Nutrient Elements in Grassland
：Soil-Plant-Animal Relationships
Publication subTitle ：Soil-Plant-Animal Relationships
Publisher： CABI Publishing
Publication year： 2000
E-ISBN: 9780851999388
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9780851994376
Subject： S812-05 Grassland and other relations
Keyword： Botany and Plant Sciences Agricultural Science Agronomy and Crop Production
Language： ENG
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Description
This book is an essential reference source covering the chemical elements that are nutrients for plants or grazing animals. It deals with the concentrations and transformations of these elements in soils, grassland plants, and ruminant animals, particularly cattle and sheep. For each element, the following data are given: forms occurring in soil, factors that affect availability and concentration, uptake and distribution in grassland plants, role in animal nutrition, amounts and forms excreted by grazing animals, and concentrations needed by ruminant animals.
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