Is Tom Barr wrong?? Plant Growth, Fertilization, and Liebig's Law of the Minimum.
Channel: NickMach007
Date: 2014-07-01

In this video we'll take a closer look at plant resource limitation--that is, what do plants need to grow? And we'll examine 3 leading theories to better understand this. Liebig's Law of the Minimum, Redfield Ration, and Multiple Limitation Hypothesis. 
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Key References:
Rubio, G., Zhu, J., & Lynch, J. (2003). A critical test of the two prevailing theories of plant response to nutrient availability. American Journal of Botany, 90(1), 143--152. 

Tai, C. The opposing paradigms in resource limitation on plant growth. Retrieved from  http://post.queensu.ca/~biol953/Casper%20Christiansen%20-%20The%20opposing%20paradigms%20in%20resource%20limitation%20on%20plant%20growth.pdf

Gleeson, S., & Tillman, D. (1992). Plant Allocation and the Multiple Limitation Hypothesis.   The American Naturalist, 139, 6.

H.J.W. DE BAAR. (1994). von Liebig's Law of the Minimum and Plankton Ecology (1899-1991) Prog. Oceanography, 33, 347-386.

Gorban, A., Pokidysheva, L., Smirnova, E., & Tyukina, T. (2011). Law of the Minimum Paradoxes. Bull Math Biol, 73, 2013--2044.

LIEBIG, J. V. (1855). Die Grundsa¨tze der agricultur-chemie mit Ru¨cksicht auf die in Englend angestellten Untersuchchungen. Friedrich Vieweg and Sohn, Braunschweig, Germany.

All References: 
van der Ploeg, R.R., Bo¨hm, W., Kirkham, M.B. (1999). On the Origin of the Theory of Mineral Nutrition of Plants and the Law of the Minimum, Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J, 63, 1055--1062. 

Ågren, G., Martin Wetterstedt, J.A., & Billberger, M. (2012). Nutrient limitation on terrestrial plant growth -- modeling the interaction between nitrogen and phosphorus. New Phytologist, 194, 953--960.

Farrior, C., Tilman, D., Dybzinski, R., Reich, P., Levin, S., & Pacala, S. (2013). Resource limitation in a competitive context determines complex plant responses to experimental resource additions. Ecology, 94, 11. 

Townsend, S., Schult, J., Douglas, M., & Skinner, S. (2008). Does the Redfield ratio infer nutrient limitation in the macroalga Spirogyra fluviatilis? Freshwater Biology, March, 509--520. 

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http://www.aquariumlife.com.au/showthread.php/17617-Redfield-ratio?s=4283a4f41f520e1be3ee163a94be4fe0

http://www.plantedtank.net/forums/showthread.php?t=68605

http://forum.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/showthread.php?t=32981&page=4

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http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?255875-(Utricularia-grammifolia)-UG-and-EI-dosing

http://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/detailed-description-effects-of-n-p-and-k.28363/

http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?229059-A-look-at-GH-and-magnesium

http://www.aquascapingworld.com/threads/pmdd-and-calcium-chloride.5584/

http://www.aquaticplantcentral.com/forumapc/fertilizing/5005-pps-technical-discussion-thread-8.html

http://www.barrreport.com/showthread.php/7140-Required-reading-Tropica-s-article-on-CO2-and-light

http://www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/336801-the-redfield-ratio/

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