By Team Aakash Byju's
All organisms are composed of nutrients and it is important to recycle and replace nutrients constantly for life to exist.
Plants cannot take atmospheric nitrogen and it has to be fixed and converted to ammonium and nitrate for uptake, which is done by nutrient cycling by transformating nutrients from one form to another.
Through the biogeochemical cycle valuable elements such as carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, phosphorus and nitrogen that are essential to life are recycled by nutrition cycle.
When plants and animals ingest nutrients from the soil, they die and decompose, releasing nutrients into the ecosystem, which helps nutrients that connects live species with non-living organisms.
The rate of biological production can be controlled by nutrient cycling through biotic reservoirs that are related with the atmosphere, land and ocean.
Through the carbon cycle the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is also influenced.
The movement of chemical elements through various media, such as soil, rocks, bodies of water and animals, nutrient cycles maintain the availability of critical components to plants and other species.