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Preferred term

nitrification

Definition

  • [Henderson's] n. the oxidation of ammonium ion to nitrite, and the oxidation of nitrite to nitrate, carried out chiefly by a few groups of soil bacteria (nitrifiers), mainly genera Nitrosomonas and Nitrobacter and also by a few species of fungi.

Broader concept

Note

  • [controlled by ] Staszewski 08.06.2013

Scope note

  • US LTER controlled vocabulary

Creator

  • herbert.schentz@umweltbundesamt.at

In other languages

Arabic

  • النترتة

Bulgarian

  • Нитрификация

Croatian

  • nitrifikacija

Czech

  • nitrifikace

Danish

  • nitrifikation

Dutch

  • nitrificatie

Estonian

  • nitrifikatsioon

Finnish

  • nitrifikaatio

French

  • nitrification

German

  • Nitrifikation

Greek

  • νιτροποίηση

Hungarian

  • nitrálás

Italian

  • nitrificazione

Latvian

  • nitrifikācija

Lithuanian

  • nitrifikacija

Norwegian

  • nitrifikasjon

Polish

  • nitryfikacja

Portuguese

  • nitrificação

Romanian

  • nitrificare

Slovak

  • nitrifikácia

Slovenian

  • nitrifikacija

Spanish

  • nitrificación

Swedish

  • nitrifiering

URI

http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/20967

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