Sentences with phrase «increased soil water»

These interventions helped to increase soil water retention and organic matter content and help prevent the little topsoil there was from draining off to the lowlands.

The former to enhance productivity in a hungry world, increase soil water holding capacity, improve drought resilience, mitigate flooding and conserve biodiversity.

Although these hydrological changes could potentially increase soil water availability in previously snow - covered regions during the cool low - ET season (34), this effect would likely be outweighed by the influence of warming temperatures (and decreased runoff) during the warm high - ET season (36, 38), as well as by the increasing occurrence of consecutive years with low precipitation and high temperature (Fig. 4A).

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Using a wide array of data from sensors in the soil along with satellite imagery and weather forecasts, the company designed a «personalized» irrigation system for each block of vines, greatly reducing water consumption and increasing output.

Increased industrial production at the expense of depleted and poisoned air, soil, and water can not count as progress.

It also improves the soil structure, or tilth, and increases its ability to hold both water and nutrients.

The question of what are the limits to the use of these resources became a critical one, while the whole time industry increased pollution of the atmosphere, the soils and waters of the Earth.

Our research focuses on biologically - based mechanisms to reduce pest issues, soil erosion, fossil fuel use, and greenhouse gas emissions; increase nutrient and water use efficiencies; improve pollinator activity and food security; and apply a systems approach to soil, crop, animal, human and planetary health.

Addition of organic matter to the soil increases its water holding capacity mainly because organic matter increases soil macroaggregates, hence the number of micropores and macropores in the soil (Bot and Benites, 2005).

Hudson (1994) showed that «for each 1 % increase in SOM, the available water holding capacity in the soil increased by 3.7 %».

As part of the CSO panel we advocated for organic agriculture as a means of farming that increases the resilience of soils to both water stress and nutrient loss and which contributes to combating desertification by preventing soil erosion and land degradation.

There are several reasons you may want to choose organic, among them being improved water quality, energy conservation, increased biodiversity, and soil health.

In turn, nutrient and energy cycling is increased and the retentive abilities of the soil for nutrients and water are enhanced, compensating for the non-use of mineral fertilizers.

Generally, organic soil management techniques such as organic fertilization, mulching and cover cropping improve soil structure and therefore increase the soil's water infiltration and retention capacity, substantially reducing the risk of erosion.

Soil life is enormously enhanced, and water retention capacity is increased.

This increases nutrient and energy cycles and improves the soil's nutrient and water retention ability.

Hotter water can help to release soil by increasing the cleaning action and chemical reactions.

Increased community development funding is included for Erie County Soil and Water Conservation and the Cooperative Extension along with continued funding for the important healthcare and community work conducted for Buffalo's refugee population by Jericho Road Community Health Center.

In the Southern Tier; Chenango County Soil and Water Conservation District was awarded $ 77,255 to work with 6 farms to implement cover crops, which are planted to improve soil quality, reduce erosion, and to increase soil organic matter to improve resiliency during periods of flood and drouSoil and Water Conservation District was awarded $ 77,255 to work with 6 farms to implement cover crops, which are planted to improve soil quality, reduce erosion, and to increase soil organic matter to improve resiliency during periods of flood and drousoil quality, reduce erosion, and to increase soil organic matter to improve resiliency during periods of flood and drousoil organic matter to improve resiliency during periods of flood and drought.

Their popularity has caused an increase in environmental levels of antimicrobial substances, such as triclocarban (TCC), which end up in the water and soil used to grow crops.

The analysis also showed that elevated carbon dioxide significantly enhanced soil water levels in drylands more so than it did in non-drylands, with soil water content increasing by 9 percent in non-drylands compared to 17 percent in drylands, Wang said.

But, Levy says, in recent years there has been an increasing appreciation for salts and how they might create intragranular films of water: Instead of the deep briny lakes or aquifers one might find on Earth, scientists are now looking to «small pockets of briny soils that resist freezing and are chockablock with nutrients.»

The researchers believe the greening is a response to higher atmospheric carbon dioxide inducing decreases in plant stomatal conductance — the measure of the rate of passage of carbon dioxide entering, or water vapor exiting, through the stomata of a leaf — and increases in soil water, thus enhancing vegetation growth.

Increased temperatures trigger more evaporation from reservoirs, and accelerate water loss from soils needed for agricultural production — all factors that boost demand for water, he added.

Finally, the negative water pressure that occurs in the roots will result in an increase of water uptake from the soil.

Water loss increases as temperatures rise because plants use more water, and higher temperatures increase evaporative loss from the soil and from the water surface and lengthen the growing seWater loss increases as temperatures rise because plants use more water, and higher temperatures increase evaporative loss from the soil and from the water surface and lengthen the growing sewater, and higher temperatures increase evaporative loss from the soil and from the water surface and lengthen the growing sewater surface and lengthen the growing season.

«Increased water availability from climate change may release more nutrients into soil in Antarctica: Increases in phosphorus load in soil and aquatic ecosystems may allow for more abundant life.»

Air quality is of increasing concern to China's stability - obsessed leaders, anxious to douse potential unrest as a more affluent, urban population turns against a growth - at - all - costs economic model that has besmirched much of the country's air, water and soil.

While 50 years of inorganic fertilization did increase soil organic carbon stocks in a long - term experiment in western Kansas, the practice seemingly failed to enhance soil aggregate stability — a key indicator of soil structural quality that helps dictate how water moves through soil and soil's resistance to erosion.

Recently, the UD team found that when rice plants are subjected to multiple threats — including increasing concentrations of poisonous arsenic in water and soil, an urgent concern in Southeast Asia, plus a fungal disease called rice blast — the plants aren't necessarily goners.

Control experiments have shown that water held in the zeolite increases the moisture content of soil in desert conditions.

Warmer water coupled with the increased nutrients from permafrost and soil runoff could bolster aquatic life.

Urbanization increases surface runoff, by creating more impervious surfaces such as pavement and buildings do not allow percolation of the water down through the soil to the aquifer.

Published in Scientific Reports, the study showed that adding torrefied biomass to poor soil from Botswana increased water retention in the soil as well as — the amount of plant growth.

A new study shows that the increase in wildfires may double soil erosion in some western U.S. states by 2050, and all that dirt ends up in streams, clogging creeks and degrading water quality.

Tests showed that water retention increased with the percentage of torrefied biomass, with 5 % biomass yielding a soil that contained about 5 % more water than the control soil.

Results showed that total applied water decreased with an increase in the targeted soil water tension.

«In severe drought conditions, which are expected to increase with climate change, organic farms have the potential to produce high yields because of the higher water - holding capacity of organically farmed soils,» Reganold said.

Farmers here have reported environmental problems, such as floods, droughts, reductions in water quality and increases in soil erosion and downstream sedimentation of irrigation networks.

Adding moderate amounts increases crop yields and stabilizes soils while reducing the need to throw huge quantities in landfills or holding ponds, said Yuncong Li, University of Florida professor of soil and water sciences.

Fly ash mixtures provide phosphorus, calcium and other nutrients that crops need to grow while increasing soils» capacity to hold water, said Li.

The apparent rise in evapotranspiration — the process by which water is transferred from the land to the atmosphere by evaporation from plants and soil — is increasing potential drought risk with rising temperature trends, especially during periodic drought cycles that have been linked with strong El Nino events.

Air quality in cities is of increasing concern to China's stability - obsessed leaders, anxious to douse potential unrest as more affluent citizens turn against a growth - at - all - costs economic model that has polluted much of the country's air, water and soil.

In the activities of their daily lives, ants help increase air, water flow, and organic matter in soil.

They found that evaporation of water from the soil surface significantly decreased with increasing aggregate mulch thickness.

Those heavier raindrops also compact the soil, causing it to absorb less water and increasing runoff and sediment, which clog rivers and contribute significantly to lowland flooding.

Air quality in cities is of increasing concern to China's stability - obsessed leaders, anxious to douse potential unrest as a more affluent urban population turns against a growth - at - all - costs economic model that has besmirched much of the country's air, water and soil.

«The removal of vegetal cover through burning would likely increase water runoff when it rains, potentially reducing their water retention capacity and invariably the soil moisture,» Ichoku said.

However, in many of the same places, actual evapotranspiration inferred from surface water balance exhibits an increase in association with enhanced soil wetness from increased precipitation, as the actual evapotranspiration becomes closer to the potential evaporation measured by the pans.

Dr. Jerison studies systems governed by simple rules that nonetheless exhibit complex behaviors, such as phase transitions — for instance, when a slight temperature increase causes ice to melt into liquid water; and threshold phenomena — for instance, when a small extra deposit of soil causes a stable slope to topple over into a landslide.