Sentence examples for sparse soil from inspiring English sources

Although a number of the larger islands, such as Lesbos, Chios, Rhodes, and Crete, have fertile, well-cultivated plains, most of them are rocky and quite barren, with terraces to conserve the sparse soil.

Combining the sparse soil material data with the dense cone index and landform element data resulted in soil material information covering the entire study area.

Major grassland areas can be found in the region of the Black Forest and the Swabian Alb where agricultural land use is difficult due to sparse soils, slopes, temperature and high precipitation.

Prior calibration was performed by using sparse and sporadic soil moisture values measured by portable time domain reflectometry devices.

Uncertainties regarding the fate of SOC are greater in high-latitude systems where data are sparse and the soils are affected by sub-zero temperatures.

In this area, crisscrossing gullies and sparse vegetation on loose soil are mostly unprotected against heavy rain, which leads to severe erosion and delivers soil and water into the gullies.

Good soil is sparse at higher altitudes in the Atlas region.

Stoneless surface soil is sparse; it is suitable for extensive cultivation mainly in the Hanga Roa and Mataveri area in the southwest, at Vaihu and on the plain southwest of the volcano Rano Raraku, and on the prehistorically cleared Poike peninsula in the eastern corner of the island.

They are large, almost perfectly circular patches of barren soil in sparse grassland.

Due to dry climate condition, thick porous soil layer, sparse vegetation coverage and high-intensity rain storm, the Gushan River is short of water resources and heavy in soil erosion.

This area is a desert with sandy soil and sparse vegetation, primarily black saxaul (Haloxylon aphyllum), white saxaul (H. persicum), a number of grasses (especially Anabasis ramosissima and Ceratocarpus turkestanicus), and sandy sedge (Carex physodes).