Nitrogen transformations
From Course talk:APBI200
Hello! I'm hoping to match up my understanding about nitrogen transformations from lecture and from the relevant content on Soil Food Web. Would it be accurate to say that N transformations include: immobilization, mineralization (which incorporates aminization, ammonification, and nitrification), ammonium fixation, ammonium volatilization, and denitrification? All of these seem to involve a transformation of the chemical form of nitrogen in question, except, perhaps, for ammonium fixation, where the NH4+ appears to just get trapped in the phyllosilicate or humus complex. Thank you.
Amy, considering Inputs, Transformations and Losses....
volatilization and denitrification would be losses (i.e. losses of N from the soil).
SandraBrown (talk)