Science news articles about 'tropical soils'

... soil bacteria. Exotic tree plantations appear to generate, under certain climatic conditions, an abrupt decrease in soil microbial diversity which lead to significant degradation of its fertility.

... B. pseudomallei lives in tropical soil and is endemic in southeast Asia and northern Australia, where ... 50 percent. Through a large survey in the tropical Darwin area of Australia, the study's authors ...

... survive anyway. Seeds dispersed onto the soil surface are prey to insect seed predators, ... pathogens and decay organisms that proliferate in moist tropical soils." The results imply that buried seeds ...

... that no-till management combined with a winter cover crop is most effective in retaining nutrients in tropical soils. An international team of scientists from Brazil, France, and the U.S. studied the ...

... 's physical characteristics. "The new ant species is hidden in environmentally stable tropical soils with potentially less competition from other ants and in a relatively stable microclimate," he ...