{"id":25482,"date":"2017-11-04T15:49:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T15:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=25482"},"modified":"2017-11-04T15:49:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T15:49:32","slug":"biology-composting-immobilization-vs-mineralization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/biology-composting-immobilization-vs-mineralization\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology, composting: immobilization vs mineralization"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Organic groundskeeping leads to self-tutoring. The tutor defines two terms connected with composting.<\/h1>\n<p>In a properly functioning ecosystem, nutrients are constantly recycled &#8211; they are used by one organism, then released back to the soil to be retaken by another.<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family:monospace;font-size:130%;background-color:#cdffff;\"><em>Immobilisation<\/em> is the temporary possession of a nutrient by an organism (typically not a plant, but rather a decomposer). The decomposer needs the nutrient for its own life process. While the decomposer is alive, the nutrient it contains is unavailable to the surrounding plants.<\/div>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family:monospace;font-size:130%;background-color:#ffcdff;\"><em>Mineralization<\/em> is release of nutrients to the environment. Now they are available to plants.<\/div>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\"><\/p>\n<p>The eventual result of decomposition is mineralization. During decomposition, however, immobilization may happen.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knowledgebank.irri.org\/submergedsoils\/index.php\/nitrogen-transformations\/lesson-3\">www.knowledgebank.irri.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organic groundskeeping leads to self-tutoring. The tutor defines two terms connected with composting. In a properly functioning ecosystem, nutrients are constantly recycled &#8211; they are used by one organism, then released back to the soil to be retaken by another. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/biology-composting-immobilization-vs-mineralization\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biology, composting: immobilization vs mineralization<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,779,199,1218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-botany","category-ecology","category-yard-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25482"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25516,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25482\/revisions\/25516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}