Sentences with phrase «alter soil conditions»

Subsidence is caused by soil shrinkage and movement, and is increasingly becoming a risk to property owners due to cracks in the earth caused by prolonged dry spells which alter soil conditions.

While the study — «The hidden risks of climate change: An increase in property damage from drought and soil subsidence in Europe» — doesn't cite overall climate change as a direct cause for the increase in soil subsidence, it describes a strong link to the condition that will «magnify these risks as factors such as rising average temperatures and more erratic rainfall continue to alter soil conditions.»

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«We hypothesized that soil amendment using lignite - derived humic substances would alter plant gas exchange, root growth and soil microbial activity, which in turn might mitigate potential crop losses under water - stress conditions,» he said.

Soils grouped into one map unit will have a great deal of variation in reality, and land use practices will alter soil characteristics from their originally mapped condition (USDA NRCS, Soil Survey Division Staff [1993]-Rsoil characteristics from their originally mapped condition (USDA NRCS, Soil Survey Division Staff [1993]-RSoil Survey Division Staff [1993]-RRB-.