Sentence examples for the effect of amendments from inspiring English sources

A greenhouse study was carried out to investigate the effect of amendments on heavy metal leaching and phytoavailability.

Soil samples from a historic copper mine tailing site at the Parys Mountain, North Wales (UK) were amended with green waste compost (GC), GC+30% sewage sludge (GCS), lime and diammonium phosphate (DAP), to determine the effect of amendments on DTPA -and Ca(NO3 2-extractable metals iNO3 2-extractableg and on the phytoavailability of heavy metals by a lettuce (Lactuca satina L).

The effect of amendment addition on the mobility of two model pesticides, thiacloprid and fenarimol, was assessed using soil columns under non-equilibrium conditions.

At the end of the incubation, the effects of amendments on the assessed variables as well as the process modelling were evaluated by Response Surface Methodology (RS M.

Thus, implementing a phytoremediation strategy on contaminated soils requires a serious evaluation of the effects of amendments on metal phytoavailability [19].

Therefore, ryegrass (Lolium perenne L). was planted in a limed soil from the mining area of Riotinto (SW Spain), using an indoor pot experiment and the effects of amendment with sewage sludge, as well as irrigation with urban wastewater on plant uptake of the insecticide thiacloprid and the fungicide fenarimol were examined.

Specific objectives were to (a) determine if the physical and chemical changes in the amended soils produce nematicidal effects, (b) determine the effects of the amendments on fungal and bacterial activity, and (c) determine the effect of the amendments on carrot yield.

We studied the effect of organic amendments applied to saline soils on N2O emissions and on N2 to N2O N ratios.

The effect of various amendments and months was significant for soil inorganic-N (NH4+ and NO3−) concentrations, soil moisture (SM) content, N-mineralization and nitrification rates.

In this study we investigated the effect of organic amendments (buffalo manure, compost and vermicompost) and biochar (applied alone or with vermicompost) on plant yield, soil fertility, soil erosion and water dynamics in a degraded Acrisol in Vietnam.

Few studies have considered the effect of organic amendments on soil microbial activity and its contributions to hydraulic conductivity under field conditions in semiarid region soils with different textures and degrees of aggregate stability.