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Resource Number: 17090
Title: Trees & Nitrogen: Basic Principals
Description: Described in its most basic form, a tree is a collection of carbon chains with a few other elements attached. There are many elements required for successful tree life. Some elements are needed in much higher proportions than others. What elements a tree requires for life may not be readily available within the environment in which it stands. Within terrestrial environments, usable nitrogen is usually in short supply — if not the most growth-limiting of all essential elements. Nitrogen is one of the key connectors between, and modifiers of, carbon chains. Nitrogen affects molecular interactions, compound shapes and functions, and chemical symmetry of life-maintaining materials. In ecosystems, usable nitrogen is the most precious of elements — carefully used, relentlessly recycled, and biologically hoarded. If carbon represents the structure of life, nitrogen is the ignition key. Energy bound within organic carbons can only be held and retrieved by utilizing nitrogen.
Last Updated: July 5, 2021
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