Sentence examples for soils supporting from inspiring English sources

Adjacent to this zone is the Darling Downs, with heavy basaltic and alluvial soils supporting one of Australia's most productive agricultural regions; its specialties are wheat, sorghum, corn (maize), cotton, oilseeds, and cattle.

At the mesohabitat scale, a multiple regression procedure showed that seed viability was positively associated with relatively undisturbed soils supporting tussock grasslands (38.7% of variance) and negatively associated with soil erosion (18.8% of the variance).

Both sites are moderately sloping (1 2%) with organic soils supporting tussock peatland interspersed with black spruce muskeg.

Over a 2 km straight-line distance, the trail crosses eight distinct soil-vegetation patches (Fig.  3); 35% of the length consisted of mineral soils supporting primarily white spruce forest, spike-rush meadows, or mixed grass-shrub meadows and the other 65% consisted of organic soils supporting black spruce muskeg, sedge fen, or tussocks-scrub bog.

Glacially deposited sandy soils supported rose pink and sweet everlasting.

Terre rouge soils support a number of sclerophyllic (drought-resistant) shrubs with spectacularly coloured flowers.

In the north, limestone soils support deciduous forests, and sapodilla and mahogany predominate.

Samoa's volcanic soils support lush vegetation but are easily eroded by runoff.

Deep and strongly acidic, these lateritic soils support primarily grazing and pastoral activities or swidden agriculture.

The poor soils support restricted mixed farming, including the raising of sheep.

Red soils support a dense canopy of short, broad-leaved trees crowned by stands of Mulanje cedar (Widdringtonia whytei) at its northernmost occurrence in Africa.