Assertion: alder | /r/CapableOf | improve soils fertility
Facets:
value: due to its ability
type: CAUSE
value: by fixing atmospheric nitrogen
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Alder improves soils fertility by fixing atmospheric nitrogen in a form that can be used by other plants.
text: Evidence suggests that this alder may have been exploited by the Incas and used to increase soil fertility and stabilize terrace soils in their upland farming systems.
text: As a result of this mutually beneficial relationship, alder improves the fertility of the soil where it grows, and as a pioneer species, it helps provide additional nitrogen for the successional species which follow.
text: As a result of this mutually-beneficial relationship, alder improves the fertility of the soils where it grows, and as a pioneer species, it helps provide additional nutrients for the successional species which follow.
text: Alder has been known to improve surrounding soil fertility due to its ability to fix nitrogen from the air.
text: As a result of their mutually beneficial relationship with Frankia, alder trees improve the fertility of the soils in which they grow and are considered to be a pioneer species, making the soil more fertile and thus enabling other successional species to become established.