Biological soil crust organisms found to play an active role in the development of soil structures and the allocation of water and nutrients. Deserts creep outward in various directions across the ...

Soil formation in polar regions is relatively weakly recognised due to their rarity and spatial dispersion. The main ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The main goal of the study was to determine the diversity of the potential nitrogen-fixing (PNF) bacteria inhabiting agricultural (A) soils ...

Soil-forming processes and soil development rates are compared and contrasted on glacial deposits in two adjacent and coeval valleys of the Quartermain Mountains, which are important because they ...

After using two soil samples to scour away any earthly contaminants from inside the Curiosity rover's sample acquisition system, a third scoop of fine-grained martian soil was dumped into an on-board ...