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This chapter examines the role of the soil population in the transformation of materials in soil, in particular the elements C, N, P and S. The coverage is restricted; there are many excellent texts giving details of nutrient cycling (see references and further reading). What it attempts to do, however, is to show how transformations of elements in soil can be viewed from the perspective of the nutrition of the soil population, their requirements and how these are satisfied. The subsequent chapters consider the implications of these processes in terms of soil development and environmental issues.
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Wood, M. (1995). Biological processes in soil. In: Environmental Soil Biology. Experimental and Clinical Neuroscience. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0625-2_3
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