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Climate change enhances grassland productivity
Jan 26, 2009 |
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More frequent freeze-thaw cycles in winter can increase biomass production according to the results of a recent study conducted by the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ), the University of Bayreuth ...
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UC Davis researcher leads climate-change discovery
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Jun 18, 2008 |
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A team of researchers led by a first-year UC Davis faculty member has resolved a longstanding paradox in the plant world, which should lead to far more accurate predictions of global climate change.
Researchers explain nitrogen paradox in forests
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Jun 18, 2008 |
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Nitrogen is essential to all life on Earth, and the processes by which it cycles through the environment may determine how ecosystems respond to global warming. But certain aspects of the nitrogen cycle in temperate and tropical ...
Fungi important in Arctic nitrogen cycle
May 09, 2006 |
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U.S. biologists say a new method of calculating nitrogen transfer from mushrooms to plants is proving that fungi is important in the Arctic nitrogen cycle.
Iron controls patterns of nitrogen fixation in the Atlantic
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Nov 02, 2009 |
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Scientists including researchers from the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton and the University of Essex have discovered that interactions between iron supply, transported through the atmosphere from ...
Nitrogen pollution boosts plant growth in tropics by 20 percent
Feb 06, 2008 |
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A study by UC Irvine ecologists finds that excess nitrogen in tropical forests boosts plant growth by an average of 20 percent, countering the belief that such forests would not respond to nitrogen pollution.
Research for Organic Farming - Soya Thrives on Nitrogen From the Air
Oct 20, 2009 |
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For the first time, the capacity of soya plants to absorb nitrogen from the air has been precisely determined in dry areas of Eastern Austria. The primary aim of this project, backed by the FWF Austrian Science ...
Phytoplankton cell membranes challenge fundamentals of biochemistry
Feb 02, 2009 |
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Get ready to send the biology textbooks back to the printer. In a new paper published in Nature, Benjamin Van Mooy, a geochemist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and his colleagues report that microscopic plants ...
Nitrogen fixation and phytoplankton blooms in the southwest Indian Ocean
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Aug 14, 2009 |
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Observations made by Southampton scientists help understand the massive blooms of microscopic marine algae - phytoplankton - in the seas around Madagascar and its effect on the biogeochemistry of the southwest Indian Ocean.
Organic nitrogen gives new clue to biodiversity
Apr 12, 2006 |
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Scientists have found that organic nitrogen is more important for plant growth than previously thought and could contribute to maintaining diversity in grasslands.
World fertilizer prices drop dramatically after soaring to all-time highs
Dec 16, 2008 |
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World fertilizer prices began dropping dramatically in late 2008 after reaching all-time highs around April.
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