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http://elcomercio.pe/planeta/1275383/noticia-arboles-se-alimentan-nitrogeno-rocas
Spanish to English translation
Trees are fed nitrogen from rocks
This component helps them grow and increase their capacity to absorb from the atmosphere the carbon dioxide (CO2), the main gas contributing to global warming
Tuesday September 6, 2011 - 2:06 pm
(Photo: File El Comercio)
Researchers at the University of California-Davis, U.S., demonstrated for the first time, the trees can go directly to the nitrogen of the rocks, making them grow and increase its ability to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) .
"The results of the investigation left us speechless. Question everything we know so far about the nitrogen cycle and what the textbooks say, "said Benjamin Houlton, a biochemist at the university and one of the authors of the study, reported the BBC.
Previously it was thought that nitrogen would only enter an ecosystem through the atmosphere but was very limited, why not have reached the forests to obtain optimum vegetative growth.
"It's worth noting that nitrogen in the rocks we analyzed data from the time of the dinosaurs, when the remains of plants and animals were incorporated into the sediments became rocks," said Randy Dahlgren, coauthor of the study.
For the study, scientists identified the isotopes in both, the result clearly confirmed the link between the nitrogen of the trees and the rocks
Similarly, Benjamin Houlton said that if forests can also feed on the nitrogen stored in the rocks, then, climate change predictions may vary as the lungs of the planet now would capture more CO2, the main gas contributing to global warming .
Spanish to English translation
Trees are fed nitrogen from rocks
This component helps them grow and increase their capacity to absorb from the atmosphere the carbon dioxide (CO2), the main gas contributing to global warming
Tuesday September 6, 2011 - 2:06 pm
(Photo: File El Comercio)
Researchers at the University of California-Davis, U.S., demonstrated for the first time, the trees can go directly to the nitrogen of the rocks, making them grow and increase its ability to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) .
"The results of the investigation left us speechless. Question everything we know so far about the nitrogen cycle and what the textbooks say, "said Benjamin Houlton, a biochemist at the university and one of the authors of the study, reported the BBC.
Previously it was thought that nitrogen would only enter an ecosystem through the atmosphere but was very limited, why not have reached the forests to obtain optimum vegetative growth.
"It's worth noting that nitrogen in the rocks we analyzed data from the time of the dinosaurs, when the remains of plants and animals were incorporated into the sediments became rocks," said Randy Dahlgren, coauthor of the study.
For the study, scientists identified the isotopes in both, the result clearly confirmed the link between the nitrogen of the trees and the rocks
Similarly, Benjamin Houlton said that if forests can also feed on the nitrogen stored in the rocks, then, climate change predictions may vary as the lungs of the planet now would capture more CO2, the main gas contributing to global warming .