When it Comes to "Feeding" Mountains, Dust Dwarfs Dirt (6 of 7) (IMAGE)

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When it Comes to "Feeding" Mountains, Dust Dwarfs Dirt (6 of 7)

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Trees growing atop the Bald Mountain Granite in the southern Sierra Nevada, like the one pictured here, likely rely on nutrients from windblown dust more so than underlying bedrock. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 06 December 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by L.J. Arvin at University of Wyoming in Laramie, WY, and colleagues was titled, "Global patterns of dust and bedrock nutrient supply to montane ecosystems."

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[Credit: Lindsay Arvin]

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