عنوان

Gaseous Loss of Nitrogen from Plant-Soil Systems

(Number (ISBN

9401716625

(Number (ISBN

9789401716628

Number

b592066

Title Proper

Gaseous Loss of Nitrogen from Plant-Soil Systems

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by J.R. Freney, J.R. Simpson.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Dordrecht

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Netherlands

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1983

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(x, 317 pages)

Series Title

Developments in plant and soil sciences, 9.

Text of Note

1. Volatilization of Ammonia --; 2. Biological denitrification --; 3. Chemodenitrification --; 4. The measurement of denitrification --; 5. Micrometeorological methods for measuring gaseous losses of nitrogen in the field --; 6. Gaseous nitrogen losses from plants --; 7. Nitrogen loss from sewage sludges and manures applied to agricultural lands --; 8. Ammonia loss from fertilizer applied to tropical pastures --; 9. Gaseous nitrogen exchanges in grazed pastures --; 10. Fate of fertilizer nitrogen applied to wetland rice --; 11. The fate of nitrogen compounds in the atmosphere --; 12. Agronomic technological approaches to minimizing gaseous nitrogen losses from croplands.

Text of Note

A growing interest has been shown recently in the dymanics of nitrogen in agricultural and natural ecosystems. This has been caused by increasing demands for food and fibre by a rapidly expanding world population, and by a growing concern that increased land clearing, cultivation and use of both fertilizer and biologically fixed nitrogen can have detrimental effects on the environment. These include effects on water quality, eutrophication of surface waters and changes in atmospheric composition all caused by increased cycling of nitrogenous compounds. The input and availability of nitrogen frequently affects the productivity of farming systems more than any other single management factor, but often the nitrogen is used inefficiently. Much of the fertilizer nitrogen applied to the soil is not utilised by the crop: it is lost either in solution form, by leaching of nitrate, or in gaseous forms as ammonia, nitrous oxide, nitric oxide or dinitrogen. The leached nitrate can contaminate rivers and ground waters, while the emitted ammonia can contaminate surface waters or combine with atmospheric sulfur dioxide to form aerosols which affect visibility, health and climate. There is also concern that increased evolution of nitrous oxide will deplete the protective ozone layer of the stratosphere. The possibility of a link between the intensity of agricultural use of nitrogen, nitrous oxide emissions and amounts of stratospheric ozone has focussed attention on these interactions.

Life sciences.

Plant physiology.

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edited by J.R. Freney, J.R. Simpson.

J R Freney

J R Simpson

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[Book]

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