develop hydrologic conditions that favor lateral flows while soils under the MT system were still draining.
Physicians should include B. pseudomallei in the differential diagnosis of travelers with pneumonia or sepsis who are returning from the Caribbean, particularly when they have a history of travel during the rainy season, soil-contaminated wounds, or known risk factors for melioidosis.
In average or rainy years, when soil water does not limit growth, lowered transpiration hinders nutrient uptake by trees in H plots (Tullus et al. 2012 a ), especially for nutrients migrating to the roots with mass flow in soil.
The outcomes of the monthly (seasonal) integrated total amount of productivity in the ecosystem, GPP and ER derived from the gap-filled NEE over the period for all the study sites showed that, in all cases, the assimilation of carbon (GPP) was mostly limited to the rainy season when soil moisture content was increased.
The hard clayey soils were often ploughed at the end of the rainy season, before the soil dried out, to facilitate timeliness of planting in the following growing season, and to enhance water infiltration at the onset of the rainy season.
Soil samples were taken at five random sites during the dry and rainy seasons from the soil surface and at depths of 20 cm.
Geologically, Santos features a combination of granite, clay, and sands, particularly important because these soils can become unstable during the rainy season when the soils can become saturated, exposed and susceptible to landslides.
While cultivating (especially in the rainy season when clay soils are pliant and workable), soil particles might thus enter the sweat glands and pores of the feet, perhaps aided by micro-abrasions caused by the high quartzite content of these soils.
