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Nutrient cycle

A nutrient cycle (or ecological recycling) is the movement and exchange of inorganic and organic matter back into the production of matter. Energy flow is a unidirectional and noncyclic pathway, whereas the movement of mineral nutrients is cyclic. Mineral cycles include the carbon cycle, sulfur cycle, nitrogen cycle, water cycle, phosphorus cycle, oxygen…

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Ecological recycling

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Recycling in novel ecosystems

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Nutrient cycle

Nodes99
Edges98
Triples30
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.020202
Components1

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Nutrient cycle

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related to overview · 11
Nutrient cycle → All, Earth, Ecosystems, From, However, Most, Nutrient, Recycling, The, There, While
related to Variations in terminology · 11
Nutrient cycle → Fish, Fluvial, Following, For, However, In, Other, The, These, Vernadsky, While

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recycling ecological nutrient nutrients organic ecosystem ecosystems cycle cycling systems water nitrogen natural materials phosphorus different matter also material waste

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the competitive dominance of certain plant speciesinstance ofwhich creates a complex feedback on factors0.80text
nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria will be less competitive since inorganic nitrogen is already abundantinstance oforganisms0.80text
favoring species that depend on direct uptake of ammonium or nitrateinstance oforganisms0.80text
Daphnia will have a competitive advantage because of their larger sizeinstance ofspecies0.80text
higher phosphorus requirement for growthinstance ofspecies0.80text
zooplanktoninstance ofConsumers0.80text
fish also excrete ammonium as a waste productinstance ofConsumers0.80text
phosphate during metabolic processesinstance ofConsumers0.80text
Nutrient cyclerelated to overviewThe0.60section
Nutrient cyclerelated to overviewAll0.60section
Nutrient cyclerelated to overviewRecycling0.60section
Nutrient cyclerelated to overviewEcosystems0.60section

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