Calcium Oxalate: Occurrence in Soils and Effect on Nutrient and Geochemical Cycles
- 23 December 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 198 (4323), 1252-1254
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.198.4323.1252
Abstract
Whewellite and weddellite, calcium salts of oxalic acid, have been found in the litter layer of several different soils, indicating that oxalate is a major metabolic product of fungi in natural environments. The presence of oxalate in soil solution speeds weathering of soil minerals and increases the availability of nutrients to vegetation.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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