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The Nitrogen
Biogeochemical Cycle

(redrawn from Eugene P. Odum's Fundamentals of Ecology
W.B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia, 1959)

Imagine that you are an atom of nitrogen. Find a comfortable spot on the chart below and enjoy migrating throughout the ecosystem. Be careful about ending up in mud at the bottom of the ocean...

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