Nitrogen is one of the primary nutrients critical for the survival of all living organisms. Although nitrogen is very abundant in the atmosphere, it is largely inaccessible in this form to most ...

Natural cycles and decomposition - Edexcel Materials such as carbon, nitrogen and water are recycled in the ecosystem. When organisms die, decomposition will recycle minerals and nutrients back to ...

We have heard the saying: 'April showers brings May flowers.' This proverb leaves out the critical role of lightning.

Living organisms are primarily made of six elements: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus. And each of these important elements cycle through the Earth system. Ecosystems ...

Alpine ecosystems have tremendous variation in soil resource ... the influence of symbiotic N2-fixation in the alpine nitrogen cycle and its influence on species diversity, and plant species ...