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Mineral Nutrition

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Plant Physiological Ecology

Abstract

If water is the environmental factor that most strongly constrains terrestrial productivity, then nutrients are an important additional factor. The productivity of virtually all natural ecosystems, even arid ecosystems, responds to addition of one or more nutrients, which indicates widespread nutrient limitation. Species differ widely in their ability to acquire nutrients from the soil. Some plants can take up iron, phosphate, or other ions from a calcareous soil from which other species cannot extract enough nutrients to persist. In other soils, the concentration of aluminum, heavy metals, or sodium chloride may reach toxic levels, but some species have genetic adaptations that enable them to survive in such environments. This does not mean that metallophytes need high concentrations of heavy metals or that halophytes require high salt concentrations to survive. These species perform well in the absence of these adverse conditions.

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