EnvThes
deprecated concept
[controlled by ] Staszewski 08.06.2013
US LTER controlled vocabulary
[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.
nitrification