Disparities in nutrient content (nitrogen and phosphorus) between herbivores and their plant resources have lately proven to have major consequences for herbivore success, consumer-driven nutrient cycling, and the fate of primary production in ecosystems. Here we extend these findings by examining patterns of nutrient content between animals at higher trophic levels, specifically between insect...

Small-scale heterogeneity of abiotic and biotic factors is expected to play a crucial role in species coexistence. It is known that plants are able to concentrate their root biomass into areas with high nutrient content and also acquire nutrients via symbiotic microorganisms such as arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi. At the same time, little is known about the small-scale distribution of soil n...

Biochar, a carbon-rich solid produced from biomass pyrolysis, has attracted growing interest as fertiliser ingredient due to its ability non-permanently retain nutrients. A greenhouse pot experiment was set up compare three commercial organo-mineral formulations (NPK, NP and K) with the corresponding containing slow-pyrolysis wood biochar (NPK+B, NP+B K+B) (6 replications each). Nutrient leachi...

Globally a huge amount of municipal solid waste (MSW) is being produced which very difficult to dispose. Composting MSW one the options recycling, but its use by farmers limited because low nutrient status. This study has considered some organic amendments increase status compost for potential as an fertilizer in rice cultivation. We prepared three types amended mixing 20% mustard oil cake (MOC...

There has been important progress in understanding ecological dynamics through the development of the theory of ecological stoichiometry. For example, modeling under this framework allows food quality to affect consumer dynamics. While the effects of nutrient deficiency on consumer growth are well understood, recent discoveries in ecological stoichiometry suggest that consumer dynamics are not ...

High litter moisture content, often referred to as wet litter, is a major problem in poultry production. Wet litter is often related to poor management, diseases, and digestive problems. In this experiment, the objective was to study the relationship between nutrient content and the moisture content of the excreta of broilers. A dataset containing 351 observations was built and contained the nu...

Turions are frost resistant, vegetative dormant organs produced by aquatic plants. Tissue N, P, K, Ca, and Mg content was estimated in turions of 5 rooting, non-carnivorous plant species of the genera Caldesia, Hydrocharis, and Potamogeton and in 7 rootless carnivorous plant species of the genera Aldrovanda and Utricularia, and compared with concentrations of these nutrients in ambient waters e...

the effects of salinity and supplied calcium chloride on growth and leaf ions concentration of tomato (lycopersicon esculentum l.) were investigated in gorgan, iran. a factorial experiment was conducted based on rcbd with four nacl levels (0, 50, 100, and 150 mm) and four cacl2 levels (0, 100, 200 and 300 mg l-1). data of growth, yield and leaf’s ca, k, and na content were subjected to analyze ...

aeroponic is a new technology for potato minituber production. in order to recognition of the suitable nutrient solution and potato variety for minituber production in aeroponics in comparison with classic hydroponics, a factorial experiment was carried out with three factors of culture systems (aeroponics and hydroponics), nutrient solutions (chang et al., 2008; apcoab and commercial nutrient ...