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Which cycle does not have a significant gaseous phase?

The keyed exception is “Phosphorus.” In the context of which cycle does not have a significant gaseous phase, that statement differs from the governing ecological pattern and must be evaluated against the mechanism rather than accepted from wording alone. The relevant inference should follow the pathway from resource supply to organismal uptake and then to ecosystem-level flux. Productivity, trophic transfer, decomposition, and nutrient regeneration are connected, but each measures a different part of that pathway. The remaining alternatives—“Carbon”, “Nitrogen”, “Sulfur”—refer to different st

Ref: Ecology: From Individuals to Ecosystems, Begon et al., 5th Ed., Ch. 18