1 a person who acquires goods and services for his or her own personal needs. Compare â producer â 6. 2 a person or thing that consumes. 3 usually pl (Ecology) an organism, esp. an animal, within a community that feeds upon plants or other animals.
Characterization of a Sandy Soil by Three Sampling Methods 365. The challenge in defining the variability in the soil is not only how to define these. natural bodies, but also how to quantify the constituents within the soil.
The effective water capacity of a soil is the fraction of the void spaces available for water storage, measured in inches per inch. The minimum infiltration rate is the final rate that water passes through the soil profile during saturated conditions, measured in terms of inches per hour. The hydrologic soil properties are obtained by identifying the soil textures by a gradation test for each change in soil profile.