Sentence examples for soil feeding from inspiring English sources

Many inhabit water films or pore spaces in leaf litter and in the soil, feeding on smaller microorganisms that decompose organic material.

This impact on the soil organic matter humification process is due to the most important feeding habit in terms of species diversity, the soil feeding termites (∼1 200 species).

These shifts of the organic matter into long turnover pool generated by the termite gut transit and deposition in the termitosphere indicate that besides the earthworm, the soil feeding termite has a positive impact on the overall organic matter cycling in the tropics.

While there is some controversy around raising grazing animals, grasslands actually depend on timely and proper grazing pulses to remove buildup of dead grass that shades out future growth, and then biologically incorporate this organic matter into the soil, feeding it and preparing the soil surface to absorb the rains when they come.

Mrs. Emmen-Mainka's father began cultivating flowers in this rich soil, fed by tributaries of the Elbe River, three decades ago.

"The compost feeds the soil, the soil feeds the plants and the plants feed the animals, which includes us," Jenkins told me over the phone.

Healthier soil feeds healthier plants, which feed healthier cows, which produce healthier milk, which makes healthier people.

Our teachers worked hard to make sure that regardless of the passage of the years, the richness of that soil fed our soul so it would remain fruitful and faithful to the cause of keeping our heritage alive for generations to come.

Friedman plants all her trees in the same commercial potting soil, feeds them a common garden-variety fertilizer two or three times during their fruit-bearing periods, soaks them with a hose at least once a week--twice in hot weather--and puts a clove of garlic in each pot to ward off slugs and snails.

It is an epigeic earthworm living on the upper surface of soils feeding mainly on plant litter and other organic debris available on the soil surface.

The third group is known as epigeics which live on upper surface of soils feeding mainly on plant litter and other organic debris available on the soil surface.