soil
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- Variability in soil properties are important to understand, and is complex, dynamic as it is affected by many different factors.
- The soil is the most important constituent to fulfilment of all the basic needs of human beings and also is an important component of our farming.
- Catch crop root growth and nitrogen (N) uptake from both shallow and deeper soil layers are important for N management in arable farming systems, particularly in climates where excess winter precipitation induces N leaching.
- Mineral oil contamination of soil and groundwater was discovered at a refinery site which was abandoned in 1984.
- In situ immobilization of heavy metal-contaminated soils with the repeated incorporation of amendments can effectively reduce the bioavailability of soil heavy metals.
- Compost application tends to increase soil fertility and is likely to modify soil hydrodynamic properties by acting on soil structural porosity. These proprties need to be understood.
- The increasing entry or unnatural concentration of man-made substances in soils affects every level of the biosphere.
- Soil organic matter conservation, paramount in tropical agriculture, is affected by the composition of cultivated plant species and the input of dry matter and nitrogen into the system.