Sentences with phrase «of bare soil»

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

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

The cause of «fairy circles,» the name given to bare patches of soil that seem to form randomly across African grasslands, continues to baffle scientists.

Cally's succulent linocut has also been paired with a planted succulent to give the viewer a clear reference point, and even a small detail like using pebbles on the surface of the planter rather than bare soil has been considered.

To learn more about the field performance, durability, and decomposition properties of biofabric, the researchers designed experiments to compare four experimental spunbond, nonwoven biofabrics with two commercially available bioplastic mulch films and a bare soil control.

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.

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 soil.

Gentine's team is the first to isolate the response of vegetation from the global warming total complex response, which includes such variables for the water cycle as evapotranspiration (the water evaporated from the surface, both from plants and bare soil) soil moisture, and runoff.

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.

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.

While doing so, be bare - foot on grass, soil, or stone, or rest your palms on the trunks of trees.

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.

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.

Parsley: Growing parsley around pepper plants not only helps you get a second edible from almost the same amount of space, but also serves to provide some shade and cover for bare soil.

Even grass - fed beef «depletes native biodiversity, increases invasive exotics, diverts water, fouls streams, and bares the soil,» according to Mary O'Brien, director of the Utah Forests Program.

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