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Nitrogen Cycling in the North Atlantic Ocean and its Watersheds - Report of the International SCOPE Nitrogen Project (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996)
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Nitrogen Cycling in the North Atlantic Ocean and its Watersheds - Report of the International SCOPE Nitrogen Project (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996)
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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.
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