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The 83 pages that link to Nutrient cycling, each with the reason it gives.

• HerbivoryRelated: Herbivores redistribute plant nutrients through waste, feeding, and movement.

• FloodplainRelated: Floodwater redistributes nutrients between rivers and floodplain soils.

• Tropical rainforestRelated: Nutrients are often stored in living biomass and recycled quickly after decay.

• Marine food webRelated: Feeding, excretion, and decomposition return nutrients that support marine production.

• DecompositionRelated: Decomposition returns nutrients to cycles after organisms die.

• Amazon rainforestRelated: Rapid nutrient recycling supports forest growth where many soils are poor.

• WeatheringRelated: Mineral weathering releases elements that can enter ecosystems as nutrients.

• Fire ecologyRelated: Burning can release, redistribute, or remove nutrients from ecosystems.

• Freshwater ecosystemRelated: Nutrient movement links freshwater organisms to water, sediments, and surrounding land.

• BurrowingRelated: Excavation and waste deposition can relocate nutrients between soil layers.

• BioturbationRelated: Particle mixing and irrigation alter where nutrients are released, consumed, and reused.

• PedosphereRelated: Soil mediates nutrient storage and release across ecosystems.

• SavannaRelated: Fire and grazing redistribute nutrients through savanna soils and vegetation.

• Old-growth forestRelated: Decomposing wood returns nutrients to soils and supports persistent forest productivity.

• Riparian zoneRelated: Periodic inundation and plant growth move and transform nutrients between land and water.

• AgroecologyRelated: Farms can reduce external inputs by managing nutrient flows through ecological processes.

• Aquatic food webRelated: Feeding links transfer nutrients as well as energy through aquatic ecosystems.

• Soil food webRelated: Feeding and decomposition release nutrients that can be reused by plants and microbes.

• TermiteRelated: Termite feeding and mound building redistribute nutrients through soils and ecosystems.

• Seabird colonyRelated: Guano and discarded prey move marine nutrients into terrestrial habitats.

• EarthwormRelated: Earthworms accelerate nutrient transformations by consuming litter and depositing casts.

• Marine sedimentRelated: Reactions at the sediment-water boundary return or retain nutrients in marine systems.

• Freshwater ecologyRelated: Freshwater organisms and sediments store, transform, and release nutrients.

• Soil healthRelated: Soil organisms make nutrients available to plants and return them through decomposition.

• Agricultural biodiversityRelated: Microorganisms and soil fauna make nutrients available to crops.

• Lake turnoverRelated: Mixing transports nutrients between lake sediments, deep water, and surface waters.

• Soil biodiversityRelated: Soil organisms regulate how nutrients become available to plants and other life.

• Lake TanganyikaRelated: Nutrient recycling connects deep sediments, plankton, and fish production.

• Tropical forestRelated: Rapid nutrient recycling lets many forests thrive on weathered soils.

• CompostRelated: Compost returns nutrients from organic residues to soils and growing systems.

• Pacific salmonRelated: Salmon carry marine-derived nutrients into freshwater and surrounding terrestrial ecosystems.

• DetritusRelated: Decomposition returns detritus-bound nutrients to forms organisms can use again.

• Forest ecologyRelated: Decomposition and uptake determine how forests retain and redistribute nutrients.

• Baleen whaleRelated: Whales redistribute nutrients through feeding, excretion, and migration between ocean regions.

• LimnologyRelated: Nutrient movement connects catchments, water columns, sediments, and aquatic food webs.

• ScavengerRelated: By consuming carcasses, scavengers return nutrients to food webs and ecosystems.

• Food chainRelated: Nutrients pass through chain organisms and are recycled after their death.

• MegaherbivoreRelated: Dung and urine redistribute nutrients across the areas megaherbivores use.

• Deposit feedingRelated: Sediment processing affects how nutrients are retained, released, and recycled.

• Meromictic lakeRelated: Restricted exchange changes how nutrients accumulate and move between deep and surface layers.

• Forest soilRelated: Forest soils store nutrients and release them as litter and roots decompose.

• Lake MalawiRelated: Nutrient circulation links deep sediments, plankton, and fish production.

• Aquatic ecologyRelated: Explains how aquatic ecosystems reuse nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus.

• DeadwoodRelated: Decomposition returns nutrients held in wood to forest soils and living organisms.

• Flood pulseRelated: Floodwaters transport and redistribute nutrients between rivers and floodplain ecosystems.

• HeathlandRelated: Slow nutrient turnover and leaching help sustain heathland's nutrient-poor conditions.

• Integrated multi-trophic aquacultureRelated: Waste nutrients from fed organisms can support extractive crops.

• MarshRelated: Flooding and plant uptake regulate nutrient availability in marsh soils.

• American shadRelated: Migrating shad transport marine-derived nutrients into freshwater systems.

• Livestock grazingRelated: Dung and urine return nutrients to grazed land, unevenly distributing them across pastures.