Preferred term
biogeochemical process
Definition
- closed cycle described by elements found in living material, such as carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and sulphur, as they pass from within organisms (biotic phase) into the non-living environment (abiotic phase) and back again. alt. nutrient cycle.
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- absorption
- accretion
- adiabatic cooling
- advection
- aerosol cloud interaction
- aerosol dynamics
- ammonia volatilization
- ammonium depostion
- atmospheric circulation
- atmospheric deposition
- atmospheric process
- base cations leaching
- bulk deposition
- carbon budget
- carbon cycle
- carbon dioxide emission
- carbon dynamics
- chemical process
- chemical reaction
- chemical weathering
- chloride deposition
- climatic change
- convection
- deposition
- depostion of inorganic anions
- desertification
- dispersion
- dry deposition
- energy budget
- energy flux
- energy intake
- energy storage
- energy_input
- energy_output
- energy_storage
- environmental change
- erosion
- gas flux
- geological process
- global carbon cycle
- greenhouse gas fluxes
- heavy metal deposition
- land cover change
- land degradation
- landscape change
- landscape dynamics
- landscape evolution
- leaching
- lead deposition
- matter budget
- matter input
- matter output
- matter storage
- mineralization
- nitrate deposition
- nitrate leaching
- nitrogen cycle
- nitrogen deposition
- nitrogen dry deposition
- nitrogen exportation from crop
- nitrogen immobilisation
- nitrogen immobilised by soil microbial biomass
- nitrogen metabolism
- nitrogen mineralization of soil organic matter
- nitrogen nitrified in soil
- nitrogen wet deposition
- nitrous oxide flux
- north atlantic oscillation
- north pacific oscillation
- nutrient cycle
- nutrient cycling
- ocean circulation
- oxygen consumption
- oxygen transfer
- ozone deposition
- pacific decadal oscillation
- particle deposition
- pH deposition
- physical process
- pleistocene glaciation
- runoff
- salt stress
- salt tolerance
- sediment accumulation
- sediment transport
- sedimentation
- soil disturbance
- soil erosion
- soil nitrate flow
- soil warming
- subsidence
- sulfate deposition
- weathering
- wet deposition
Scope note
- US LTER controlled vocabulary
Creator
- herbert.schentz@umweltbundesamt.at
URI
http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/20950