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In Ecosystems. Organisms tend to get phosphorus from their local ecosystem. An  organism can also get nitrogen from its local ecosystem. Nitrogen  is added to the organism's local ecosyste â¦ m by bacteria from the  air.
There are two impacts to the concept of supplying a limiting  nutrient to an ecosystem. The first is negative, when a nutrient  that is currently limiting algal growth (usually nitrogen or  phosphorus) is added to a body of water, you get an algal bloom or  red tide.