Nutrient resorption in the wetland marshes
Student Name: Derrick Contreras. UCD Department: Environmental Science and Policy. UCD Mentor: Emily Carlson.
Nutrient resorption is the process that certain plants undergo to
provide the rest of the plant with nutrients where these
nutrients are not readily available. In nitrogen limited areas,
plants will in a sense split themselves in half and allow one
side to live and the other to die or naturally senesce. Through
nutrient resorption this provides the living portion of the plant
with the nitrogen from the dying part so that part of the plant
will live instead of the whole plant dying of nutrient
starvation.
