biogeochemistry
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biogeochemistry (uncountable)
(biology, geology, chemistry, ecology) The scientific study of biological, geological and chemical processes in the natural environment and especially of their mutual relationships
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Diet reconstruction of ancient brown bears (Ursus arctos) from Mont Ventoux (France) using bone collagen stable isotope biogeochemistry (13C, 15N).
The project, called the Global Ocean Biogeochemistry Array, will be led by La Jolla’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and other organizations.
Diet, physiology and ecology of fossil mammals as inferred from stable carbon and nitrogen isotope biogeochemistry: implications for Pleistocene bears.
The ecology of global carbon budgets gives one example of the linkage between biodiversity and biogeochemistry.
With the exception of cotton farming, the use of the organic arsenicals was phased out until 2013. citation The biogeochemistry of arsenic is complex and includes various adsorption and desorption processes.