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As the world tries to mitigate agriculture’s effect on the environment, much of the story can be found in the soils, which stores and cycles nutrient elements of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus. Biogeochemist are set to find answers, but, the challenge is first being able to accurately measure where phosphorus has accumulated in the <100 years since humans began to increase the amount of the nutrient element in the biosphere.