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nutrient cycle

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A nutrient cycle is the endless passing of nourishment through living things. Follow the nutrient cycle.

Nothing is created or lost, only borrowed and handed on, which is the whole idea. A nutrient cycle depends on decay, which is why fungi matter as much as anything green.

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Definitions of nutrient cycle

  1. 1nounnutrient cycleThe endless passing of nourishment through living things.C1

    “The nutrient cycle was broken where the topsoil had been stripped.”

nutrient cycle is a cycle.

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