Sentences with phrase «of drier soils»

Additionally, extremely high temperatures can lead directly to increased water stress because of drier soils.

For irrigation, shares were apportioned according to crude 19th - century notions of how much water was needed to get 40 acres of dry soil to produce a crop.

As noted earlier, the thermal conductivity of dry soils tends to increase as their texture becomes increasingly fine.

The heat capacity of dry soil is about 0.20 BTU per pound per ºF of temperature change, which is only one - fifth the heat capacity of water.

Not exact matches

These rare and precious truths are scattered and just under the surface of the dry and barren soils of lack.

Another cause of drying is evaporation from the top of the soil, which can be controlled with a mulch of grass clippings — but then it's hard to see how wet the soil is.

Densely plant a bunch of dried peas or seeds in potting soil in any container with drainage, put in a sunny spot, water and wait.

«The small red peppers or chillies are largely grown in the more dry and rocky part of the island, where the upheaved coral presents a honeycombed surface that favours the accumulation of rich soil in the crevices.

Just the right amount of sunshine, just the right amount of rain, just the right amount of nutrients in the soil and if you carefully combine that with a lot of love and Aloha you might just plant, grow, hand - pick, remove pulp, ferment, dry and roast the best Kona.

Unlike rice and wheat that require many inputs in terms of soil fertility and water, millets grow well in dry regions as rainfed crops.

In the case of rice, SRI means planting out fewer, and younger, seedlings, in drier soil, and with regular weeding to aerate the roots.

The soil should be kept damp for the duration of the solarization because hot, damp soil will kill more resting fungal spores than dry soil.

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.

With mornings shrouded in fog during the summer months, this Dry Creek Valley ranch's diverse soils consist primarily of a gravelly loam called Cortina.

Agricultural management impacts on soil organic carbon storage under moist and dry climatic conditions of temperate and tropical regions.

But Bordeaux's soil is shallow and gravelly which drains well and keeps the vines dry during the crucial final weeks of ripening.

Additionally, American Academy of Pediatrics defines constipation in children as large, hard and dry stools that are associated with pain and soiling or presence of blood.

Diaper need is the struggle to provide a sufficient number of clean, dry diapers to ensure that each diaper - wearing person can be changed out of wet or soiled diapers as often as necessary.

Just store the soiled diaper — after disposing of any excess waste with a diaper liner or diaper sprayer in a dry / wet pail until you're ready to wash, typically every 2 - 3 days.

Then when it's time to wash the diapers, instead of having to tip a huge, heavy pail filled with stinking liquid into the washer, all you do is dump the dry, soiled diapers into the washer and put it through the initial soak cycle in there.

Clues of readiness include understanding verbal directions, a dislike of being in soiled diapers and the ability to to remain dry for at least two hours at a time.

Care of disposable diapers is minimal, and primarily consists of keeping them in a dry place before use, with proper disposal in a garbage receptacle upon soiling.

In which case, you can leave a nylon diaper tote on the top of the dryer to serve as a short - term DRY PAIL for other soiled diapers while you are doing the family's laundry.

When baby soils his / her diaper, the poop hits the stay dry diaper doubler instead of the cloth diaper beneath.

In developing societies, masses of people are dirt poor — literally, as Brand saw in the Kenyan dump, grubbing in muck for pennies, others breaking their back tilling dry soil, dying early.

Stabilization of the embankments is being accomplished largely through a process called dry soil mixing.

But changes in land use — draining the water to plant acres of crops that demand drier soil, a common practice in tropical regions, or building a road through an area — can dry out the peat.

To make room for oil palm plantations and other crops, companies will raze existing trees (the source of future peat) and drain the water to dry out the soil.

According to Greg Okin, a professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles, «Climate models predict that the Southwest should get warmer and drier, and that by 2050 soil moisture could be lower than the US Dust Bowl Era.»

It can grow in poor soil as well as in dry climates, says agronomist David Bransby of Auburn University, so it requires little fertilizer and water and can grow in places that are not now useful cropland.

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Lack of rainfall in recent months has left soils completely dry and unable to release moisture that would take up heat from the air through evaporation.

The soil from deserts and dry lands is key to the health of the world's oceans, as it is the most important source of iron and other nutrients.

Lithium is usually extracted from soil, in a process that consumes a lot of water, or from brine dried in large salt...

Dry soil encourages the production of the plant hormone abscisic acid in vine roots, which is correlated with earlier maturity of wine grapes.

To get a more realistic read, he and his co-workers treated soil from a cornfield run by the university with either a solution of buckyballs, yielding a dose of one part per million in the soil, or with dry buckyballs for a concentration of a thousand parts per million.

Dartmouth scientists examined the variability of soil phosphorus in the McMurdo Dry Valleys by evaluating two forms of phosphorus in surface soil samples: labile phosphorus, which is immediately available to organisms, and mineral phosphorus, which needs to be broken down by weathering before organisms can use it.

In the West, the feedback is positive: Wet soils increase the chance of a next - day downpour, and dry soils diminish that chance.

With an average annual air temperature of -2.2 F and an average precipitation of 3 - 50 mm per year, the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica are dominated by dry soils underlain by permafroDry Valleys of Antarctica are dominated by dry soils underlain by permafrodry soils underlain by permafrost.

But east of the Mississippi River, the feedback flips: Wet soils lower the likelihood of rainfall, and dry soils raise it.

«In Antarctic dry valleys, early signs of climate change - induced shifts in soil.»

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.

Another theory: oxidation of organic matter — as permafrost thawed, as peaty soils burned or as a seaway dried up — may have caused the Paleocene - Eocene warming.

Only where the soils show high basic content, partly as a result of a precipitation - evaporation ratio approaching unity, does the herbage synthesize protein adequately and cure on the stalk to provide nutritious feed in the dry season.

Moreover, the soils of the mammoth steppe were drier and emitted less of the greenhouse gas methane.

The research «contradicts the notion that trees and shrubs are drying up the prairie landscape,» says soil scientist Mark Seyfried of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service in Boise.

The study shows that soil drying is the key link in the intensification of mega-heatwaves, says Dara Entekhabi, a hydrologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.

It also has contributed to key insights about how animal behavior can be harnessed to improve the condition of the land, especially in regions like his native Zimbabwe with long dry seasons during which ruminants are conveyers of soil fertility and moisture.

Both the timing and quantity of precipitation matter, as does the type of soil and whether it's dry or already waterlogged when rain hits.

Those markers of life were the most bountiful at the first sampling time, and then declined as the soil dried out again.