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#CarbonUptake in the Amazon rainforest limited by phosphorus availability 🌿

"About 60% of the Amazon basin is on old soils with low phosphorus content, but the role of phosphorus in controlling productivity was unclear because most fertilization experiments in other parts of the world have been in more phosphorus-rich systems".
–Fernanda Cunha (lead author)

https://phys.org/news/2022-08-amazon-rainforest-growth-limited-lack.html

https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05085-2

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Amazon rainforest growth limited by lack of phosphorus

Growth of the Amazon rainforest in our increasingly carbon-rich atmosphere could be limited by a lack of phosphorus in the soil, new research shows.

Phys.org