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Multi-scale Factors and Processes Controlling Selenium Distributions in Soils

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Selenium in plants

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Selenium (Se) is an essential trace element for maintaining homeostasis in humans and is characterized by a narrow range of recommended dietary intake levels. The main dietary sources of Se are food crops and therefore human intake levels largely depend on total concentrations and forms of Se in those food products. Important factors controlling Se uptake by plants are concentrations and speciation of Se in soils. Generally, Se concentrations in soils are driven by gradients in chemical and physical variables, which are in turn controlled by multiple biotic and abiotic processes that simultaneously span multiple spatial and temporal scales. This chapter discusses the factors and processes that control soil Se distributions on different spatial scales (i.e. from molecular to global scales) and how these gradients can be affected over time. In addition, it discusses how increased environmental scales lead to increased interactions among multi-scale factors and processes as well as to non-linear patterns between soil Se concentrations and environmental variables. Finally, it will be discussed how these patterns can be analyzed using sophisticated statistical techniques and how multi-scale variables and their interactions can be used to make predictions of soil Se concentrations in areas where this information is not available.

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Jones, G.D., Winkel, L.H.E. (2017). Multi-scale Factors and Processes Controlling Selenium Distributions in Soils. In: Pilon-Smits, E., Winkel, L., Lin, ZQ. (eds) Selenium in plants. Plant Ecophysiology, vol 11. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56249-0_1

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