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Nutrients and nutrient cycles

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Because it is ultimately dispersed back to space as heat, energy flows in only one direction through an ecosystem. In contrast, the materials from which living matter is fashioned are in constant circulation back and forth between plants and animals and the non-living environment.

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Collinson, A.S. (1988). Nutrients and nutrient cycles. In: Introduction to World Vegetation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-3935-7_4

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