Sentences with phrase «affect soil quality»

UBC biologists are digging under vineyards to see if the Okanagan's grape industry is affecting soil quality.

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It diminishes soil productivity, reduces food production, deprives the land of its vegetative cover, and negatively impacts areas not directly affected by its symptoms, by causing floods, soil salinization, deterioration of water quality, and silting of rivers, streams and reservoirs109.

These bacterial beings have been around since the origin of life and still are running the soil and the air and affecting water quality.

The types of rock below the soil can affect the quality of food grown there.

Soil composition, moisture, hours of exposure to sunlight — even the way that the leaves drape over the fruit — all affect the overall quality and taste of the final product, wine.

Fulbright scholar Muthiah Muruganandam, left, a senior scientist at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, and fisheries biologist Steven Chipps, leader of the U.S. Geological Survey, South Dakota Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, will examine how land - use changes affect water quality and fisheries resources in northeastern South Dakota lakes.

All soils clean and capture water, affecting both water quality and quantity.

Excessive salinity in soil and irrigation water, in combination with waterlogging, can significantly affect the growth and quality for agricultural crops, especially those vegetables that are sensitive to salinity.

Research showed that wet conditions (as indicated for the cultivars under test) reduced annual yield of sweet cherry, strongly affecting fruit quality, and often overriding cultivar and soil and water management effects.

This succulent has also been shown to improve the body's absorption of vitamin E and vitamin C. Given that our diminishing soil quality is now affecting the nutrient content of our produce, plants that increase our absorption of these harder - to - come - by health - giving compounds really do earn the title «superfood.»

Zinc deficiency is increasingly common due to mainstream diets void of adequate fruits and vegetables, and soil depletion affecting the nutritional quality of the produce that we do eat.

Thus, the soil quality and productivity of agricultural land are affected.

The repeated fires modify ecosystem structure, penetrate ever deeper into forest margins, affect large areas of understory vegetation (which is not detected by remote sensing), and take an ever greater cumulative toil on soil quality and its ability to sequester carbon.