carbon cycle
carbon cycle
the cycle of carbon in the biosphere in which plants convert carbon dioxide to organic compounds that are consumed by plants and animals and the carbon is returned to the biosphere in inorganic form by processes of respiration and decay
Broader Terms
More specific terms
- NT4 ↓ air vegetation carbon dioxyde storage flux
- NT4 ↓ air vegetation carbon dioxyde storage flux density
- NT4 ↓ carbon balance
- NT4 ↓ carbon dioxide storage in the canopy air layer
- NT4 ↓ carbon flux
- NT4 ↓ carbon mineralization
- NT4 ↓ carbon sequestration
- NT4 ↓ decomposition of soil organic residue
- NT4 ↓ flux of carbon dioxide ►
- NT4 ↓ litter decay
- NT4 ↓ litterfall
- NT4 ↓ methan flux
- NT4 ↓ mineralisation of soil organic residue
- NT4 ↓ net carbon dioxyde flux above the ecosystem
- NT4 ↓ net carbon dioxyde flux density
- NT4 ↓ net carbon dioxyde flux density above the ecosystem
- NT4 ↓ net ecosystem carbon dioxyde flux density
- NT4 ↓ organic matter gas consumption
- NT4 ↓ organic matter gas production
- NT4 ↓ organic matter solutes consumption
- NT4 ↓ organic matter solutes production
- NT4 ↓ potential carbon availability
- NT4 ↓ soil carbon dioxide flux ►
- ExactMatch: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_17299
- ExactMatch: http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/Concept/1164
