Smithsonian Scientist Ben Turner Excavates Jurien Dunes Soil Profile (IMAGE)

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Smithsonian Scientist Ben Turner Excavates Jurien Dunes Soil Profile

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Ben Turner, staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, would like to know how some of the world's worst soils in southwestern Australia support a great diversity of plants. Discoveries about nutrient uptake by plants in poor soils could make it possible for people to grow crops on degraded land everywhere.

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