Nutrient elements in grassland : soil-plant-animal relationships /

• Main Author: Whitehead, D. C. (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2000.
• Subjects: Trace elements in animal nutrition.; Ruminants > Nutrition.; Trace elements in plant nutrition.; Forage plants > Composition.; Soils > Trace element content.; Forage and Fodder Crops, (New March 2000); Plant Composition.; Soil Chemistry and Mineralogy.; Animal Nutrition (General); Grasslands and Rangelands.; Forage and Feed Products (Non-human); Cattle.; Ruminants.; Sheep.; Cations.; Chemical composition.; Chlorine.; Cycling.; Elements.; Grassland soils.; Grasslands.; Iodine.; Minerals.; Nutrient availability.; Nutrient balance.; Nutrients.; Plant composition.; Temperate grasslands.; Trace elements.; Uptake.; Electronic books.
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This book deals with the concentrations and transformations of nutrient elements in soils, grassland plants and ruminants, particularly sheep and cattle. Data are restricted to those relevant to temperate grasslands. After an introductory chapter, the next 3 chapters deal with nutrient elements in s...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Nutrient Elements in Soils
• Uptake and Concentrations of Nutrient Elements in Grassland Herbage
• Nutrient Elements in Ruminant Animals
• Nitrogen
• Phosphorus
• Sulphur
• Macronutrient Cations : Potassium, Sodium, Calcium and Magnesium
• Micronutrient Cations : Iron, Manganese, Zinc, Copper and Cobalt
• The Nutrient Halogens : Chlorine and Iodine
• Boron, Molybdenum and Selenium.