Sentence examples for responsive to soil from inspiring English sources

To aid foraging, plants have evolved roots whose growth and development are highly responsive to soil signals.

However, DP and DC were less responsive to soil EC at sandy sites that tended to have low soil moisture.

The significant covariation between pH and bacterial diversity may be related to Acidobacteria, a dominant group of soil Bacteria [43] known to be highly responsive to soil pH [22].

Excluding species from riverine habitats, which may not be responsive to soil biota from that habitat, or Fabaceae species, which may have a different feedback due to symbiosis with rhizobia did not alter the significance of the results (data not shown).

It appears that the two sensors were less responsive to the soil drying between irrigations events than gravimetric method.

Model parameters were responsive to varying soil characteristics (pH, C, N, C N), amendment N C, amendment rate, incubation temperature, and N additions.

Examining the distribution of eroded phase soils within survey-independent large-scale physiographic (EPA Level III Ecoregion) boundaries reveals consistent patterns in land-use histories and eroded soils, and that the pattern and distribution of eroded phase soils at regional to continental scales are responsive to the five soil forming factors.

Therefore, wild barley appears to be more responsive to fine-grained soil heterogeneity (i.e., split pots) under low-nutrient conditions – presumably similar to their natural environment – whereas domesticated barley expresses greater plasticity in response to coarse-grained heterogeneity at the among-plant level (i.e., whole pots at different fertilizer levels).

Soil available P was particularly responsive to management, irrespective of soil type, as it was more concentrated on the plots closest to homesteads on wealthy farms (8 13 mg kg−1), compared with plots further from homesteads and all plots on poor farms (2 6 mg kg−1).

This indicates that grassland soils were responsive to changes in vegetation and may therefore be resilient to invasion.

These differences indicate that grassland soils are responsive to vegetation change, and therefore not resistant to invasion-caused feedbacks.