Sentences with phrase «builds organic matter»

Stores carbon in soil and plant biomass by building organic matter, encouraging agro-forestry and forbidding the clearance of primary ecosystems.

Not exact matches

As plants build up organic matter, soil animals feed on them and their debris, whilst microbes decompose the complex organic compounds to their mineral components and to carbon dioxide.

Sandy soils dry out quickly, slowing down the decomposition process, ferralitic soils on the other hand are generally not very fertile, but they encourage fast decomposition and the building - up of stable organic matter.

The study builds this bridge by tracing how litter becomes soil organic matter over a decade.

«You're building up organic matter and sequestering carbon.»

The organic matter in bone, such as collagen, is built up by the body in the weeks after the implant.

3 By making mathematical models of the carbon cycle in order to understand how oxygen — critical for large, complex organisms — was able to build up in the atmosphere because of changes in how organic matter decays;

They do this when they emphasize practices that build soil organic matter.

We can readily see why forage - based livestock agriculture and perennial polycultures are the most efficient method of building soil organic matter and stable humic substances.

``... forage - based livestock agriculture and perennial polycultures are the most efficient method of building soil organic matter and stable humic substances.»!!!

· 16 percent of the surveyed households have introduced improved soil management techniques such as terracing, building ridges or other techniques that reduce water and soil organic matter losses

Organic agriculture (OA) has a significant potential contribution in this respect: practices that are commonly used on organic farms (use of organ - ic fertilizers, fertility building leys with legumes and cover crops) further the production of soil or - ganic matter (Smith et al., 2008; Leifeld and Fuhrer, 2010, Chirinda et al. 2010a).

We've heard that a director at the Department of Agriculture advised her team that carbon - sequestration and greenhouse - gas reduction should instead be described as «building soil organic matter» and «increasing nutrient use efficiency.»

All those trees and residue in North Carolina are counted as carbon emissions produced by the United States, with the assumption — built into IPCC accounting models — that the organic matter would eventually die, rot and decompose there anyway, thus releasing its stored carbon.

By building raised beds which are NEVER walked on, heavily mulched and fed by top dressings of large amounts of organic matter, proponents of no - dig gardening say it protects vital soil life including worms, microbes and mychorrizal fungi which all play a part in maintaining soil fertility.