News tagged with biogeochemical cycle

Modeling microbes to manage carbon dioxide

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the past decade, microbiologists began realizing that communities of microbes process energy and materials, which affects their environments. To understand how microbial communities function ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fungus study offers insights about biogeochemical cycling, bioremediation

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory users helped fill a gap in the research community’s knowledge about the role of fungi and manganese (Mn) oxides in biogeochemical cycling and bioremediation. ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Biogeochemistry at the core of global environmental solutions

If society wants to address big picture environmental problems, like global climate change, acid rain, and coastal dead zones, we need to pay closer attention to the Earth's coupled biogeochemical cycles. ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Earth's life support systems discussed

In the search for life on Mars or any planet, there is much more than the presence of carbon and oxygen to consider. Using Earth's biogeochemical cycles as a reference point, elements like nitrogen, iron and sulfur are just ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 02, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Turkish delight for scientists who discover a new type of algae

(PhysOrg.com) -- It is less than one hundredth of a millimeter in diameter and has a delicately sculptured silica shell - meet Clipeoparvus anatolicus, a microscopic alga of a diatom genus previously unknown ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 21, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Mapping nutrient distributions over the Atlantic Ocean

Large-scale distributions of two important nutrient pools - dissolved organic nitrogen and dissolved organic phosphorus (DON and DOP) have been systematically mapped for the first time over the Atlantic Ocean in a study led ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Earth's biogeochemical cycles, once in concert, falling out of sync

(PhysOrg.com) -- What do the Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone," global climate change, and acid rain have in common? They're all a result of human impacts to Earth's biology, chemistry and geology, and the natural ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 3