Soil Quality Improvement with Increasing Reclamation Years in the Yellow River Delta by Shanbao Liu, Fadong Li, Qiuying Zhang, Zhao Li, Chao Tian, Yunfeng Qiao, Kun Du, Hefa Cheng, Gang Chen, Xiaoyan Li

“…The available nitrogen (AN), available phosphorus (AP), and soil organic carbon (SOC) exhibited a significant increase of 24.87 mg/kg, 10.11 mg/kg, and 6.76 g/kg, respectively, with increasing reclamation years. …”
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Variation in aboveground biomass in forests and woodlands in Tanzania along gradients in environmental conditions and human use by Daniela Requena Suarez, Danaë M A Rozendaal, Veronique De Sy, David A Gibbs, Nancy L Harris, Joseph O Sexton, Min Feng, Saurabh Channan, Eliakimu Zahabu, Dos Santos Silayo, Anssi Pekkarinen, Christopher Martius, Martin Herold

“…In decreasing order of importance, AGB in recovering forests unexpectedly decreased with water availability, increased with surrounding tree cover and time since establishment, and decreased with elevation, distance to roads, and soil phosphorus content. AGB in established forests unexpectedly decreased with water availability, increased with surrounding tree cover, and soil nitrogen content, and decreased with elevation. …”
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Effects of Three Long-Term Land Use Patterns on Soil Degradation in the Yellow River Delta: Evidence from Ecological Stoichiometry by Baishu Kong, Taochuan Zhu, Yufei Ming, Sen Jia, Chuanrong Li, Fenghua Wang, Zhi Dong, Shuying Jiao, Yongqiang Li, Lianhui Shi

“…We investigated the stoichiometry of soil and enzyme carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P) in three land use patterns (Alfalfa artificial grassland, AG; wheat–maize rotation field, WM; native grassland, PC) established for 19 years in the YRD. …”
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The Seasonal Patterns, Ecological Function and Assembly Processes of Bacterioplankton Communities in the Danjiangkou Reservoir, China by Zhao-Jin Chen, Yong-Qi Liu, Yu-Ying Li, Li-An Lin, Bao-Hai Zheng, Ming-Fei Ji, B. Larry Li, Xue-Mei Han

“…Excessive nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) nutrients in the DJR are the most important factors affecting water quality in the reservoir, N and P nutrients are the main factors affecting bacterial communities. …”
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Effects of alpine meadows with different degradation gradients on the stability of the soil micro-foodweb in the Tibetan Plateau by Lili Nian, Xiaoning Zhang, Liangliang Li, Shu-Yi-Dan Zhou, Xingyu Liu, Xiaodan Li, Xiaoyu Liu, Qiqi Zhao, Yingying Wu, Fasih Ullah Haider, Xuelu Liu, Yingbo Yang

“…Mantel analysis indicated that soil water content (P < 0.05), total phosphorus (P < 0.05), and total nitrogen (P < 0.05) were the primary soil properties affecting the soil bacterial community. …”
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Effect of the application or coating of PGPR-based biostimulant on the growth, yield and nutritional status of maize in Benin by Marcel Yévèdo Adoko, Agossou Damien Pacôme Noumavo, Agossou Damien Pacôme Noumavo, Nadège Adoukè Agbodjato, Olaréwadjou Amogou, Hafiz Adéwalé Salami, Ricardos Mèvognon Aguégué, Nestor Adjovi Ahoyo, Adolphe Adjanohoun, Lamine Baba-Moussa

“…The applied or coated biostimulant improved the uptake of nitrogen, phosphorus and especially potassium with higher significant difference compared to the recommended dose of mineral fertilizer. …”
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Leaf litter mixtures alter decomposition rate, nutrient retention, and bacterial community composition in a temperate forest by Kun Li, Ying Lu, Qing-Wei Wang, Ruiqiang Ni, Rongchu Han, Chuanrong Li, Caihong Zhang, Weixing Shen, Qi Yao, Yueyin Gao, Sergio de-Miguel

“…Litter mixtures without R. pseudoacacia showed non-additive synergistic effects, whereas litter mixtures with R. pseudoacacia exerted additive effects; 2) Litter species in the absence of R. pseudoacacia significantly decreased the nutrient retention rates of litter mixtures compared to those of monocultures; 3) Litter mixtures with or without R. pseudoacacia showing additive and non-additive effects in monocultures had a distinct bacterial community structure; 4) Bacterial community structure was also modified by initial litter traits; carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P) concentrations in monocultures; N/P and C/N ratios of mixtures with R. pseudoacacia; and the lignin/N ratio of mixtures without R. pseudoacacia. …”
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Mineral Intake and Cardiovascular Disease, Cancer, and All-Cause Mortality: Findings from the Golestan Cohort Study by Mohammad Hosein Yazdanpanah, Maryam Sharafkhah, Hossein Poustchi, Arash Etemadi, Mahdi Sheikh, Farin Kamangar, Akram Pourshams, Paolo Boffetta, Sanford M. Dawsey, Christian C. Abnet, Reza Malekzadeh, Maryam Hashemian

“…Q1</sub> = 1.14, 95% CI = 1.01–1.29) and CVD mortality. Dietary phosphorus (HR_{Q5 vs. Q1} = 0.81, 95%CI = 0.69–0.96) and copper intake (HR<sub>Q5 vs. …”
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Metals and Trace Elements in Calcified Valves in Patients with Acquired Severe Aortic Valve Stenosis: Is There a Connection with the Degeneration Process? by Aleš Tomášek, Jan Maňoušek, Jan Kuta, Jiří Hlásenský, Leoš Křen, Martin Šindler, Michal Zelený, Petr Kala, Petr Němec

“…The main goal of the study was to determine the concentration of 21 metals and trace elements—aluminium (Al), barium (Ba), cadmium (Cd), calcium (Ca), chrome (Cr), cobalt (Co), copper (Cu), gold (Au), lead (Pb), magnesium (Mg), mercury (Hg), molybdenum (Mo), nickel (Ni), phosphorus (P), selenium (Se), strontium (Sr), sulfur (S), tin (Sn), titanium (Ti), vanadium (V) and zinc (Zn)—in the tissue of calcified aortic valves and to compare them with the concentrations of the same elements in the tissue of healthy aortic valves in the control group. …”
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Chemical Composition and Content of Biologically Active Substances Found in <i>Cotinus coggygria, Dactylorhiza maculata, Platanthera chlorantha</i> Growing in Various Territories by Stanislav Sukhikh, Lyudmila Asyakina, Maxim Korobenkov, Liubov Skrypnik, Artem Pungin, Svetlana Ivanova, Timothy Larichev, Viktoria Larina, Olesia Krol, Elena Ulrikh, Evgeny Chupakhin, Olga Babich

“…Samples of these medicinal plants contained trace elements (phosphorus, potassium, calcium, sodium, magnesium, and sulfur) and many aliphatic organic acids (succinic acid, benzoic acid, fumaric acid, citric acid, oxalic acid, and tartaric acid). …”
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Culturable Bacterial Endophytes of Wild White Poplar (<i>Populus alba</i> L.) Roots: A First Insight into Their Plant Growth-Stimulating and Bioaugmentation Potential by Natalya S. Gladysh, Alina S. Bogdanova, Maxim A. Kovalev, George S. Krasnov, Vsevolod V. Volodin, Anastasia I. Shuvalova, Nikita V. Ivanov, Mikhail I. Popchenko, Aleksandra D. Samoilova, Aleksandra N. Polyakova, Alexey A. Dmitriev, Nataliya V. Melnikova, Dmitry S. Karpov, Nadezhda L. Bolsheva, Maria S. Fedorova, Anna V. Kudryavtseva

“…The genomes of the strains contain genes involved in the enhanced metabolism of nitrogen, phosphorus, and metals, the synthesis of valuable secondary metabolites, and the detoxification of heavy metals and organic pollutants. …”
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The initial attempt at home hemodialysis in mainland China by Zhaohui Ni, Yijun Zhou, Renhua Lu, Jianxiao Shen, Leyi Gu, Shan Mou, Li Zhao, Haifen Zhang, Bin Zhang, Yan Fang, Wei Fang, Qin Wang, Weiming Zhang, Jidong Zhang, Weiping Li

“…Laboratory tests were conducted in our central testing laboratory, including hemoglobin (Hgb), serum creatinine (Cr), urea nitrogen (BUN), uric acid (UA), albumin (Alb), calcium (Ca), phosphorus (P), parathyroid hormone (PTH), and brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels. …”
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Caffeine, surfactants and organic matter in a high Andean River: Chumbao River case, Apurimac, Peru by David Choque-Quispe, Ruth Karina Herbas-De la Cruz, Carlos A. Ligarda-Samanez, Aydeé M. Solano-Reynoso, Dianeth Buleje-Campos, Yudith Choque-Quispe, Jenny C. Muñoz-Saenz, Zaida Olinda Pumacayo-Sanchez, Liliana Asunción Sumarriva-Bustinza, Nikol Alexsandra Silvera Ticona

“…The results were compared, with the environmental regulations for Peruvian water bodies, which showed that pH, water color, nitrite, COD, DO, BOD5, and total phosphorus exceeded the levels established in the ECA-Peru. …”
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Nitrogen Additions Retard Nutrient Release from Two Contrasting Foliar Litters in a Subtropical Forest, Southwest China by Liyan Zhuang, Qun Liu, Ziyi Liang, Chengming You, Bo Tan, Li Zhang, Rui Yin, Kaijun Yang, Roland Bol, Zhenfeng Xu

“…The decay rate and the mineralization of N and phosphorus (P) was faster in nutrient-rich <i>C. acuminata</i> litter than in nutrient-poor <i>M. wilsonii</i> litter, regardless of N regimes. …”
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Ukrainian Plant Trait Database: UkrTrait v. 1.0 by Denys Vynokurov, Dariia Borovyk, Olha Chusova, Anastasia Davydova, Denys Davydov, Jiří Danihelka, Iwona Dembicz, Svitlana Iemelianova, Ganna Kolomiiets, Ivan Moysiyenko, Viktor Shapoval, Oleksandr Shynder, Nadiia Skobel, Oksana Buzhdygan, Anna Kuzemko

“…Our own measured traits include seed mass, seed shape, leaf area, leaf nitrogen concentration and leaf phosphorus concentration. The current version, i.e. …”
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Purification Effect of Water Eutrophication Using the Mosaic System of Submerged–Emerged Plants and Growth Response by Baoliang Chang, Yingchun Xu, Ze Zhang, Xiaowen Wang, Qijiang Jin, Yanjie Wang

“…Our findings indicated that individual aquatic plants exhibited limited efficacy in pollutant (total nitrogen, total phosphorus, ammonia nitrogen, and chemical oxygen demand) removal. …”
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Screening and Biocontrol Potential of Rhizobacteria Native to Gangetic Plains and Hilly Regions to Induce Systemic Resistance and Promote Plant Growth in Chilli against Bacterial W... by Abhijeet Shankar Kashyap, Nazia Manzar, Mahendra Vikram Singh Rajawat, Amit Kumar Kesharwani, Ravinder Pal Singh, S. C. Dubey, Debasis Pattanayak, Shri Dhar, S. K. Lal, Dinesh Singh

“…In total, 38% of rhizobacteria exhibited the antagonistic capacity to suppress <i>Ralstonia solanacearum</i> growth and showed PGPR activities such as indole acetic acid production by 67.64% from total screened rhizobacteria isolates, phosphorus solubilization by 79.41%, ammonia by 67.75%, HCN by 58.82% and siderophore by 55.88%. …”
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Metabolic profile of sows at different parities and with different litter size by Šamanc Horea, Sladojević Željko, Vujanac Ivan, Prodanović Radiša

“…In the blood serum samples there were determined the concentration of total proteins, albumins, Total bilirubin, calcium and inorganic phosphorus. The results have shown that there was not a significant difference in proteinemia between the groups on the 2nd day after farrowing, while on the 28th day of lactation, proteinemia was significantly lower only in the group with ten or more piglets in a litter. …”
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Divergent soil P accrual in ectomycorrhizal and arbuscular mycorrhizal trees: insights from a common garden experiment in subtropical China by Pingping Lian, Pingping Lian, Pingping Lian, Linglin Xu, Linglin Xu, Linglin Xu, Liuming Yang, Liuming Yang, Liuming Yang, Kai Yue, Kai Yue, Kai Yue, Josep Peñuelas, Josep Peñuelas

“…Tree species establish mycorrhizal associations with both ectomycorrhizal (EM) and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AM), which play crucial roles in facilitating plant phosphorus (P) acquisition. However, little attention has been given to the effects of EM and AM species on soil P dynamics and the underlying mechanisms in subtropical forests, where P availability is typically low. …”
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Enhancement of Biological Activated Carbon (BAC) Process to Improve Removal Efficiency of Micropollutants by Heejong Son, Eun-Young Jung, Hoonsik Yoom, Sangki Choi, Hong-Ki Park

“…Batch and lab-scale column experiments were conducted to evaluate the removal efficiencies of Br2-MP in the conventional BAC process and the BAC with enhanced biofilm properties by the addition of phosphorus (P) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). Biodegradation kinetics were evaluated using results from batch and lab scale column experiments. …”
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