See biogeochemical cycle.
The uptake, use, release, and storage of nutrients by plants and their environments; the transformation of inorganic compounds into organic forms due to biological uptake, and then back to an inorganic state (D. Allen and M. Castillo 2009). The nutrient cycle is the main functional process maintaining the stability and production of an ecosystem, and land cover is the source and sink of the material and energy supporting the biosphere.
Nutrient cycle
- tooth
- top
- loon
- loop
- loop antenna
- loopback address
- loop direction finding
- loop error
- loop gain
- looping
- loop invariant
- loop of Henle
- loop prominence
- loop reactor
- loop signals
- loop variable
- loose coupling
- loosely coupled multiprocessor
- LOPA
- Lopez-Alegria, Michael Eladio (1958– )
- lophodont
- lophophore
- Lophotrochozoa
- lopolith
- Lopstedt