EnvThes
type: ConceptScheme

deprecated concept
type: Concept

nitrification
type: Concept
in scheme: EnvThes
note: [controlled by ] Staszewski 08.06.2013
scope note: US LTER controlled vocabulary
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: deprecated concept
deprecated: true