They are an important component of soil life and soil chemistry.

Soil life - collective term for all the organisms living within the soil.

The diversity and abundance of soil life exceeds that of any other ecosystem.

As a result of almost 40 years of work, in 1958 the book Humus - soil life and fertility was published.

But this would be to little avail if the ground were waterlogged or so acid as to prevent the normal action of soil life.

The microfauna are the least understood of soil life, due to their small size and great diversity.

Its diet consists principally of earthworms and other soil life, but the mole will eat vegetable matter.

Soil life is scarce and burrowing earthworms absent.

Thereafter, productivity gradually picks up, as soil life and structure are restored, until it returns to its original permanent status.

When oxygen levels become limited, intense competition arises between soil life forms for the remaining oxygen.

Organic agriculture aims to optimize the health and productivity of soil life, plants, animals and people.

For the most part, soil life thrives in the top six inches of the earth where moisture, air, nutrition, and temperature are most amenable.

Cultivations are then the only alternative until a grass break or green manure can allow soil life to regenerate and resume its proper role.

Improvement of soil structure, soil life, and prevention of soil erosion.

We have also managed to improve the emphasis of the regulation on soil fertility, soil life and soil management practices.

The first essential of healthy soil life is air, and this means good subsoil drainage and adequate inter-crumb pores.

Rainfall and earthworms and other soil life gradually work fertilizers and organic materials into the ground after I lay them on the surface.

Some greywater may be applied directly from the sink to the garden or container field, receiving further treatment from soil life and plant roots.

Compost helps support soil life, Mr. Harrington explained, and so does the derivative widely known as compost tea.

Soiled Doves released in album in 2003, Soiled Life.

Often, plants gather nutrients and other chemicals in the soil in tandem with bacteria and other soil life.

Do a home soil test: look for a kit that tests for soil life and fertility and compost maturity, not just pH.

Without earthworms and other soil life, no amount of cultivations and chemical fertilizers will build and sustain true structure and fertility.

Most are found in the soil, and they include some of the most common soil life, playing important roles in decomposition and humus formation.

In soil science, pedology, geomorphology, and archaeology, bioturbation is the physical rearrangement of the soil profile by soil life.

Exceeding treatment capacity can damage soil biota and limit soil function.

Therefore, soil layers, and in turn soil biota, are conserved in their natural state.

The primary role of soil biota is to recycle organic matter that is derived from the "above-ground plant-based food web".

Soil biota, wildlife, etc.

The soil biota includes:

Soil life, soil biota, or edaphon is a collective term for all the organisms living within the soil.

Some studies have shown that nitrogen eutrophication decreases the amount of carbon allocation to soil biota over longer periods of time.

Biota and soil biota: Organisms interact with the soil and contribute to its quality in innumerable ways.

For example, restoration of soil biota, including symbiotic myccorhizae, invertebrates, and microorganisms may improve nutrient cycling dynamics.

"In management of Tropical Agro eco-systems and the beneficial of soil Biota".

By so doing it allows easier penetration of water into the soil, increases soil aeration and enhances the activity of soil biota.

Soil mineral particles are both separated and bridged by organic matter breakdown products, and soil biota exudates, making the soil easy to work.

Techniques used in bioremediation include landfarming, biostimulation and bioaugmentating soil biota with commercially available microflora.

The effects of soil biota and fertilization on the success of Sapium sebiferum Applied Soil Ecology 38:1-11.

Restoration failures may occur when appropriate ecosystem conditions are not reestablished, such as soil characteristics (e.g., salinity, pH, beneficial soil biota, etc.), surface water and groundwater levels, and flow regimes.

Increasing soil carbon is not a straightforward matter-it is made complex by the relative activity of soil biota, which can consume and release carbon and are made more active by the addition of nitrogen fertilizers.

Research on competition between tamarisk seedlings and co-occurring native trees has found that the seedlings are not competitive over a range of environments, however stands of mature trees effectively prevent native species establishment in the understory, due to low light, elevated salinity, and possibly changes to the soil biota.