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Cyclic movement of nitrogen in different chemical forms from the environment, to organisms, and then back to the environment. (source: EPA)

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You can help Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Schematic representation of the flow of Nitrogen through the environment. The importance of bacteria in the cycle is immediately recognized as being a key element in the cycle, providing different forms of nitrogen compounds assimilable by higher organisms. See Martinus Beijerinck.

The nitrogen cycle is the biogeochemical cycle that describes the transformations of nitrogen and nitrogen-containing compounds in nature.

Climate change: What's in the rising tide?  -  Oct 17, 2007
Nature.com (subscription),The nitrogen cycle rarely features in the grim litany of things at risk from global warming. Nick Lane reports on research that might change this — with

Liberals would sell SaskFerco  -  Oct 19, 2007
Regina Leader-Post,..."We are at the top of the nitrogen cycle. This is an excellent time to sell SaskFerco." As part of the plan, the Liberals would provide $100 million each to

Pasturing Cows Convert Soil To A Source Of Methane, Potent ...  -  Oct 12, 2007
Science Daily (press release)...“We shall continue the project, because we also suspect consequences for the nitrogen cycle,� adds Schloter. “In addition, we have possibly proved a very

One Frog, Two Fish, Red Leg, Few Fish: Stress in the Aquatic ...  -  Oct 9, 2007
Animal Lab News,In re-circulating systems, because of the nitrogen cycle and the presence of CO2, the pH naturally begins a downward shift. This can be corrected with

Humble scientist recognised  -  Oct 12, 2007
Waikato Times,His work on the nitrogen cycle in forests led to work on forest ecosystems, and encouraging the planting of native forests. He is a firm believer in farmers

New Enzyme, Vitamin C Offer Potential for Sustainable Crop Yield ...  -  Sep 24, 2007
Associated Content,...to ecosystems because they act as decomposers. Some also have the ability to fix nitrogen in the soil and so are part of the ecological nitrogen cycle.

No whine from California wineries so far  -  Oct 3, 2007
ZDNet...there may be changes in the basic process of how the vines get their nutrition from the soil if the nitrogen cycle is affected by atmospheric changes.

Backpacking in Southeast Asia  -  Sep 26, 2007
Carroll County Comet,The other day I was teaching my students about the nitrogen cycle and using elephant dung as an example. I soon found myself telling them about an elephant

Nitrogen overload concerns ecologist  -  Aug 12, 2007
San Jose Mercury News,..."The changes to the nitrogen cycle are larger in magnitude and more profound than the changes to the carbon cycle," Holland continued.

Curtailment sought in nitrogen  -  Aug 13, 2007
Los Angeles Daily News,..."The changes to the nitrogen cycle are larger in magnitude and more profound than the changes to the carbon cycle," Holland said. "But the nitrogen cycle is

Nitrate study promising  -  Jul 20, 2007
Stuff.co.nz,Cameron said new research by the team of 10 would focus on learning more about the nitrogen cycle to find better ways to manage it so nitrate leaching

Fish crisis looming large  -  Aug 3, 2007
The Daily Star,Though less familiar but the havoc wreaked on the nitrogen cycle is worth recounting here. Through the use of fertilizers, the burning of fossil fuels and

The rain, the pond…and other things  -  Apr 4, 2007
Comox Valley Record,It’s all a part of what we call the nitrogen cycle. We used to attribute an algae bloom in the pond after a thunderstorm to fertilizer run-off,

At Home in ‘Rocco’s Lab’  -  Mar 29, 2007
Space.com...studies of the halophiles: studies of the nitrogen cycle, how nitrogen is fixed and released in soils in dry, high altitude Mars analogues.

Recycle the economy: Reuse  -  Apr 5, 2007
Bowdoin Orient,For one, recycling is not an infinitely repeated process like the nitrogen cycle. A piece of plastic or paper can only go through so many permutations of

Guest view: Dude, don’t you even care?  -  Mar 14, 2007
Winona Daily News,You might have learned the nitrogen cycle in science class, but I’m sure your parents learned how to garden outside of school. Your teachers know a lot more

Guest view: Dude, don’t you even care?  -  15 Mar 2007
Winona Daily News,You might have learned the nitrogen cycle in science class, but I’m sure your parents learned how to garden outside of school. Your teachers know a lot more

General Grant, Jimmy Hoffa and Jesus Christ are buried where?  -  Mar 7, 2007
North Lake Tahoe Bonanza,Just take a look at the nitrogen cycle; you can't see it, but nitrogen rains down from the heavens and feeds the plants. A cow eats the plants,

Soil fertility workshop Friday at Monmouth Farm Bureau site  -  Feb 21, 2007
The Register-Mail,Topics to be addressed include nutrient placement, soil acidity and liming, potassium fertility of corn and soybean, nitrogen and the nitrogen cycle,

Fish heads  -  Feb 22, 2007
Anchorage Daily News (subscription),..."It's a natural nitrogen cycle." The federal government requires dumped fish waste to be ground into half-inch bits, and state regulators say Berger

Nitrogen losses could be cut by up to 70%  -  Nov 21, 2006
Radio New Zealand,They are used to moderate the nitrogen cycle and reduce losses in grazing farming systems through nitrous oxide emissions and nitrate leaching.

Nitrogen inhibitors developed  -  Nov 23, 2006
Stuff.co.nz,The inhibitors help moderate the nitrogen cycle and reduce nitrate and nitrous-oxide losses that occur in grazed farm systems.

Full Text  -  Nov 23, 2006
Science Magazine (subscription)An anaerobic organism that digests ammonia, first described in 1999, represents a major part of the nitrogen cycle that had been missed during a century of

Global gene expression of Prochlorococcus ecotypes in response to ...  -  Oct 4, 2006
Nature.com (subscription),Science 311: 1737–1740. Lipschultz F (2001) A time-series assessment of the nitrogen cycle at BATS. Deep-Sea Res II 48: 1897–1924. ...

MBL scientists to present results of long-term ecological research ...  -  Sep 18, 2006
EurekAlert (press release),WOODS HOLE, MA-- The importance of fungi in the Arctic nitrogen cycle, an acoustic tracking program to monitor striped bass movements in a Massachusetts estuary ...

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