Abstract
This chapter describes how phosphorus is used in biological molecules, structures, and physiology. It illustrates the role of phosphorus as a limiting nutrient for the production and growth for organisms and ecosystems. It also explains how phosphorus cycles in natural and agricultural ecosystems cause aquatic eutrophication of downstream surface waters.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Phosphorus, Food, and Our Future |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780190267926 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780199916832 |
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| State | Published - Aug 8 2013 |
Keywords
- Aquatic eutrophication
- Biological molecules
- Ecosystems
- Limiting nutrient
- Phosphorous cycles
- Phosphorus
- Physiology
- Structures