Biologia

Looking for the effects of excess nitrogen in ecosystems

Por Helena Serrano (eChanges-cE3c - Centro de Ecologia, Evolução e Alterações Ambientais / grupo eChanges - Ecology of environmental Changes).

Nitrogen (N) is an essential element for life. No question there. But since Man discovered how to synthesise reactive forms of nitrogen from atmospheric nitrogen, using the Haber-Bosch process, creating nitrogen fertilisers that allowed the human population to be better feed and double in numbers, the input of excessive nitrogen into the environment has begun.

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