Sentence examples for transformation of soil from inspiring English sources

"People need to realize how powerful the transformation of soil can be," he said, with a hint of evangelism.

Changes in land use can have significant impacts on soil characteristics, microbial properties and the transformation of soil organic matter, total nitrogen and associated nutrients, including phosphorus (P).

The transformation of soil from a plastic state to a viscous liquid state is primarily caused by a change in the water content of the soil mass.

Furthermore, interactions between the rhizosphere and earthworms stimulated transformation of soil P and guano P; the proportional importance of soil microbial biomass P, organic-P and more soluble P fractions were substantially modified.

This paper focuses on analysing tillage as a mechanism for the transformation of soil spatial variability, soil morphology, superficial soil properties and development of soil landscape relationships in agricultural lands.

Our results support the hypothesis and indicate that management decisions including reducing tillage and increasing organic C inputs can enhance transformation of soil organic C from the labile into stable pools, promote soil C accumulation, improve soil fertility and while mitigate atmospheric CO2 rise.

The strongest anthropogenic transformation of soils and landscapes in the region coincided with drastic changes in climatic conditions at the turn of Subboreal to Subatlantic periods.

Moreover, transformations of soil erosion types from 1958 to 1975, 1975 to 1982, and 1982 to 2000 were also calculated using the CROSSTAB module in IDRISI software.

For example, the activity of phosphatase is related to many physiological and biochemical processes of cell and can be used to reflect the transformation status of soil organic phosphorus (Xie et al. 2013).

The approach used does not take into account the effect of applied N on the transformation of native soil N, or the difference in soil N exploitation as determined by the increased size of the root system of the fertilized crops.

Thus, assessing land use induced changes on soil properties and subsequent implication on soil fertility status is essential for understanding the influence of agro-ecosystem transformation on soil productivity and to indicate appropriate and sustainable soil and land management options.