Sentence examples for structuring soil from inspiring English sources

Glomalin is a recently discovered glypoproteinaceous substance produced by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) that plays an important role in structuring soil.

Here we directly examined fungal composition in airborne wind currents and soil fungal communities across a 40 000 km2 regional landscape to determine if dispersal limitation or abiotic factors were structuring soil fungal communities.

When compared to the microbial communities from 54 previously-analyzed surface soils collected across a wide range of biome types, we found that there was as much variation within individual soil pits as across surface soils from different biomes, emphasizing the importance of soil depth as an environmental gradient structuring soil microbial communities.

This paper examines the drained bearing response of circular footings resting on structured soil deposits.

In both S and B fractions, the Enterobacteriaceae disappeared, while the spore-forming bacteria (Firmicutes and Actinobacteria), typical of poorly structured soil, increased in incidence reaching 98% in the bulk soil in Egypt, 91% in Italy, and 31% in Tunisia).

As would be expected if trait conservatism from associated plants persists in the soil, tree species that had similar functional traits tended to have more similarly structured soil arthropod communities (r = 0.58, P = 0.03, Fig. 1, Table 2).

Thus, the influence of soil structure (bonding and fabric) on the mechanical properties of structured soils cannot be correctly described.

This paper presents a new formulation to account for the effect of structure on the mechanical behaviour for structured soils.

Model comparison studies demonstrated that, after calibration, PF pesticide models clearly outperform chromatographic models for structured soils.

Due to similarity in behaviour of lime treated soils and naturally structured soils, the formulation can be applied to both types of soil.

It also requires an array of field techniques for measuring forest structure, soil chemistry, and climatic conditions, for example.