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Macronutrients CHNOPS Micronutrients essential to most organisms Micronutrients essential to some plants Micronutrients essential to some animals Carbon Sodium Boron Iodine Nitrogen Magnesium Cobalt Selenium Phosphorus Potassium Silicon Chromium Oxygen Calcium Vanadium _ Hydrogen Chlorine _ _ Sulfur Manganese _ _ _ Iron _ _ _ Copper _ _ _ Zinc _ _ Element Structure/function Nitrogen Nucleic acids (RNA/DNA) Amino acids (protein) Phosphorus ATP! Nucleic acids (RNA/DNA) Phospholipids (membranes) Bones Potassium Osmotic balance Basis of charge gradients (ATP production, action potentials in animals) Activates enzymes Calcium Cell walls Bones & exoskeletons Signal transduction (within cells, between neurons) Sulfur Amino acids methionine & cysteine Many enzymes, cofactors, and catalysts Sulfur metabolism Iron Ion donor/acceptor (redox reactions, electron transport) O2 transport 7 Science 12 August 2011: vol. 333 no. 6044 880-882 Medicago truncatula Units? Figure 8: An experimental reference watershed at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, USA Researchers have manipulated entire watersheds, for example by whole-tree harvesting, and then monitored losses of various elements. The whole-tree harvesting of watershed 2 in 1965 affected the uptake and loss of nutrients and elements within the forest ecosystem and was followed by high loss rates of nitrate, hydrogen ions, and calcium ions in stream waters for several years. (Stream chemistry data were provided by G. E. Likens with funding from the National Science Foundation and The A. W. Mellon Foundation.) SimUText : Nutrient Cycling Section 2, Page 19 Nitrogen concentration in streams flowing from adjacent clearcut and intact forests at Hubbard Brook, NH (after Likens et al., 1970). ©2011 SimBiotic Software for Teaching and Research, Inc., All Rights Reserved. Use restricted to subscribers of associated SimUText chapter. http://www.scopenvironment.org/downloadpubs/scope21/chapter07.html http://www.scopenvironment.org/downloadpubs/scope21/chapter07.html Haber (or Haber-Bosch) process N2 + 3 H2 ⇌ 2 NH3 (ΔH = −92.22 kJ/mol) …and the Green Revolution Fritz Haber SimUText : Nutrient Cycling Section 3, Page 7 The phosphorus cycle. ©2011 SimBiotic Software for Teaching and Research, Inc., All Rights Reserved. Use restricted to subscribers of associated SimUText chapter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aquatic_Dead_Zones.jpg http://sparkcharts.sparknotes.com/gensci/envsci/section4.php http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/ph.html SimUText : Nutrient Cycling Section 3, Page 12 The carbon cycle ©2011 SimBiotic Software for Teaching and Research, Inc., All Rights Reserved. Use restricted to subscribers of associated SimUText chapter. General Chemistry: Principles, Patterns, and Applications, v. 1.0 by Bruce Averill and Patricia Eldredge Lackner, K. S. 2003. A Guide to CO2 Sequestration. Science 300:1677-1678.