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 ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 102, No. 26 (Jun. 28, 2005), pp. 9212-9217 (6 pages) We present a model of plant-nutrient interactions that ...

Irvine, Calif., Feb. 4, 2025 — Computer models reveal how human-driven climate change will dramatically overhaul critical nutrient cycles in the ocean. In the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

Grasslands are some of the most at-risk terrestrial environments, and North American populations of bison and prairie dogs ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The biogeochemical role of understory vegetation was investigated in three sites representing a typical topographic sequence of xeric, mesic, ...

The effects of the steadily increasing amount of plastic in the ocean are complex and not yet fully understood. Scientists at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel have now shown for the ...

Beneath our feet, an invisible world of electron exchanges quietly drives the chemistry that sustains ecosystems, controls ...

In the past, whales, giant land mammals, and other animals played a vital role in keeping the planet fertile by transporting nutrients via their feces. However, massive declines and extinctions of ...