Sentence examples for shrub roots from inspiring English sources

Shrub roots contribute to this process by retrieving nutrients from the deep soil and depositing them in litter on the soil surface beneath the shrub canopy.

The eggs hatch after two to six weeks, and the young drop or crawl to the ground, enter the soil using their large digging claws, and begin a subterranean life, feeding on suitable tree and shrub roots for 16 years (periodical cicada).

In the open area, shrub roots have no influence on soil respiration.

The presence of shrub roots in the lower horizons increases the TOC concentration with root exudates, microbial soil biomass and dehydrogenase activity [57, 58].

However, at a distance of 1 m, host shrub roots are more scattered horizontally and the potential that some control individuals may have accessed hosts makes our results more conservative.

And in some places the government has begun to restore native species: sea buckthorn, a shrub rooted out in the 1980s as a plague, is being replanted in dry regions.

To acknowledge the importance of belowground interactions in savannas, shrub root growth and competition are modelled spatially explicitly.

Regenerated tree height and diameter at breast height, shrub root collar diameter, and soil properties (C, N, and total organic matter) of the forest floor and mineral soil layers were measured.

These results suggest that (1) shrub root systems act to increase downward water flux in desert soils via root channel preferential flow to deeper soil depths, and (2) this effect becomes more pronounced as shrubs and plant root systems become larger.

Root systems of 11 shrub or shrub-like species, 11 grass species, 19 perennial forb species and four annual forb species were excavated on the Jornada Experimental Range in the northern Chihuahuan Desert in southern New Mexico, U.S.A. Maximum radial horizontal spread of shrub root systems usually occurred above calcic and petrocalcic horizons at depths above 1 m.

It is believed that the plasticity and architecture of the shrub root systems, enabling them to compete with the grasses for soil water in the upper soil horizons and also access soil water at depths beyond the reach of grass roots, has been a major reason for the increase of shrubs during the historical period in this arid environment.