Here, we run through what essential plant nutrients are needed for growth and what each one does. The basis of healthy plant ...

The bulk of the soil solid fraction is constituted by soil minerals, which exert significant direct and indirect influences on the supply and availability of most nutrient elements. The main ...

While K is a known essential element, very little is known about silicon until recently and its effect on plant growth. Our soils are largely composed of silicon, sand (silicon oxide) and clays ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Phytoplankton elemental stoichiometry provides a window into the interactions between marine nutrient distributions and phytoplankton ...

A recent theory proposes that whales weren't just predators in the ocean environment: Nutrients that whales excreted may have provided a key fertilizer to these marine ecosystems. Oceanographers now ...