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From the beginning of the colonization of the land surface by plants, rain must have been a source of nutrients. There are global cycles in both the water and salts of the oceans; it takes a period of about 80 million years to transport the ocean salt, by means of sprays and aerosols, over the edges of the continents (HOLMES 1937) and 5000 years to transport the ocean water. In addition to the ocean, chemical transformations of nitrogen in the atmosphere and geological upheavals such as volcanoes can provide a wide variety of plant nutrients in gaseous, dissolved, and particulate forms. The rates at which these nutrients are deposited on the land surface are highly variable and depend on climate and prevailing wind direction. At most, however, they can support only very slow rates of plant growth. Plant communities, such as raised Sphagnum bogs, which are almost totally dependent on the atmosphere for their nutrients, have intrinsically low rates of biomass production (PEARSALL and GOREHAM 1956; PAKARINEN 1978).
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Clarkson, D.T., Kuiper, P.J.C., Lüttge, U. (1986). Mineral Nutrition: Sources of Nutrients for Land Plants from Outside the Pedosphere. In: Behnke, HD., Esser, K., Kubitzki, K., Runge, M., Ziegler, H. (eds) Progress in Botany. Progress in Botany/Fortschritte der Botanik, vol 48. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71668-3_5
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