Nutrients are elements that plants require for growth. In most terrestrial ecosystems, a lack of essential nutrients may limit plant primary productivity. Net primary productivity (NPP), other ecosystem processes, and ecosystem structure and function...

The term biogeochemical cycle refers to any set of changes that occur as a particular element passes back and forth between the living and non-living worlds. For example, carbon occurs sometimes in the form of an atmospheric gas (carbon dioxide),...

Cycles in which the nutrients are transferred from living organisms to the environment and back to living organisms through decomposition processes in or on the...

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In ecology and Earth science, a biogeochemical cycle is a circuit or pathway by which a chemical element or molecule moves through both biotic ("bio-") and abiotic ("geo-") compartments of an ecosystem. In effect, the element is recycled, although in...

Many readers will be substantially better informed about biogeochemical cycling in the climate system after delving into this wideranging book. That has certainly been the case for this reviewer in what has been an enjoyable, though not always easy, reading experience. The volume...

Since the Earth first came into existence environmental change has involved the redistribution of elements and compounds via biogeochemical cycles. Such cycles link the lithosphere, biosphere and atmosphere within reciprocal relationships. These relationships have been profoundly altered by human activity but remain reciprocal. Examples...