Tag: Ecological recycling

Up to 90% of the energy is lost between trophic levels, but nutrients are constantly recycled in a process vital to all life. This cyclical movement is the essence of what is a nutrient transfer process, a complex system of ecological recycling that keeps essential elements available for organisms across ecosystems.

Over 95% of the mass of all living things is composed of elements like carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen that are continuously recycled through ecosystems. This vital, continuous process, known as the nutrition cycle, or biogeochemical cycle, describes how these essential elements move through different parts of the environment.