How materials are cycled in an ecosystem The carbon cycle The water cycle The production of potable water The nitrogen cycle ...

In the water cycle, water from lakes, rivers, and oceans evaporate and enter the atmosphere where it cools, condenses into liquid water, and comes back to Earth as rain. Students have been introduced ...

Restoration of organic matter levels in soil requires an understanding of the ecological processes important for SOM storage. Proper restoration techniques can help restore terrestrial ecosystem ...

Animals feed on plants, passing the carbon compounds along the food chain. Most carbon they consume is exhaled as carbon dioxide during respiration. The animals and plants eventually die. Dead ...

Therefore, CO 2 outgassing from inland waters is assigned to terrestrial ecosystem respiration ... in conceptual models of the global carbon cycle. A broader concept of a 'boundless carbon ...

Carbon, a building block of life, is constantly moving through different environmental compartments such as biota, the atmosphere, the ocean, soil and sediment, as part of what is called ‘the global ...

As energy companies venture into alternative sources such as solar and wind, Van Wassenhove explains the need to take a life-cycle view in the energy transition ... Companies operating in complex ...

Thanks to this, the exchange of matter within the ecosystem is possible ... thanks to the nutrient cycle, are reused by the ...

Princeton University and Xiamen University researchers report that in tropical and subtropical oligotrophic waters, ocean ...