Science news articles about 'soil measurements'

... cannot utilize all the plant-available water in the soil, due to slow water transport in clay ... based on actual yield measurements, and less strongly on conventional soil measurement techniques, which do ...

Phoenix has continued studies of its landing site by widening a trench, making soil measurements and depositing a sample into a gap between partially opened doors on the lander's oven.

... researchers pay close attention to bulk density, as it is one of the most common soil measurements and it is often used as a measure of soil quality. A soil's bulk density can be indicative of the ...

... the climate gets warmer, arid soils lose nitrogen as gas, reports a new Cornell study ... parts per trillion that had never before been applied to soil measurements. The researchers covered small patches ...