Sentence examples for reaching the soil from inspiring English sources

By blocking light from reaching the soil, they inhibited the germination of tree and shrub seeds.

The tree canopy reduces solar radiation reaching the soil surface, but the trapped air increases air temperature near the soil surface.

This succession may be correlated with changes in the intensity of irradiation reaching the soil surface due to the altered canopy during the growth of the rice plant (Choudhary, 2009).

Pesticides reaching the soil after spraying may affect soil quality by disturbing some soil organisms such as earthworms, microbes and natural enemies which acts as decomposers (Ntiamoah and Afrane 2008).

Vegetation was shown to have a large impact on surface-air Hg fluxes due to both a reduction in solar radiation reaching the soil as well as from direct uptake of Hg in foliage.

Results obtained revealed that rainwater amounts reaching the soil may temporarily be modified by covers according to precipitation properties and antecedent conditions (from dry to wet) before the rain episode.

Just a mile from the scablands, where the water did not reach, the soil is rich.

Some of that water may have been trapped in the multiple layers of lining in the pool, but an undetermined amount reached the soil below, Tepco said.

The Vizetellys made some cuts, in deference to the sensibilities of Victorian ladies, but when the series reached The Soil, Ernest's unavoidably earthy version of La Terre, the National Vigilance Association decided something had to be done.

Contractors are instructed to dig down on each plot until they reach the soil but they only seem to have exposed a contaminated mess of subsoil, rubble and rubbish.

On sunny days, about 20% of incident solar radiation can reach the soil surface.