Agriculture and the Nitrogen Cycle
Subtitle: Assessing the Impacts of Fertilizer Use on Food Production and the Environment (Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) Series)
Contributors: Arvin Mosier (Editor); J. Keith Syers (Editor); John R. Freney (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Island Press
Published: September 15, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781559637107
Subjects: Fertilizers & manures; Science; Environmental aspects; Agricultural Chemistry; Field Crop Ecology; Technology & Industrial Arts; Nitrogen fertilizers; Science/Mathematics; Nitrogen cycle; Agriculture - General; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Life Sciences - Ecology; Science / Environmental Science
First sentence: Nitrogen (N) fertilizer has made a substantial contribution to the tripling of global food production over the past 50 years.