soil dwellers
these soil dwellers that be can be seen all over CT can be both beneficial and harmful to plant communities
What are earthworms?
A soil with less than 52% sand, between 28-58% silt and between 7-27% clay.
What is loam?
silt fence
What is the most common form of soil erosion prevention?
Climate, Organisms, Relief (topography), Parent Material, Time
What are the 5 soil forming factors also known as CLORPT?
in the paper "Mycorrhizae in Urban Landscapes" it was found no environmental benefit can scientifically proven when this soil inoculent is applied.
What is mycorrhizae?
A very young soil with little formation
What is an Inceptisol?
This element takes a ride when soil is eroded
What is phosphorous?
This jumble of soil particles have been smeared over much of the bedrock in CT by the Wisconsin Glacier and forms a layer which roots or water can not penetrate.
What is hard-pan?
this soil fungal group is found in agricultural, greenhouse and many herbaceous plant communities.
what are Vascular Arbuscular Mycohrrizal fungi (VAM)
Inceptisol
What is the most common soil order in CT?
Gotta keep it vegetated
What is soil?
Western Uplands, Central Valley & Eastern Uplands
What are the 3 major landscape regions of Connecticut
100's of yards of Vascular Arbuscular Mycohrrizal fungi (VAM) are found in this soil
What are prairie soils?
All of this soil order are considered wetland in CT
What are Histosols?
these 3 things happen when humans alter the landscape.
what are 1) increased flow of surface water due to runoff from impervious surfaces.
2)more mowed lawns increasing runoff and nutrients into waters
3)reduction in riparian buffers?
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A
B
C
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what are the common soil horizons in Connecticut?
more studies of this soil fungal group will help land managers better control of invasive plant species in the future
What are Vascular Arbuscular Mychorrizae VAM
Windsor
What is the unofficial soil of Connecticut ?
these 3 solutions were proposed to stop soil erosion
in the erosion video
what are 1) put runoff from impervious surfaces into soil.
2) Keep the soil covered
3)keep riparian areas well vegetated with trees and shrubs?
these 3 drainage classes are wetlands in CT
what are 1) poorly drained soils
2) very poorly drained soils
3) floodplain soils