The nutrient cycle outlines the movement of chemical nutrients in the environment. Examples include the carbon cycle and the nitrogen cycle.

Northwestern University researchers are actively overturning the conventional view of iron oxides as mere phosphorus "sinks." A critical nutrient for life, most phosphorus in the soil is organic ...

A new study by Professor Ludmilla Aristilde found that minerals drive phosphorus release at enzyme-like rates.

Plants need both Nitrogen (N) and Phosphorus (P) to grow well. A lack of these two elements limits growth. Farmers apply N & P fertilizer, especially to corn, to increase yields but there is a limit.

Phosphorus cycle process in the subtropical masson pine plantation with increasing forest age Peer-Reviewed Publication KeAi Communications Co., Ltd.

Finding abiotic pathways of producing bioavailable phosphorus in the natural environment has important implications for how researchers understand the phosphorus cycle, says Elizabeth Herndon, an ...

Northwestern University-led researchers have discovered a new way that nature cycles phosphorus, a finding that uncovers a missing piece of Earth's puzzling phosphorus cycle.

At the beginning of the XXᵉ century, two chemists succeeded in fixing nitrogen in the air. Their invention saw the birth of intensive agriculture, gravely disrupting the nitrogen cycle.

Ellen R. Herbert, Joseph P. Schubauer-Berigan, Christopher B. Craft, Effects of 10 yr of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization on carbon and nutrient cycling in a tidal freshwater marsh, Limnology and ...

The fertilizer, struvite, offers a triple win for sustainability and crop production, as it recycles nutrients from wastewater streams, reduces leaching of phosphorus and nitrogen in agricultural ...