Sentences with phrase «desert soil»

A contrasting video, which shows rain falling on bare earth, shows how delicate desert soils without a protective layer can be washed away.

By sweeping the darker desert soil off the bright limestone underneath, ancient peoples created white lines that are easily visible at great distances.

Impact of disturbed desert soils on duration of mountain snow cover.

However, we know that there are still organisms that live in desert soils, such as microbes, lichens, ants, rodents and reptiles.

When the shock wave hits the ground in the video, it kicks up the dry desert soil and «it makes a nice little dust cloud,» Spriggs says.

Luske, Boki and van der Kamp, Joris (2009) Carbon sequestration potential of reclaimed desert soils in Egypt.

However, many ecosystems are neglected in conservation strategies simply because of the absence of larger organisms, for instance desert soil crusts, glaciers or unusual geological formations.

New York and San Francisco's bacterial diversity was virtually identical despite their nearly 4700 - kilometer divide, while Tucson's microbes were more variable and tended to be heavy on desert soil bacteria in addition to the human - derived species.

By replacing vegetative cover's moist soil, which contributes water vapor to the atmosphere to help generate rainfall, with bare, shiny desert soil that merely reflects sunlight directly back into space, the capacity for rainfall is diminished.

Root growth improvement of mesquite seedlings and bacterial rhizosphere and soil community changes are induced by inoculation with plant growth - promoting bacteria and promote restoration of eroded desert soil — Cristina Galaviz — Land Degradation and Development

Sprouting from dry Peruvian desert soil, hope for one day growing food on Mars is emerging in the form of a potato plant.

In «Temporal maps of a non sedimented land # 1,» Rocha Pitta causes desert soil in Argentina to spill over the edge of a cliff, much like sand in an hourglass.

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The disease is only acquired through inhalation of the spore in desert soil.

«The founding families seemed content to reflect the nature of their place, accepting and even embodying the notion that nothing could take root in the desert soil of L.A.,» Gross writes.

«We just drop her there and leave,» says Wettergreen, who describes Zoe as a giant fluorescence - imaging camera that searches the desert soil for microorganisms.

Bacterial colonies are known to help cement coastal dunes and desert soil, but up to now their role in building rock formations has been unknown.

To this end it carries out research in the fields of water resources and desert soils; animal and poultry production; ecology and dry land agriculture, as well as socioeconomic studies.

Grass is important here because it keeps the desert soils in place.

Desert soil has a living crust that is essential for fixing nitrogen, a critical plant nutrient, and for avoiding erosion that produces a swirl of itinerant dust.

Assisted migration The future doesn't look good for biocrust communities, and thus for the stability of desert soils, as we continue to careen toward a warmer climate.

The small plants grow in high - density clusters that form a protective cover over the desert soil.

The desert southwest (Arizona, N. Mexico, S. California) is the hotbed for coccidiodomycosis in the U.S. «Cocci» or «Valley Fever» is a fungus that lives in the desert soil and forms spores when released into the air.

Valley Fever is caused by a fungus that lives in the desert soil in the areas described above.

Valley Fever is caused by a fungus that lives in the desert soil.

Brown is the color of cookies, and sadness, and a hole in the desert soil where an airborne bomb has detonated.