Sentence examples for restricted soil from inspiring English sources

In addition to this, excess irrigation raises the water table to within 2 m of soil surface through capillary action, this coupled with poor percolation due to impervious strata, application of excessive fertilizers, restricted soil drainage and changes in cropping pattern lead to salinization of the shallow waters of this region.

These include specialization to restricted soil types [43], the spread of invasive species [44], local adaptation of populations within species, and genetic constraints on evolutionary response to climate change [45].

Our results indicate that C composition rather than C quantity shaped soil microbial community composition and enzyme activity, restricting soil C decomposition.

Restricting soil carbon measurements to the surface 0.30 m of soil may result in erroneous conclusions with respect to the influence of land management on the accumulation of carbon in soil.

Deliberately set fires were the cause of the deforestation, and forest regrowth is restricted by soil erosion and the presence of fire-resistant, exotic grasses.

Other species such as Proleptomonas faecicola are known as saprotrophs [61] even though they are restricted to soil habitats.

The use of heavy machinery for timber harvesting causes soil damage, which may restrict forest soil functions over decades.

However, our work suggests that plants restricted to soils with elevated metals generally have lower metal concentrations in floral organs relative to plants not restricted to such soils.

For example, the group consisting of P. novae-zelandiae and P. wallii are restricted to soils derived from schist whereas another group consisting of P. fastigiatum, P. enysii and P. stellatum are confined to greywacke soils.

Root system was severely restricted at sandy soil when BD > 1.70 Mg m−3 and Pr > 1.5 MPa, while for clayey soil the critical values were BD > 1.25 Mg m−3 and Pr > 2.5 MPa.

In New Caledonia, 2150 species occur on ultramafic soils of which 83% are restricted to these soils (Jaffré 1992; Jaffré and L'Huillier 2010), whereas in Cuba, 920 species (approximately one-third of the taxa endemic to Cuba) are found exclusively on ultramafic soils (Borhidi 1992).