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Descriptor English: Nitrogen Cycle
Descriptor Spanish: Ciclo del Nitrógeno
Descriptor ciclo del nitrógeno
Entry term(s) amonificación
mineralización del nitrógeno
Scope note: La circulación del nitrógeno en la naturaleza, que consiste en un ciclo de reacciones bioquímicas en las que se combina el nitrógeno atmosférico, se disuelve en la lluvia y se deposita en el suelo, donde es asimilado y metabolizado por animales, plantas, bacterias y hongos, y finalmente regresa a la atmósfera por la descomposición bacteriana de la materia orgánica.
Descriptor Portuguese: Ciclo do Nitrogênio
Descriptor French: Cycle de l'azote
Entry term(s): Ammonification
Cycle, Nitrogen
Cycles, Nitrogen
Nitrogen Cycles
Tree number(s): G02.111.587
G02.607.560
G16.500.768
SP4.606.635.251.567
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D058458
Scope note: The circulation of nitrogen in nature, consisting of a cycle of biochemical reactions in which atmospheric nitrogen is compounded, dissolved in rain, and deposited in the soil, where it is assimilated and metabolized by animals, plants, bacteria, and fungi, eventually returning to the atmosphere by bacterial decomposition of organic matter.
Allowable Qualifiers: DE drug effects
GE genetics
IM immunology
PH physiology
RE radiation effects
Previous Indexing: Nitrogen (1963-2010)
Public MeSH Note: 2011
History Note: 2011
Related: Nitrogenous Deoxygenation DeCS
Soil Biology DeCS
DeCS ID: 54312
Unique ID: D058458
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Date Established: 2011/01/01
Date of Entry: 2010/06/25
Revision Date: 2016/06/23
Nitrogen Cycle - Preferred
Concept UI M0542469
Scope note The circulation of nitrogen in nature, consisting of a cycle of biochemical reactions in which atmospheric nitrogen is compounded, dissolved in rain, and deposited in the soil, where it is assimilated and metabolized by animals, plants, bacteria, and fungi, eventually returning to the atmosphere by bacterial decomposition of organic matter.
Preferred term Nitrogen Cycle
Entry term(s) Cycle, Nitrogen
Cycles, Nitrogen
Nitrogen Cycles
Ammonification - Narrower
Concept UI M000746997
Preferred term Ammonification



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