For the condition in plants, see Magnesium deficiency (plants). Magnesium deficiency or hypomagnesia (not to be confused with hypomagnesemia) refers to inadequate intake of dietary magnesium or impaired absorption of magnesium, which can result in numerous symptoms and diseases. It is generally corrected by an increase of magnesium in diet, oral supplements, and in severe cases, intravenous supplementation.
The first point of interest is that in this section of the Pacific coast, more particularly in southern and central California, there is a very definite breeding season for the pocket gopher which coincides closely with the beginning of the rainy season.n the valleys and along the foothills of California, green vegetation, particularly the alfilaria and malva, which are two of the most important food plants of the gopher, begin to grow at once upon the arrival of the earliest fall rains. The abundance of nutritious green food starts the gophers breeding.
Gophers are industrious tunnel builders. Most gopher tunnels are 2-1/2 to 3-1/2 inches (6 to 9 cm) in diameter at a depth of 12 to 18 inches (30 to 45 cm). This is below the root zone of newly planted seedlings but in the prime root zone of well-established annual plants.It is also in the prime growth zone of recently planted shrubs and roses. single gopher can build hundreds of feet (well over 100 meters) of tunnels over 200 to 2500 square feet (20 to 200 square meters) area. Weeks or months of feeding result in the creation of a dead zone above the gopherâs feeding ground as a gopher will eat the roots of every plant in its feeding territory.