nutrient depletion
Fertility running out
Nutrient depletion is the loss or exhaustion of essential nutrients from a system.
Soil suffers nutrient depletion when crops extract more minerals than are replaced: Years of intensive farming led to severe nutrient depletion.
The term also applies to food processing that strips vitamins and minerals, or to bodily conditions where nutrients are inadequately absorbed or rapidly consumed.
- deficiencyLack of something needed
- iron deficiencyInsufficient bodily ferritin levels
- exhaustionState of utter depletion
- running on fumesFunctioning despite exhaustion
- soilGround matter for planting
worn out soil · famine · hunger · barren · leached · washed away · stripped · starved · minerals · trace minerals · vitamins · anemia · fatigue · erosion · withered · bone dry · pale · weak
- nutritionprotein, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals
- farm problemssoil erosion, water pollution, fertilizer runoff, overgrazing, crop failure
- malnutritionmalnutrition, malnourished, undernourished, undernourishment, starvation
- Pasture Problemsovergrazing, weeds, drought, erosion, flooding
- Bacterial Growthbinary fission, cell division, exponential growth, growth curve, growth rate
- soil degradationsoil erosion, desertification, salinization, compaction, leaching
nutrient depletionfertilization
Gamete fusion creating zygote
soil amendment · composting · eutrophication · remineralization · manuring
nutrient depletionsoil regeneration
Renewing degraded earth's fertility
land restoration · soil conservation · ecosystem restoration · land reclamation
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