Sentence examples for surrounding crops from inspiring English sources

The results were interpreted as indicative of advection effects from the surrounding crops.

The scientists have been keen to point out that the risk of pollen from their wheat reaching surrounding crops is vanishingly small because the crop is self-fertilising.

We applied cost distance modeling to investigate the relationship between the in-crop density of natural enemies and the structural connectivity of non-crop land uses surrounding crops within Australian cotton landscapes.

Notably, neither the federal law nor the state program calls for the removal of wildlife habitat surrounding crops, but private buyers, keen on retaining consumer confidence in their products, may still require growers to take steps that go beyond government regulations.

In order to avoid alien plant invasions of natural habitats and surrounding crops and to develop management practices to face this problem, it is not only essential to understand which traits favour the success of alien plants in irrigated crops and floodplains, but also whether a flow of species between these two habitats actually exists.

But GM detractors claim the technology is untested and could lead to problems down the track, including detrimental effects to health, and the contamination of surrounding crops.

Pollination was more affected by local factors than landscape factors, although pollination success was improved by a smaller proportions of surrounding crop fields.

The belts of trees used an estimated 150 mm more water than was received through rainfall, approximately 30 mm from the surrounding crop and the remainder from groundwater.

At Drayton, changes in surrounding crop cover, with the introduction of willow coppice and reduced area of arable land and agricultural inputs, considerably influenced ground beetle activity/density and assemblages in non-crop habitat.

Rats fed either genetically engineered corn or the herbicide Roundup had an increased risk of developing tumors, suffering organ damage and dying prematurely, according to a new study that was immediately swept up into the furor surrounding crop biotechnology when it was released Wednesday.

Thus, growers who intend to minimize gene flow from surrounding crop varieties commonly do so by increasing the spacing between fields [1].