Sentences with phrase «range of soil»

As shown in Figure 6, the range in ground loop lengths over the typcial range of soil thermal conductivities is 200 to 300 feet per system ton, which translates into a 30 - 50 % difference in required land area, and a 10 - 20 % difference in total system capital cost.

A study in Northern California looked at the biodiversity and carbon storage at five ranches with a range of soil types and farming methods.

Organic farming practices utilise a range of soil management methods, including crop rotations and organic fertilisers.

This paper provides a more complete description of the variation in size, density and attributes of fairy circles in a range of soil types and situations.

The study was set across a range of soil degradation caused by acid rain, which is a major stressor for sugar maple and a chronic issue in the Adirondacks.

Unusually, many of its genes code for proteins that help shuttle materials into or out of the cell, which marks the bacterium as a generalist equipped to deal with a broad range of soil conditions and food sources.

Ackerman's team used these annual rings to their advantage, collecting hundreds of shrub stems across a range of soil conditions.

Jonathan Lynch, a plant physiologist at The Pennsylvania State University and another founder of the crops in silico movement, looks at root behavior under a range of soil nutrient conditions.

After all, it does seem to perform well in a range of soil types, from volcanic to sedimentary.

They do well in a wide range of soils and climates and they are less perishable than many other vegetables, growing wild in many regions of the world.

This plant tolerates a wide range of soils, but it prefers well - drained, loamy soils and plenty of sunlight.

Not exact matches

What it does: This microbe is extremely versatile and can live in a wide range of environments, including soil, water, animals, plants, sewage, and hospitals in addition to humans.

The half - day workshop took place in the Innovation Loft, one of New York's leading creative facilities, and encouraged dynamic group working which responded to the five systemic risks outlined for the next Global Opportunity Report, ranging from cybercrime to soil depletion.

The Initiative is based on the finding that «4 ‰» annual growth rate of the soil carbon stock would make it possible to stop the present increase in atmospheric CO2 and aims to use a range of agricultural systems to sequester CO2 and store it in the ground as soil organic carbon (SOC).

For suppliers of agricultural commodities, that can include a range of practices from agroforestry, planting trees and maintaining forest buffer zones to reducing pesticide use, conserving water and soil and protecting wildlife.

Most of the plantations we source from grow a range of crops, from coffee, bananas, oranges to cacao and the shells and outer skins of all the crops are left to ferment the soil, adding to the unique flavour of the Nacional Arriba bean.

Presto is a market - leading supplier of products ranging from private label food and disposer bags to packaging closures to soil stabilization materials to specialty stretch films.

We provide an extensive range of chemical analyses on plant, soil and water samples for inorganic nutrients, trace elements and heavy metals.

Exactly how the Mexican red pepper seeds arrived from the area of Tabasco, Mexico, which peppers were referred to as Mexican or Chili peppers, and actually ended up in the soil of Whites Deer Range Plantation in Plaquemines Parish and in the soil of Averys Petit Anse Island Plantation in Iberia Parish, quite possibly will remain under speculation and disputed historical legend.

Grapes are grown in a diverse range of climates and soil types, producing an exciting array of styles.

Encompassing seven distinct sites, Allegrini vineyards offer a phenomenal range of unique micro-climates, soils and aspects that underscore the potential of world - class winegrowing in this historic region.

Standing in front of a sign that says «Lead Present» because lead pellets are still in the top nine inches of the soil, club member James Monk used a hand - held monitor to check the shotgun shells of the shooters as they entered the trap range.

ARS employs about 2000 scientists, covering a wide range of disciplines, including chemists, hydrologists, microbiologists, and soil, plant, and animal scientists.

The study sites were spread out across 5,000 square miles of pinyon - juniper woodlands in Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, to capture the wide range of elevation and soil gradients these trees take root in.

In that scenario, the study showed the loss 3 million to 5 million square kilometers of permafrost and changes in soil carbon ranging from a 66 - petagram loss to a 70 - petagram gain.

Applying this technique to soils in temperate regions in coastal California and southeastern Australia, geologist Arjun Heimsath of Arizona State University and his colleagues found soil production rates ranging from 0.00118 to 0.00315 inch a year.

One of forest ecology's fundamental undertakings has long focused on how tree growth is influenced by a host of environmental factors ranging from soils and elevation to hydrology and climate.

He cautions, however, that more research is needed over a wider range of management and climatic conditions, particularly since studies of fertilizers» impacts on soil structural properties, such as aggregate stability, are currently few.

The revealed fungus: plant ratio of 17:1, if reflected globally, would extrapolate to at least 6 million fungal species, suggesting in turn that 98 % of fungi have yet to be described — a figure that remains to be corroborated by similarly detailed sampling across a range of other soil ecosystems.

Using samples collected from the Liwu and Wulu river basins in Taiwan, which run off the central range, the team compared the radiocarbon profiles of organic carbon in the rock with the soil directly above it.

It found that for trees in the comfortable middle of their range, down near the base of a mountain, their offspring thrived nearby in the rich, microbe - filled soil collected right below their parent.

Of the 27 tigers the team is tracking, a handful range entirely in China; a decade ago, it was unclear whether a single big cat remained exclusively on Chinese soil.

Firing ranges host some of the planet's most heavily contaminated soils.

«The exact dimensions will depend on the soil type and the frequency range of the shield,» explained Marco Miniaci of the Universities of Torino and Le Havre.

Cleaning this soil is often too costly for the operators of military and private ranges.

Crops grown in quantities of fly ash ranging from 5 to 20 percent of soil weight absorbed toxic metals, according to a study by Indiana State University researchers.

Given the clear link to croplands / agricultural soils indicated by a variety of our results at a time and in a region where the ground is frozen throughout the high KD season, a whole range of new possibilities emerges regarding the nature of the KD etiological agent.

limit of ~ 500 GtC fossil fuel emissions and 100 GtC storage in the biosphere and soil would keep climate close to the Holocene range to which humanity and other species are adapted.

The York research application was supported by a range of industry partners including Fairtrade pioneer Cafedirect, supermarkets Sainsbury's and Waitrose, LEAF (Linking Environment and Farming), the Soil Association, IAgrE (The Institution of Agricultural Engineers), the WWF's Luc Hoffmann Institute, NFU (National Farmers Union) and CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International).

As Bradley points out, tree growth, and hence the width and density of tree rings, depends on many factors, including the tree species and age, the availability of stored food in the tree and nutrients in the soil, the full range of climatic variables (sunshine, precipitation, temperature, wind speed, humidity); and their distribution throughout the year.

The study authors said the same approach is being applied to a search for biomarkers across a wide range of biological systems, from other infectious agents such as Salmonella to soil microbes of interest in cleaning up toxic waste.

tree growth, and hence the width and density of tree rings, depends on many factors, including the tree species and age, the availability of stored food in the tree and nutrients in the soil, the full range of climatic variables (sunshine, precipitation, temperature, wind speed, humidity); and their distribution throughout the year.»

Each year, the program collects over 10,000 points of data physically, ranging from plants to soils, and from corn to wheat to sorghum and cotton, Xue said.

«Kirk routinely assumes the responsibility of liaison between cooperating programs and is responsible for data collections that range from soil sampling to plant biomass sampling to taking physiological measurements with delicate instrumentation,» Xue said.

He has developed research approaches that integrate a range of disciplines including soil science, ecology, development studies and environmental social sciences and has led inter-disciplinary research projects across African drylands.

A cumulative industrial - era limit of ∼ 500 GtC fossil fuel emissions and 100 GtC storage in the biosphere and soil would keep climate close to the Holocene range to which humanity and other species are adapted.

A limit of approximately 500 GtC on cumulative fossil fuel emissions, accompanied by a net storage of 100 GtC in the biosphere and soil, could keep global temperature close to the Holocene range, assuming that the net future forcing change from other factors is small.

Soil pH should be kept within the range of 5.5 - 7.0.

Food security and soil fertility could be significantly improved by greater grain legume usage and increased improvement of a range of grain legumes.

These teams have designed a range of solutions using biomimicry, such as desalination by looking to mangrove forests, soil remediation by emulating the digestive tract of earthworms, and a peer - to - peer networking app whose algorithm mimics the communication function found in a flock of birds.