News tagged with nutrient
Headwater stream nutrient enrichment disrupts food web
Dec 17, 2009 |
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Human activity is increasing the supply of nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, to stream systems all over the world. The conventional wisdom -- bolstered by earlier research -- has held that these additional nutrients ...
Climate change turns up heat on mushrooms
Dec 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered that spring-fruiting fungi, including the morel and St George’s mushroom are fruiting nearly three weeks earlier than they did 50 years ago.
ADA releases updated position paper on nutrient supplementation
Dec 08, 2009 |
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While supplements can help some people meet their nutrition needs, eating a wide variety of nutrient-rich foods is the best way for most people to obtain the nutrients they need to be healthy and reduce their risk of chronic ...
In the war between the sexes, the one with the closest fungal relationship wins
Nov 10, 2009 |
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The war between the sexes has been fought on many fronts throughout time -- from humans to birds to insects, the animal kingdom is replete with species involved in their own skirmishes. A recent study by Dr. Sarah Eppley ...
Model microbial community for studying expanding dead zones characterized
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 22, 2009 |
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Among the many changes in the ocean is the expansion of oxygen-deficient or oxygen minimum zones (OMZs), also known as dead zones, which affect the processes by which carbon is captured and sequestered on ...
Lake Research That Isn't All Wet
Oct 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The federal government may not have been able to save California from massive budget cuts, but at least a stimulus research grant will help scientists understand the biology of western lakes.
From grass to water, Chesapeake Bay experts differ on meaning of 'clean'
Sep 29, 2009 |
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After a recent rain, Baltimore's Inner Harbor is clogged with an eclectic combination of garbage -- soda bottles and a large purple ball, sticks and dirt, candy wrappers and a hollowed-out television.
Precise blending makes marketable product from ethanol co-product
Sep 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A Purdue University researcher has found a way to predict the nutrient content in distillers dried grains with solubles, making the ethanol byproduct more marketable as a feedstock.
New research to unravel how nutrients drive toxic 'brown tides' on East Coast
Sep 17, 2009 |
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NOAA has awarded Massachusetts-based Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution $120,000 as part of an anticipated three-year, nearly $500,000 project, to determine how nitrogen and phosphorus promote brown tides on the East Coast. ...
Chesapeake Bay cleanup a local issue for Pennsylvania, expert says
Sep 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As federal agencies respond this month to President Barack Obama's executive order to redouble efforts to clean up the Chesapeake Bay, the challenge in Pennsylvania is to focus on local initiatives ...
Golf course putting greens show their age
Sep 04, 2009 |
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Just like the rest of us, golf courses show their age -- especially on putting greens, which experience more foot traffic than anywhere else on golf courses. Putting greens, which comprise only about 1.6% of the total area ...
Newly improved reference material targets infant formula analysis
Aug 26, 2009 |
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Chemists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have issued a new certified reference material—a standardized sample backed by NIST—for determining the concentrations of vitamins, minerals and other nutrients ...
Water quality improves after lawn fertilizer ban, study shows
Aug 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In an effort to keep lakes and streams clean, municipalities around the country are banning or restricting the use of phosphorus-containing lawn fertilizers, which can kill fish and cause ...
Carnegie donates landmark clones to biology
Aug 06, 2009 |
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With the information explosion, it's remarkable that so little is known about the interactions that proteins have with each other and the protective membrane that surrounds a cell. These interactive, so-called membrane proteins ...
Higher carbon dioxide may give pines competitive edge
Aug 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Pine trees grown for 12 years in air one-and-a-half times richer in carbon dioxide than today's levels produced twice as many seeds of at least as good a quality as those growing under normal ...
