Sentence examples for soil stock from inspiring English sources

To watch evolution in action, Dr. Barrett, who has a reputation for devising grand, slightly crazy experiments, dreamed up a project: construct eight enclosures, four on the light sand and four on the darker soil, stock them with an equal number of dark and light mice and watch what happens over time.

The fast-decomposing soil stock was initialized with 2.0 tC∙hand, and the slow-decomposing soil stock with 1.5 tC∙ha−1 (means in the climax stage of long-term simulations).

Those Harvey-Waroona soil stocks were long since gone and Maley's black-soil replacement looked OK to begin with (plenty of the vital clay component required) but was soon found to contain too much sodium.

The deadwood stock contained carbon originating from dead trees, whereas the two soil stocks contained carbon originating from the decomposition of deadwood.

At the ecosystem scale, N gas fluxes can deplete soil stocks of inorganic N, an essential and frequently limiting nutrient (Vitousek & Howarth 1991).

To quantify basic cations budgets and efficiencies, the inputs and outputs of calcium, magnesium, and potassium, as well as their initial and final exchangeable soil stocks were evaluated.

Reference values are derived from a curve of the response of the provision of the service to key soil stocks for a specified land use.

Stanford Professor Chaitan Khosla and his colleagues at Kosan believe they can use genetic engineering to literally sculpt a new antibiotic army from common soil, stocking it with medicines that disease-causing bacteria don't know how to conquer.

The soil separates into two different soil stocks in the different soil layers – one follows a rapid decay process and the other follows a slow decay process (Sato et al. 2007).

The parameters ( {t}_{S_{dead}to A} ), ( {t}_{S_{slow}to A} ) and ( {t}_{S_{fast}to A} ) ( left[raisebox{1ex}{$1$} left/ raisebox{-1ex raisebox{-1exright] ) denote the transition rates of carbon released from the respective soil stocks to the atmosphere.

Detecting these changes requires long-term observations of a wide range of ecosystem characteristics, including vegetation and soil stocks and precipitation and streamwater fluxes.