Sentences with phrase «bare soil in»

WHODUNIT Called fairy circles, the mysterious patches of bare soil in the Namib Desert may form thanks to a mix of fighting termites and competing plants, scientists propose.

Not exact matches

On so - called rafts (repurposed polystyrene insulation panels) floating in the tubs, basil, bok choy and lettuce plants grow hydroponically — that is, without soil — their bare roots dangling through holes in the rafts to draw nutrients directly from the water below.

Marketable yield of cucumber trended highest in the most durable and opaque biofabric, but was not significantly different from weed - free bare soil.

It took Asner and his team eight years to develop a technique that can detect and quantify selective logging by analyzing each pixel in the image for spectral data — which contains information about the extent of vegetation in the forest canopy, the amount of debris on the forest floor and how much bare soil is exposed — while also taking into consideration climate conditions.

New research explores the source of unexpectedly high nitrous oxide emissions from such bare peat soils in Arctic tundra.

Tens of thousands of the formations — bare patches of soil, 2 to 12 meters in diameter — freckle grasslands from southern Angola to northern South Africa, their perimeters often marked by a tall fringe of grass.

Cover crops are grown in the months between main crops when the soil would otherwise be bare.

In places where the ground is bare — from overgrazing or from the common practice of leaving fields unplanted for part of the year — photosynthesis stops, and so does the storage of carbon in the soiIn places where the ground is bare — from overgrazing or from the common practice of leaving fields unplanted for part of the year — photosynthesis stops, and so does the storage of carbon in the soiin the soil.

This is ponding water after rainfall in wheel tracks of the bare soil treatment one year after compaction.

«If the litter layer is gone, and the soil is bare and clumpy, the earthworms may help weedy plants come in along with other invasive plants that we don't want.»

In Namibia of southwestern Africa, the sparse grasslands that develop on deep sandy soils under rainfall between 50 and 100 mm per annum are punctuated by thousands of quasi-circular bare spots, usually surrounded by a ring of taller grass.

33 Lack of exposure of bare skin to sunshine is not the only biological consequence of modern life for which we must compensate; we must also return to the nutrient - rich foods on which our ancestors thrived and of which modernity has disposed: the fats and organs of animals raised on the pasture of mineral - rich soil, foods preserved by traditional fermentation rather than modern refrigeration, and the mineral - rich gifts of the oceans in which life originated.

b12 can be obtained from a healthy soil, in other words live outside in nature and walk on bare feet and eat the stuff that grows there.

This self sustaining type of agriculture aims to restore our soils to health, In the mean time, most of us are eating as best we can however the majority of people fail to eat even the bare minimum required fruit and vegetable servings.

One of his most iconic action performances, I Like America and America Likes Me, found Beuys spending three days in a bare room at Rene Block Gallery with an allegedly wild coyote — after landing in America and being whisked strait back overseas via ambulance, he never touched American soil.

These insects will enter your compost bin from the soil in your garden; therefore it is recommended that your composting bin is situated on bare soil.

More water is held in covered soil than bare.

And they found that the highest post-thaw emissions of nitrous oxide came from the bare peat soils: these emissions were fivefold those from still - frozen soils and matched the kind of outgassing observed in tropical soils, which are the world's largest natural land - based nitrous oxide source.

Soil moisture in ERA5 also benefits from other documented changes, including enhanced evaporation over bare soil, the introduction of seasonality for vegetation and a new snow hydrolSoil moisture in ERA5 also benefits from other documented changes, including enhanced evaporation over bare soil, the introduction of seasonality for vegetation and a new snow hydrolsoil, the introduction of seasonality for vegetation and a new snow hydrology.

In general, trees are darker than grasses, which are darker than bare soil.

Normal cropping, even organic cropping, turns the soil over and lays it bare in the process of planting the grain.

Our bare surface soil has gotten wet, frozen, cracked and expanded into a froth, letting weed seeds in and leaving us subject to dust storms.