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    Biogeochemical cycles describe the movement of chemical elements through biotic and abiotic components of Earth. Key cycles include carbon, nitrogen, water, phosphorus and sulfur. Chemicals circulate between living organisms, soils, oceans, atmosphere and geologic reservoirs. Energy from the sun also drives these cycles, though the chemicals themselves are recycled rather than replenished. Biogeochemical cycles operate at global scales and involve reservoirs that store chemicals for long periods and exchange pools that cycle them in living things.

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    Biogeochemical cycles describe the movement of chemical elements through biotic and abiotic components of Earth. Key cycles include carbon, nitrogen, water, phosphorus and sulfur. Chemicals circulate between living organisms, soils, oceans, atmosphere and geologic reservoirs. Energy from the sun also drives these cycles, though the chemicals themselves are recycled rather than replenished. Biogeochemical cycles operate at global scales and involve reservoirs that store chemicals for long periods and exchange pools that cycle them in living things.

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    Biogeochemical cycles describe the movement of chemical elements through biotic and abiotic components of Earth. Key cycles include carbon, nitrogen, water, phosphorus and sulfur. Chemicals circulate between living organisms, soils, oceans, atmosphere and geologic reservoirs. Energy from the sun also drives these cycles, though the chemicals themselves are recycled rather than replenished. Biogeochemical cycles operate at global scales and involve reservoirs that store chemicals for long periods and exchange pools that cycle them in living things.

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    Biogeochemical cycle

    An illustration of the oceanic whale pump showing how whales cycle nutrients through the water column

    In ecology and Earth science, a biogeochemical cycle or substance turnover or cycling of substances is a pathway by which a chemical substance moves through biotic (biosphere) and
    abiotic (lithosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere) compartments of Earth. There are biogeochemical cycles for the chemical elements calcium, carbon, hydrogen, mercury, nitrogen, oxygen,
    phosphorus, selenium, and sulfur; molecular cycles for water and silica; macroscopic cycles such as the rock cycle; as well as human-induced cycles for synthetic compounds such as
    polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB). In some cycles there are reservoirs where a substance remains for a long period of time (such as an ocean or lake for water).

    Systems

    Chloroplasts conduct photosynthesis and are found in plant cells and other eukaryotic organisms. These are Chloroplasts visible in the cells of Plagiomnium affine — Many-fruited Thyme-moss.

    Ecological systems (ecosystems) have many biogeochemical cycles operating as a part of the system, for example the water cycle, the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle, etc. All chemical
    elements occurring in organisms are part of biogeochemical cycles. In addition to being a part of living organisms, these chemical elements also cycle through abiotic factors of ecosystems
    such as water (hydrosphere), land (lithosphere), and/or the air (atmosphere).[1]

    The living factors of the planet can be referred to collectively as the biosphere. All the nutrients—such as carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur—used in ecosystems by living
    organisms are a part of a closed system; therefore, these chemicals are recycled instead of being lost and replenished constantly such as in an open system.[1]

    The flow of energy in an ecosystem is an open system; the sun constantly gives the planet energy in the form of light while it is eventually used and lost in the form of heat throughout the
    trophic levels of a food web. Carbon is used to make carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, the major sources of food energy. These compounds are oxidized to release carbon dioxide, which can
    be captured by plants to make organic compounds. The chemical reaction is powered by the light energy of the sun.

    Sunlight is required to combine carbon with hydrogen and oxygen into an energy source, but ecosystems in the deep sea, where no sunlight can penetrate, obtain energy from sulfur. Hydrogen
    sulfide near hydrothermal vents can be utilized by organisms such as the giant tube worm. In the sulfur cycle, sulfur can be forever recycled as a source of energy. Energy can be released
    through the oxidation and reduction of sulfur compounds (e.g., oxidizing elemental sulfur to sulfite and then to sulfate).

    Although the Earth constantly receives energy from the sun, its chemical composition is essentially fixed, as additional matter is only occasionally added by meteorites. Because this chemical
    composition is not replenished like energy, all processes that depend on these chemicals must be recycled. These cycles include both the living biosphere and the nonliving lithosphere,
    atmosphere, and hydrosphere.

    Reservoirs

    Coal is a reservoir of carbon.

    The chemicals are sometimes held for long periods of time in one place. This place is called a reservoir, which, for example, includes such things as coal deposits that are storing carbon for a
    long period of time.[2] When chemicals are held for only short periods of time, they are being held in exchange pools. Examples of exchange pools include plants and animals.[2]

    Plants and animals utilize carbon to produce carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, which can then be used to build their internal structures or to obtain energy. Plants and animals temporarily use
    carbon in their systems and then release it back into the air or surrounding medium. Generally, reservoirs are abiotic factors whereas exchange pools are biotic factors. Carbon is held for a
    relatively short time in plants and animals in comparison to coal deposits. The amount of time that a chemical is held in one place is called its residence time.[2]

    Important cycles
    The most well-known and important biogeochemical cycles are shown below:

    Carbon cycle Nitrogen Nutrient cycle Oxygen cycle Phosphorus Sulfur cycle Rock cycle Water cycle
    cycle cycle

    There are many biogeochemical cycles that are currently being studied for the first time as climate change and human impacts are drastically changing the speed, intensity, and balance of
    these relatively unknown cycles. These newly studied biogeochemical cycles include
    the mercury cycle,[3] and
    the human-caused cycle of PCBs.[4]

    Biogeochemical cycles always involve hot equilibrium states: a balance in the cycling of the element between compartments. However, overall balance may involve compartments distributed
    on a global scale.

    As biogeochemical cycles describe the movements of substances on the entire globe, the study of these is inherently multidisciplinary. The carbon cycle may be related to research in ecology
    and atmospheric sciences.[5] Biochemical dynamics would also be related to the fields of geology and pedology.[6]

    See also

    Wikiquote has quotations related to: Biogeochemical cycle

    Carbonate-silicate cycle Hydrogen Cycle


    Recycling (ecological)

    References
    1. "Biogeochemical Cycles" . The Environmental Literacy Council. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
    2. Baedke, Steve J.; Fichter, Lynn S. "Biogeochemical Cycles: Carbon Cycle" . Supplimental Lecture Notes for Geol 398. James Madison University. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
    3. "Mercury Cycling in the Environment" . Wisconsin Water Science Center. United States Geological Survey. 10 January 2013. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
    4. Organic contaminants that leave traces : sources, transport and fate. Ifremer. pp. 22–23. ISBN 9782759200139.
    5. McGuire, 1A. D.; Lukina, N. V. (2007). "Biogeochemical cycles" (PDF). In Groisman, P.; Bartalev, S. A.; NEESPI Science Plan Development Team (eds.). Northern Eurasia earth science partnership
    initiative (NEESPI), Science plan overview. Global Planetary Change. 56. pp. 215–234. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
    6. "Distributed Active Archive Center for Biogeochemical Dynamics" . daac.ornl.gov. Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Retrieved 20 November 2017.

    Further reading
    Butcher, Samuel S., ed. (1993). Global biogeochemical cycles. London: Academic Press. ISBN 9780080954707.
    Exley, C (15 September 2003). "A biogeochemical cycle for aluminium?". Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry. 97 (1): 1–7. doi:10.1016/S0162-0134(03)00274-5 .
    Jacobson, Michael C.; Charlson, Robert J.; Rodhe, Henning; Orians, Gordon H. (2000). Earth system science from biogeochemical cycles to global change (2nd ed.). San Diego, Calif.: Academic Press.
    ISBN 9780080530642.
    Palmeri, Luca; Barausse, Alberto; Jorgensen, Sven Erik (2013). "12. Biogeochemical cycles". Ecological processes handbook. Boca Raton: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781466558489.

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