Sentence examples for soil sorting from inspiring English sources

To accurately assess what seeds were found in the soil and because seed bank studies in different systems have used soil sorting as a common assessment tool (Gross 1990; Price et al. 2010 a ), we manually sorted seeds from the remaining half of each soil sample for community comparison to the emergence trials.

We also regularly sampled plant roots from each mesocosm using a 1-cm soil corer to check for the presence of AMF colonization after staining with vinegar and ink (Vierheilig et al. 1998); soil voids were filled back with original soil after sorting out the roots.

She might wear latex gloves for light work in well-tilled soil, for sorting out rootlets and seedlings and delicate foliage.

It is all but upon Glenelg now, but has paused in the drive these past two weeks to practise scooping and sorting soil samples on a patch of ground the rover team has nicknamed Rocknest.

In the laboratory, fine roots contained in each soil block were sorted according to Pregitzer et al. (2002).

Soldiers winning the war, farmers digging the soil, that sort of thing".

We just stopped killing on our soil -- sort of.

"Job may include using hand tools such as knives, hoes, shovels, etc. Duties may include tilling the soil, transplanting, weeding, thinning, picking, cutting, sorting & packing of harvested produce.

The effects of topography on SOC inventories and mineral-associated SOC were more strongly expressed under the drier climate, where vegetation was sparser and soil erosion involved mineral grain size sorting.

Pick through the lentils, sorting out any rocks, bits of soil, or other debris as you run across them.

Differential heave associated with diurnal freeze thaw cycles is capable of sorting of the top 5 cm of soil.