Sentence examples for soil organisms from inspiring English sources

Mine tailings are inhospitable to plants and soil organisms, because of low pH and poor soil organic matter contents.

Furthermore, the exposure of soil organisms has been intensively studied with organic chemicals [20 23].

Soil organisms, which range in size from microscopic cells that digest decaying organic material to small mammals that live primarily on other soil organisms, play an important role in maintaining fertility, structure, drainage, and aeration of soil.

Some soil organisms are pests.

Dominant soil organisms are protozoans, nematodes, rotifers, and tardigrades.

"Worms are pretty hardy compared to other soil organisms," Dr. Pouyat said.

Other soil organisms form carbon dioxide, which on being dissolved in water becomes carbonic acid and aids in dissolving rock.

We know too little of the links that bind the soil organisms to each other, to their world, and to the world above.

Explosive increases in certain kinds of soil organisms have occurred when other kinds have been reduced by insecticides, disturbing the relation of predator to prey.

Sulfur-containing proteins are degraded into their constituent amino acids by the action of a variety of soil organisms.

Most strains of Bacillus are not pathogenic for humans but may, as soil organisms, infect humans incidentally.