Sentence examples for upper and lower slopes from inspiring English sources

Experiments with tea as a plantation crop in the 1880s were immediately successful, and tea spread along the upper and lower slopes of the hill country.

The relationships of crown depth and width to relative tree height differed between trees on the upper and lower slopes, while the relationships of crown depth and width to actual tree height were similar.

The deposition of seismic units on the middle slope produced the present-day step-like profile of the margin composed of wide flat slope platforms and narrow and steep upper and lower slopes.

When we considered tree height relative to the maximum attainable height, the difference between the upper and lower slopes in the relationship of competitive position to tree height disappeared.

Therefore, a factorial field experiment in three replicates of a randomized complete block design was carried out in 2003 and 2004 with the factors being slope positions (upper and lower slopes), topsoil removal (0, 15 and 25 cm depths) and nutrient amendments (0, 10 t ha−1 poultry manure and 60 30 30 N:P2O5:K2O as NPK + urea).

Although the system has local topographical gradients in terms of nutrient, moisture availability and plant species, soil respiration responses to OTC treatments were similar on the upper and lower slopes, implying that local heterogeneity may not be important for scaling up the results.

The two-part flume used in the tests consisted of two slopes with the upper and lower slope (Figure 1).

The Latemar flat-topped high-relief platform has been subdivided into five different facies belts: inner and outermost platform, margin, upper and lower slope.

A significant difference in mean flow velocity occurred near the upper and lower slope boundaries of the field, while significant differences (P < 0.05) in runoff depth and effective shear stress were observed among different slope positions.

Nonetheless, both the upper and lower slope positions were productive with the application of poultry manure irrespective of topsoil removal, compared to NPK + urea, which was only effective without topsoil removal.

Hence, this study was set out to evaluate how Nitisols profiles occurring in upper and lower slope positions respond to different land use types in terms of their physical and chemical characteristics.