When those algae decompose over time, the organic nitrogen they release creates the ideal circumstances for a brown tide bloom.

The cyanobacteria may feed on glycerol produced by the dinoflagellates, and in turn may release some form of organic nitrogen for the coral.

Other organisms, like animals, depend solely on organic nitrogen from their food.

The Cornell unit says that every garbage bag of clippings wastes a quarter-pound of usable organic nitrogen.

It is an excellent source of organic nitrogen.

Bacteria, or fungi in some cases, convert the organic nitrogen within the remains back into ammonium (NH), a process called ammonification or mineralization.

Yet how did they know that the human body is pumped full of organic nitrogen?

Grazing of phytoplankton by zooplankton and larger organisms transfers this organic nitrogen up the food chain and throughout the marine food-web.

Increased lability of estuarine dissolved organic nitrogen from urbanized watersheds.

When supplies were low, it advertised for housewives to save the contents of their chamber pots-urine was a rich source of organic nitrogen.