Overview
- Detailed presentations on nitrogen cycle in many countries of the Americas
- Overview summary of human influences on nitrogen accross the Americas
- Analysis of natural controls in both tropical and temperate regions
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
The rate of creation of reactive nitrogen (NR) on the earth has dramatically increased in the last half century mainly due to the production of N-fertilizer through the Haber-Bosch process, fossil fuel combustion, and the cultivation of plants that fix N from the atmosphere. The anthropogenic production of NR has been especially high in developed countries of the temperate zone, such as the USA and Canada, where severe eutrophication of estuaries and coastal zones, acidification of lakes and streams, loss of biodiversity, and reduced forest productivity have become common environmental problems associated with increasing nitrogen loads to ecosystems.
However, important drivers responsible for the increase of the production of NR in the temperate zone are increasingly influencing the nitrogen cycle in rapidly developing regions of the world, such as the Tropics and Sub-Tropics, including most of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. Advances in our understanding of the nitrogen cycle and the impact of anthropogenic activities on regional to global scales depend on the expansion of scientific studies to these fast-developing regions.
This book presents a series of studies from across the Americas whose aim is to highlight key natural processes that control nitrogen cycling as well as discuss the main anthropogenic influences on the nitrogen cycle in both the tropical and temperate regions of the Americas.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nitrogen Cycling in the Americas: Natural and Anthropogenic Influences and Controls
Editors: Luiz A. Martinelli, Robert W. Howarth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5517-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4717-6Published: 23 August 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7178-1Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5517-1Published: 19 January 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 274
Additional Information: Reprinted from Biogeochemistry Volume 79, Nos. 1-2, 2006
Topics: Ecology, Ecosystems, Biogeosciences, Ecotoxicology