Humans have greatly influenced the phosphorus cycle by mining phosphorus, converting it to fertilizer, and by shipping fertilizer and products around the globe.
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Runoff from agriculture and development, pollution from septic systems and phosphorus cycling on Earth by four times, mainly due to agricultural fertilizer production and application.
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The "'phosphorus cycle "'is the biogeochemical cycle that describes the movement of phosphorus through the lithosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere.
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Phosphates move quickly through plants and animals; however, the processes that move them through the soil or ocean are very slow, making the phosphorus cycle overall one of the slowest biogeochemical cycles.
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Enzymatic hydrolysis of organic phosphorus is an essential step in the biogeochemical phosphorus cycle, including the phosphorus nutrition of plants and microorganisms and the transfer of organic phosphorus from soil to bodies of water.
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An estimated 2 to 3 million tonnes are used annually in the production of cement, road construction and as a source for iron . application to sandy soils to improve phosphorus cycling, amelioration of soil acidity, landfill capping and carbon sequestration.
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Some shallow temperate lakes can exist within either clear water regime, which provides many ecosystem services, or a turbid water regime, which provides reduced ecosystem services and can produce phosphorus cycles, and either regime can be resilient dependent upon the lake's ecology and management.
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It also seeks to increase knowledge of how humans are influencing the global processes, such as the carbon cycle, nitrogen cycle, sulfur cycle, water cycle and phosphorus cycle . " It delivers scientific knowledge to help human societies develop in harmony with Earth's environment ."
