Liebig's Law of the Minimum, often simply called Liebig's Law or the Law of the Minimum, is a principle developed in agricultural science by Carl Sprengel (1828) and later popularized by Justus von Liebig. It states that growth is controlled not by the total amount of resources available, but by the scarcest resource (limiting factor).
ApplicationsThis concept was originally applied to plant or crop growth, where it was found that increasing the amount of plentiful nutrients did not increase plant growth. Only by increasing the amount of the limiting nutrient (the one most scarce in relation to "need") was the growth of a plant or crop improved. This principle can be summed up in the aphorism, "The availability of the most abundant nutrient in the soil is as the availability of the least abundant nutrient in the soil."
最小养分律？
最小养分率是德国化学家李比西提出来的。他曾说过：如果土壤中某一种必需养分不足，或者缺乏的时候，即使其他养分都存在，这种土壤仍将成为不毛之地。也就是说，在某种土壤中限制产量的因子是其中最为不足的一种养分。最小养分律提醒我们，在施肥时应找出最影响作物产量的缺乏养分，以及各种必须养分之间的适当比例的关系。最小养分不是固定不变的，解决了某种最小养分之后，另外某种养分可能上升为最小养分