Geochemical Soil Atlas of Switzerland - Distribution of Toxic Elements.

Chemical elements such as copper and molybdenum are essential for animal and human health but may become toxic at elevated concentrations depending on the exposure and intake rate. Other elements such as mercury pose a threat to human health at already low concentrations. The soil acts as the main source of these elements for plant uptake and is thus driving accumulation along the food chain.

Soil phosphorus status and P nutrition strategies of European beech forests on carbonate compared to silicate parent material.

Unlabelled: Sustainable forest management requires understanding of ecosystem phosphorus (P) cycling. Lang et al. (2017) [ https://doi.