Nutrient Cycling Flashcards

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What’s nutrients cycling?

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  • Where nutrients stored
  • how nutrients get into plants
  • nutrients animals?
  • nutrients back reservoirs
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C- cycle

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Reservoirs: main= atmosphere CO2, other = dead organisms

Into plants: photosynthesis

Into animals : eat

Into reservoirs: cellular respiration

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N- cycle

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Reservoirs: main = atmosphere N2
Other = dissolved in ocean N2, soil

Into plants : bac in root nodules, add H or O

Into animals: eat

Into reservoirs: in low oxygen bac release N2

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Limiting factor

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  • variables limit growth l, abundance, distribution organisms or pop in area

(Eg iron in ocean )

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