Sentence examples for soil matter from inspiring English sources

Montgomery says: "People are starting to realise how overfertilisation has destroyed organic soil matter, the stuff that fed the microbes in our yard.

"If, in a warmer world, bacteria decompose organic soil matter faster, releasing carbon dioxide," Dr. Ciais wrote, "this will set up a positive feedback loop, speeding up global warming".

Carbon content measured between 46 and 64% of total soil matter, with a mean of 59%.

This exchange mechanism reduces the permeability of soil matter and eventually results in soil with poor internal drainage (Karanth 1987).

Conductivity and oxygen diffusivity of soil conditions are represented as functions of soil matter, air porosity, and volumetric wetness.

Substrate-induced respiration [3] was measured in three 500-mL Erlenmeyer flasks per treatment filled with 100 g dry soil matter and 400 mg glucose, mixed homogenously.

The blood in the soil mattered.

NRDC's "Soil Matters" report describes how we can build farms that are more resilient to climate change by encouraging low risk, water-smart practices that regenerate soil.

Therefore, we tested the use of ions normally present in inorganic fertilisers, in a combination able to obtain a leaching effect on the soil matter-heavy element complexes without endangering the soil characteristics.

A neural network model was trained to predict soil organic matter content, bulk density and soil organic matter density at different soil profile depths across Scotland.

For example, with the exception of histosols that have 13-27% soil organic matter (by weight) [ 13], average soil organic matter contents of soils in sub-Saharan Africa range (between) 0.5-3.0% whereas temperate Europe and America soils record up to 10-13% soil organic matter.