Benthic foraminifera are unicellular eukaryotes that inhabit marine sediments and play a pivotal role in nutrient cycling. Their remarkable physiological capabilities enable them to thrive in diverse ...
Soil nutrients support plants, and the animals who consume plants return these nutrients to the soil, creating a nutrient cycle. In a new study published in Ecology, scientists from the Smithsonian's ...
In a warming corner of Iceland, tiny soil microbes are quietly rewriting one of Earth’s most fundamental life-support systems. Instead of passing nitrogen along to plants, they are increasingly ...
A groundbreaking study has uncovered a fascinating connection between the circadian rhythms of tea plants and the microbial communities in their rhizosphere, providing new insights into nutrient ...
Precipitation deeply couples with nutrient cycling through its interactions with atmospheric deposition and canopy interception, which alters its own chemical properties. Throughfall and stemflow ...
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- TABLES -- FIGURES -- PREFACE -- Chapter One. INTRODUCTION -- Chapter Two. THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS AS A MODEL ECOSYSTEM -- Chapter Three. GRADIENTS IN ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS, ...
Human and animal waste can replace many fertilizers if managed better and used closer to farms, improving farming systems.