Overview

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. 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. This text presents their findings.

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Author:   Robert W. Howarth
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Reprinted from BIOGEOCHEMISTRY, 35:1, 1996
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   1.370kg
ISBN:  

9780792342816

ISBN 10:   079234281
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   30 November 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Nitrogen and phosphorus budgets of the North Atlantic Ocean and its watershed.- Atmospheric deposition of nutrients to the North Atlantic Basin.- Regional nitrogen budgets and riverine N & P fluxes for the drainages to the North Atlantic Ocean: Natural and human influences.- The fate of nitrogen and phosphorus at the land-sea margin of the North Atlantic Ocean.- Inputs, losses and transformations of nitrogen and phosphorus in the pelagic North Atlantic Ocean.- Areas of shallow water in the North Atlantic.- Estimating denitrification in North Atlantic continental shelf sediments.- An assessment of nitrogen fixation as a source of nitrogen to the North Atlantic Ocean.- Estimation of the air/sea exchange of ammonia for the North Atlantic Basin.

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