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nitrogen fixation
- Subject Category
- P Natural Resources, Earth and Environmental Sciences
- S Biological Sciences
- Definition
- The biological or chemical process by which elemental nitrogen from the air is converted to organic or available nitrogen.
- Definition Source
- US Environmental Protection Agency
- RDF/XML Format:
- http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/17288.rdf
- Persistent URI:
- http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/17288
- Used For
- diazotrophy
- dinitrogen fixation
- Broader Term
- biochemical pathways
- soil biochemistry
- Related Term
- acetylene reduction
- actinorhizae
- anaerobic ammonium oxidation
- grain nitrogen content
- leghemoglobin
- nitrogen
- nitrogen-fixing bacteria
- nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria
- nitrogen-fixing trees
- plant nitrogen content
- soil organic nitrogen
- Spanish
- fijación del nitrógeno
- Term Number
- 17288