INTRODUCTION The ocean plays a central role in our earth’s climate system and also provides a range of important ecosystem services, including food, energy, transport, and nutrient cycling. Marine biogeochemistry focuses on the study of complex biological, chemical, and physical processes involved in the cycling of key chemical elements within the ocean, and between the ocean and the seafloor, ...

Indigenous acidophilic bacteria separated from mine-waste can be used in return for the addition of the reagents like sulfuric acid. Among the tailings bacteria, Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans and Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans are of the most-studied ones for the bioleaching and bioremediation of elements. In this work, the isolation and characterization of the mentioned bacteria are studied by...

in order toa desirable growth, plants need fertile soil which has the availability of nutrient elements in it. sometimes, in spite of having access to the nutrient elements, decrease yield, due to undesirable physical situation. stock (matthiolaincana cv. column crimson) is one of the potting flower that its growth medium traditionally including hawar soil, basin sediment and untreated waste mu...

A question that frequently arises in connection with elements regarded necessary for plant growth is whether or not a particular element is an essential plant food or merely a stimulating substance. Is its role that of a catalyzer, or is it actually incorporated into the tissues as an integral part of the plant? These questions are more applicable to such elements as manganese, copper, zinc and...

Mycorrhizas are the chief organ for plant mineral nutrient acquisition. In temperate, mixed forests, ash roots (Fraxinus excelsior) are colonized by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AM) and beech roots (Fagus sylvatica) by ectomycorrhizal fungi (EcM). Knowledge on the functions of different mycorrhizal species that coexist in the same environment is scarce. The concentrations of nutrient elements ...

One criterion of the effectiveness of nutritional sprays is the rate at which the foliar applied nutrients are absorbed by the leaf and translocated to other plant parts including the roots. Two distinct but not easily separated processes, absorption and transport, are involved. Initial penetration most likely involves passage through the cuticle and epidermal cells (17, 20); stomata may also p...

in this study fertilizing potential of municipal solid waste (msw) compost was investigated by the distribution behavior of heavy metals, nutrient elements and salinity content among the different size fractions. therefore, 3 compost samples (each composed of 6 subsamples) were collected from sanandaj msw composting plant. then, the samples were physically divided into seven fractions of differ...

Ecological stoichiometry postulates that differential nutrient recycling of elements such as nitrogen and phosphorus by consumers can shift the element that limits plant growth. However, this hypothesis has so far considered the effect of consumers, mostly herbivores, out of their food-web context. Microbial decomposers are important components of food webs, and might prove as important as cons...