Phosphorus is an essential nutrient that often limits how ecosystems function, both in natural landscapes and in managed farmland worldwide. A new infographic illustrates the unequal distribution of phosphorus around the world and highlights four soil environments with very different phosphorus availability, explaining the key processes that shape them.
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The infographic is based on scientific analysis of thousands of soil measurements with the help of machine learning (He et al. 2021, He et al. 2023). The infographic, designed by Marianne Trocot, is available for non-commercial use.