Sentences with phrase «arid soil»

The colonial town of York, set in the lush Avon Valley, tiny wheatlands townships and other strange rocks protruding from arid soil show the real Australia, ever waiting for life giving rains.

Namaqualand is famous for the exquisite wild flowers that burst from its arid soil during spring.

So, we too are sending our spindly roots into this arid soil and slowly we are creating love in a climate of hate.

In Africa, thedesert locust's eggs can lie dormant in arid soil for several yearsuntil rain triggers their hatching.

Genetic modification may enable some plants to grow in more saline or arid soils, which is useful, but in terms of feeding the world, GM is irrelevant.

Not exact matches

The schinus species of trees grow prolifically in arid, well - drained soils in almost any temperate area of the world, hence their popularity as a shade and decorative tree in many parts of Australia.

Maca (Lepidium meyenii) is a finicky root, similar to a turnip or radish, that only grows well in the cold, arid climates of high mountain plateaus, and in soil that is inhospitable to most other crops.

Thrives in clay, limestone, gravelly soils, Merlot grows best in warm, hot arid regions in Alexander Valley.

Joining Ale on the publication were lead author Pradip Adhikari, Ale's former postdoctoral student now at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma; Nina Omani, postdoctoral research associate, and Dr. Paul DeLaune, environmental soil scientist, both with AgriLife Research at Vernon; and collaborators from the Arid Land Agricultural Research Center in Maricopa, Arizona; Cotton Incorporated in Cary, North Carolina; and the University of Florida in Gainesville.

The few young soils, the volcanic ones, are very porous and occur most often in arid and semi-arid regions.

These dark, crusty soils span the arid Colorado Plateau in the Four Corners region.

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science in Japan have shown that torrefied biomass can improve the quality of poor soil found in arid regions.

In order to characterize the biological properties of soil treated with biochar, the team incorporated torrefied plant residual biomass from the biodiesel crop Jatropha curcas into aridisol, a type of soil found in arid regions such as Botswana, and compared several soil properties with samples that had not been treated.

Various salt compounds found deep in the soil of New Mexico's desert may be the key to understanding how crops were cultivated in ancient Chaco Canyon — despite the backdrop of what seems an otherwise arid and desolate landscape, according to a University of Cincinnati study.

In many of the areas previously studied elsewhere in the world, some of them relatively arid, erosion sweeps away soil quickly — there, as a general rule, the steeper the slopes, the less time soil sticks around.

Luis Marone of the Argentine Arid Zones Research Institute (IADIZA - CONICET) and his colleagues collected soil samples at grazed and ungrazed sites in Argentina's Monte Desert to assess the composition of the seed bank in each area, finding fewer of the large grass seeds that birds prefer in the grazed areas.

Continuously monitoring plant «water stress» is particularly critical in arid regions and traditionally has been done by measuring soil moisture content or developing evapotranspiration models that calculate the sum of ground surface evaporation and plant transpiration.

Did we mention Moringa trees thrive in arid climates with little water and restore essential nutrients back to the soil to help other crops around them grow better, mitigating risk to farmers?

John's initially passive observations blur into a frenetic, subjective tailspin of delusions and inebriated anxiety; his pretty - boy appearance grows grimy, his white clothes assume the soiled hue of flypaper yellow, and arid grit gets plastered to every surface, caked on every sweaty face.

The mold form of coccidioidomycosis exist in an arid climate, with alkaline soil, hot summers and low annual rainfall.

This disease occurs primarily in the desert areas of the southwestern United States and needs a warm arid climate with alkaline soil to survive.

The Oceânico O'Connor Golf Course, perfectly complements the Faldo Course, whilst taking advantage of the rich valley soil, in contrast to the arid hillside, this course offers no less of a challenge, requiring accurate play.

In Guanajuato, you can visit the family home of the artist Diego Rivera which is now a museum, as well as one of the creepiest attractions of Mexico, the Guanajuato mummy museum where you can see bodies that were disinterred from the local cemetery and found to have mummified due to the arid climate and soil... MORE conditions.

In Savory's defense, much of his argument for his grazing method is specifically that it promotes retention of seasonal moisture in soils in arid grasslands.

(2017) Influence of biowastes compost amendment on soil organic carbon storage under arid climate.

It was first cited 140 years ago when a pioneer geologist and surveyor identified a divide running from north to south between land that received ample rainfall, and soils in the so - called rain - shadow of the Rockies that could be classed as arid.

Warmer temperatures evaporate critically important snowpack, convert snow to rain, and dry out soils, which increases the frequency and severity of arid conditions in California.

The exported moisture makes its way to the African Sahel, where it soaks the arid land and gradually builds up soil moisture over the course of three months.

It also grows well in slightly arid areas with well - drained soil.

Further, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) defines land degradation as a reduction or loss in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid areas of the biological or economic productivity and complexity of rain - fed cropland, irrigated cropland, or range, pasture, forest and woodlands resulting from land uses or from a process or combination of processes, including those arising from human activities and habitation patterns, such as: (i) soil erosion caused by wind and / or water; (ii) deterioration of the physical, chemical, and biological or economic properties of soil; and (iii) long - term loss of natural vegetation.

The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification defines land degradation as a reduction or loss in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid areas, of the biological or economic productivity and complexity of rain - fed cropland, irrigated cropland, or range, pasture, forest, and woodlands resulting from land uses or from a process or combination of processes, including processes arising from human activities and habitation patterns, such as (i) soil erosion caused by wind and / or water; (ii) deterioration of the physical, chemical and biological or economic properties of soil; and (iii) long - term loss of natural vegetation.

As Wired points out, «The researchers also found that so - called biological soil crusts, a little - studied layer of lichen and bacteria found in arid western regions, play a surprisingly large role in preventing erosion.

This increased water use efficiency of C4 grasses means that soil moisture is conserved, allowing them to grow for longer in arid environments.