Science news articles about 'temperate soils'

  • Earthworm detectives provide genetic clues for dealing with soil pollution

    ... engineer' for the role it plays in water, nutrient and carbon cycling in a range of tropical and temperate soils, and is widely used as a model organism for soil testing. However, standard lab assays ...
  • No-tillage plus

    ... often behave differently than temperate soils when being farmed. In tropical regions, soils lose nutrients ... cover crops, crop rotation, and tillage on soil organic carbon storage after 19 years of ...
  • DNA from old insects -- no need to destroy the specimen

    ... method for sediments, to look for insect DNA in temperate soil from New Zealand around 1, ... DNA from a beetle and a moth or butterfly is obtained from the soil, which includes no visible insect remains ...

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