When we better understand pedodiversity, we will be better able to predict the impact of forest management on soil.

当我们更好地了解土壤多样性时，我们就能更好地预测森林管理对土壤的影响。

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Pits and mounds have significantly different soil properties than other areas in the forest.

与森林中的其他地区相比，坑和土丘的土壤性质有显著的不同。

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In other words, organic matter gets broken down and added into the soil more quickly in these gaps than in the surrounding forest.

换句话说，这些空地上的有机物分解并进入土壤的速度比周围森林中的更快。

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Metagenomics takes another approach, basically putting an entire environment--the water in an ocean, the soil in a forest or the insides of an animal--into a DNA sequencer.

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The droppings that cowbirds and other invaders leave behind can also contain seeds from invasive plants that will sprout, spread and ultimately change the soil so much that some forest salamanders and wildflowers can't survive, experts note.

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They will record plant species, forest structure, ash cover, soil properties, river sediment and the overall topography of the burned area.

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