Sentences with phrase «soil ecosystem»

This includes maintaining a healthy soil ecosystem without depending strongly on fertilizer, micronutrients or chemicals to fight insects or disease.

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.

Keiluweit, assistant professor in UMass Amherst's School of Earth and Sustainability, says the team's next steps include quantifying the amount of anaerobic microsites in different soil ecosystems and assessing how carbon stabilization in them is affected by variables such as the soil hydrologic regime, which is expected to change dramatically due to climate change.

Soil compaction is a global threat to soil ecosystem services, causing tremendous costs to society.

In her dissertation, she is engaging in design - based research to advance our understanding of how elementary children create, share, and contest spatial explanations about the surrounding schoolyard soil ecosystem.

In addition, the team removed isopods, cords, or both from some samples to examine their effects on soil ecosystems.

But that worry may stem in part from an incomplete picture of soil ecosystems, argues an international team of researchers led by Thomas Crowther, a postdoctoral associate at Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

Farmers need a holistic understanding especially of the soil ecosystem in order to be successful, and building this knowledge base is more time - consuming than purchasing synthetic pesticides and fertilizers.

Chef Chris Kiyuna and owners Karen Leibowitz and Anthony Myint run their own aquaponic green house in Oakland; source local, pasture - raised meats using a carbon - farming method to minimize Co2 impact; and bake their bread with kernza, a perennial wheat that helps restore the soil ecosystem.

A key component of the soil ecosystem, its global species diversity, has tended to be estimated by various proxies.

The findings raise important questions about the relationship between atmospheric change and soil ecosystems, says Michael Miller, a soil ecologist at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago.

By hosting fewer methane - producing microbes, the GM rice might alter the soil ecosystem in unknown ways, notes microbial ecologist Paul Bodelier of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology at Wageningen University in a commentary.

Rice and other plants normally release carbon - rich sugars and other compounds through their roots, contributing to the soil ecosystem.

My dissertation takes up these issues within the context of 4th and 5th grade classrooms in which I use an instructional design that supports student inquiry into the soil ecosystem in their schoolyard and surrounding neighborhoods.

Other killers of good bacteria include chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and soil sterilizers in agriculture which damage the soil ecosystem and the natural flow of bacteria found in the food chain.