New Perspectives on Nitrogen Cycling in the Temperate and by Alan R. Townsend

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By Alan R. Townsend

Inputs of nitrogen to terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems have elevated several-fold during the last 100 and fifty years, with the steepest raises over the last 4 many years. the growth of fertilizer manu facture and use, the rise in fossil gas combustion, the intensification of animal husbandry, and common cultivation of N2 solving plants have all contributed to the dramatic bring up in N inputs. the rise has been so much quick in Northern Hemisphere (NH) temperate ecosystems, yet almost immediately subtropical and tropical areas of Asia also are experiencing an explosive bring up in N inputs to terrestrial ecosystems (W. Chameides, pers. comm. ; Galloway et al. 1996). Projected raises in N deposition for those trop ical and subtropical areas, with a excessive usual heritage of N inputs, exceed raises projected for temperate and arctic areas (Cleveland et al. submitted; Galloway et al. 1994; Holland & Lamarque 1997a). in comparison to organic N fixation, N deposition is changing into a proportionately higher resource of N to terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems world wide (Vitousek et al. 1997). 6 The nitrogen inside the surroundings as N , three. nine * 10 Tg (Tg = 2 12 10 g), is the most important reservoir of N within the Earth procedure (Warneck 1988). besides the fact that, this paper makes a speciality of the nitrogen emissions and deposition which were remodeled from N2 into reactive kinds which are biologically avail capable (e. g. Vitousek et al. 1997).

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