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Curr Biol
May 2024
College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA 5042, Australia.
Soil health is crucial for all terrestrial life, supporting, among other processes, food production, water purification and carbon sequestration. Soil biodiversity - the variety of life within soils - is key to these processes and thus key to soil restoration. Human activities that degrade ecosystems threaten soil biodiversity and associated ecosystem processes.
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April 2023
School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Nanyang Technological University, 637459, Singapore.
Biochar, derived from unused biomass, is widely considered for its potential to deal with climate change problems. Global interest in biochar is attributed to its ability to sequester carbon in soil and to remediate aquatic environment from water pollution. As soil conditioner and/or adsorbent, biochar offers opportunity through a circular economy (CE) paradigm.
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June 2010
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
December 2009
Department of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
Although the quantitative description of biological systems has been going on for centuries, recent advances in the measurement of phenomena ranging from metabolism to gene expression to signal transduction have resulted in a new emphasis on biological numeracy. This article describes the confluence of two different approaches to biological numbers. First, an impressive array of quantitative measurements make it possible to develop intuition about biological numbers ranging from how many gigatons of atmospheric carbon are fixed every year in the process of photosynthesis to the number of membrane transporters needed to provide sugars to rapidly dividing Escherichia coli cells.
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