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The 65 pages that link to Nitrogen cycle, each with the reason it gives.
EutrophicationRelated: Nitrogen transformations determine how much biologically available nutrient reaches water.
AmmoniaNarrower topic: Ammonia is a central intermediate in biological and human-altered nitrogen flows.
Nitrogen fixationNarrower topic: Fixation is the cycle’s entry route from atmospheric nitrogen into reactive forms.
Green RevolutionNarrower topic: Heavy synthetic nitrogen use altered nutrient flows and contributed to pollution.
Nutrient cyclingBroader topic: Nitrogen illustrates how fixation, uptake, decomposition, and loss connect cycle stages.
AnthropoceneNarrower topic: Industrial fertilizer production and use have substantially altered nitrogen flows and left sedimentary signals.
NitrogenNarrower topic: It traces how nitrogen changes form and moves through ecosystems.
Soil fertilityBroader topic: Nitrogen fixation, mineralization, and losses determine how much soil nitrogen crops can access.
Nitrous oxideNarrower topic: Microbial steps in the nitrogen cycle generate most naturally occurring and agricultural nitrous oxide.
FertilizerRelated: Soil microbes transform fertilizer nitrogen into forms plants can use or lose.
Ocean deoxygenationRelated: Low-oxygen conditions alter microbial nitrogen transformations and can increase nitrogen loss from ecosystems.
Biogeochemical cycleBroader topic: It governs how usable nitrogen reaches ecosystems and how reactive nitrogen accumulates.
UreaNarrower topic: Urea carries biologically processed nitrogen back into soils and ecosystems.
Anaerobic respirationRelated: Denitrifying respiration returns biologically available nitrogen to the atmosphere.
Phosphorus cycleCompared with: Unlike phosphorus, nitrogen has a large atmospheric reservoir and a major gaseous phase.
Biological nitrogen fixationNarrower topic: Fixation is the main natural route that brings atmospheric nitrogen into many ecosystems.
NitrateNarrower topic: Nitrate is one of the cycle’s mobile, biologically available forms of nitrogen.
Fritz HaberNarrower topic: Haber’s process intervened in the natural cycle by adding reactive nitrogen at industrial scale.
Haber processNarrower topic: Industrial fixation adds reactive nitrogen to natural cycles on a scale comparable to biological fixation.
Nutrient pollutionNarrower topic: It explains how reactive nitrogen reaches ecosystems and changes form after release.
Aquarium fishRelated: Beneficial microbes process toxic fish waste through this cycle.
NitrificationNarrower topic: Nitrification is one microbial transformation within this larger cycle.
Nitrogen fertilizerNarrower topic: Soil transformations in the nitrogen cycle determine which fertilizer forms plants can absorb.
Greenhouse gas emissions from agricultureNarrower topic: It explains how applied nitrogen can become nitrous oxide.
MicroorganismRelated: Microorganisms perform essential transformations such as nitrogen fixation and denitrification.
Soil microbiomeRelated: Soil microorganisms mediate nitrogen fixation, nitrification, and denitrification.
Carbon-14Related: Atmospheric nitrogen supplies the nuclei from which natural carbon-14 is produced.
GuanoRelated: Guano concentrates biologically cycled nitrogen into material that can enrich farmland.
Plant nutritionNarrower topic: Plant nitrogen supply depends on transformations in the wider nitrogen cycle.
Soil microbiologyRelated: Soil microbes mediate nitrogen fixation, mineralization, nitrification, and denitrification.
AquariumRelated: In aquariums, microbes convert toxic ammonia into nitrite and then less harmful nitrate.
DecomposerRelated: Decomposition releases nitrogen compounds that other organisms can use.
Carl BoschRelated: Industrial fixation added large quantities of reactive nitrogen to natural cycles.
Carnivorous plantRelated: Prey provides nitrogen that nutrient-poor habitats often fail to supply.
ManureRelated: Manure returns biologically available nitrogen to soils, where it can change form or escape.
BiogeochemistryBroader topic: Microbial transformations make nitrogen available to organisms and return it to the atmosphere.
NitrogenaseNarrower topic: Nitrogenase introduces biologically available nitrogen into the cycle.
EricaceaeRelated: Ericaceae depend on nitrogen acquisition strategies suited to soils where nitrogen is scarce.
Synthetic fertilizerNarrower topic: Fertilizer nitrogen enters this wider cycle, where it can nourish crops or escape into the environment.
Ammonium sulfateRelated: Soil microbes transform ammonium from this fertilizer into other forms of nitrogen.
AquaponicsRelated: Aquaponics relies on microbial steps in this cycle to move nitrogen from waste to plants.
FrankiaNarrower topic: Frankia fixation introduces atmospheric nitrogen into the biological nitrogen cycle.
Microbial dark matterBroader topic: Uncultured microbes may carry genes for nitrogen transformations in ecosystems.
Nitrous acidNarrower topic: Nitrite and related nitrogen species occur as intermediates in this cycle.
Ostwald processNarrower topic: The process industrially fixes and transforms nitrogen into biologically available compounds.
Ammonia synthesisRelated: Industrial fixation adds reactive nitrogen at a scale that alters the global cycle.
Sodium nitrateRelated: Nitrate from this salt enters the biological nitrogen cycle after agricultural use.
Great AccelerationRelated: Synthetic fertilizer and combustion sharply increased human alteration of nitrogen flows.
Human impact on the environmentRelated: Fertilizer production and use add reactive nitrogen and alter this global cycle.
Agricultural landRelated: Fertilizer use on farmland alters nitrogen flows and can pollute air and water.