Crop yields were ultimately limited by factors other than mineral nutrients, especially light.

You also lose the time-release quality of returning mineral nutrients to the ground.

Snails can absorb mineral nutrients through their foot by simply sitting on a rock containing it.

Plants must obtain the following mineral nutrients from the growing media:

Nitrogen is a critical limiting mineral nutrient in plant growth.

Plants benefit by getting essential mineral nutrients and carbon dioxide.

Most mineral nutrients, on the other hand, are recycled within ecosystems.

Plant roots will generally grow in any direction where the correct environment of air, mineral nutrients and water exists to meet the plant's needs.

The process is regulated by food web pathways that decompose matter into mineral nutrients.

Bodies of dead worms passively contribute mineral nutrients to the soil.