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Nitrogen Cycling in the North Atlantic Ocean and its Watersheds

Report of the International SCOPE Nitrogen Project

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-2
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  2. Nitrogen and phosphorus budgets of the North Atlantic Ocean and its watershed

    • J. N. Galloway, R. W. Howarth, A. F. Michaels, S. W. Nixon, J. M. Prospero, F. J. Dentener
    Pages 3-25

  3. Atmospheric deposition of nutrients to the North Atlantic Basin

    • J. M. Prospero, K. Barrett, T. Church, F. Dentener, R. A. Duce, J. N. Galloway et al.
    Pages 27-73

  4. Regional nitrogen budgets and riverine N & P fluxes for the drainages to the North Atlantic Ocean: Natural and human influences

    • R. W. Howarth, G. Billen, D. Swaney, A. Townsend, N. Jaworski, K. Lajtha et al.
    Pages 75-139

  5. The fate of nitrogen and phosphorus at the land-sea margin of the North Atlantic Ocean

    • S. W. Nixon, J. W. Ammerman, L. P. Atkinson, V. M. Berounsky, G. Billen, W. C. Boicourt et al.
    Pages 141-180

  6. Inputs, losses and transformations of nitrogen and phosphorus in the pelagic North Atlantic Ocean

    • A. F. Michaels, D. Olson, J. L. Sarmiento, J. W. Ammerman, K. Fanning, R. Jahnke et al.
    Pages 181-226

  7. Areas of shallow water in the North Atlantic

    • Michael E. G. Pilson, Sybil P. Seitzinger
    Pages 227-233

  8. Estimating denitrification in North Atlantic continental shelf sediments

    • Sybil P. Seitzinger, Anne E. Giblin
    Pages 235-260

  9. An assessment of nitrogen fixation as a source of nitrogen to the North Atlantic Ocean

    • Fredric Lipschultz, Nicholas J. P. Owens
    Pages 261-274

  10. Estimation of the air/sea exchange of ammonia for the North Atlantic Basin

    • P. K. Quinn, K. J. Barrett, F. J. Dentener, F. Lipschultz, K. D. Six
    Pages 275-304
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Human activity has dramatically altered the global nitrogen cycle in recent decades. These changes are not evenly distributed around the world; rather, they are greatest in regions of significant industrial and agricultural activity, as the synthesis and use of inorganic fertilizers, cultivation of legumes, burning of fossil fuels, and the simple act of concentrating humans and animals in dense populations all lead to the release of excess, reactive forms of nitrogen into the environment. In part because reactive nitrogen is frequently a limiting nutrient in many terrestrial and aquatic systems, an excess can lead to a variety of adverse effects on both environmental and human health.
The North Atlantic Ocean and its contributing watersheds constitute a region which has seen perhaps the greatest increase in anthropogenically-derived nitrogen. In May of 1994, the International Scope Nitrogen Project, with funding from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the United Nations Environment Program, and the World Meteorological Organization, sponsored a workshop held on Block Island, RI, USA, entitled `Nitrogen Dynamics of the North Atlantic Basin'. More than 50 scientists from 12 different countries convened with a unique set of goals: an integrated and comprehensive estimate of the current nitrogen cycle of the ocean, coastal systems, and contributing watersheds of the North Atlantic region; an analysis of human-induced changes to those cycles; and an assessment of the current and future effects of human-induced changes to nitrogen cycling throughout the globe.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Nitrogen Cycling in the North Atlantic Ocean and its Watersheds

  • Book Subtitle: Report of the International SCOPE Nitrogen Project

  • Editors: Robert W. Howarth

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1776-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1996

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-4281-6Published: 30 November 1996

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7293-9Published: 20 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-1776-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: V, 304

  • Topics: Geochemistry, Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Ecology

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