Some geomedical consequences of nitrogen circulation processes
By: edited by Jul Låg.
Contributors: Låg, J.; International Society of Soil Science. Working Group "Soils and Geomedicine"; Norske videnskaps-akademi.
Publisher: Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Oslo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Nitrogen in agriculture -- Congresses.; Nitrogen in the body -- Congresses.; Soils -- Nitrogen content -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: At head of title: The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters 1997.

"International Symposium Arranged in Oslo 12.-13. June 1997 by the working group Soils and Geomedicine of the International Society of Soil Science and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters."--verso of half T.p.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: General features connected to nitrogen circulation and health problems / Jul Låg; value: Food consumption and nitrogen losses from agriculture / Marina Azzaroli Bleken; value: Toxic effects in man and animals of nitrate, nitrite and other low molecular weight compounds involved in the nitrogen cycle / Tore Sivertsen; value: Protein requirements, intakes and contribution to the nitrogen flow in Norway / Halvor Holm; value: Consequences of malnutrition in childhood: does protein play a role? / Gerd Holmboe-Ottesen; value: Productions and use of nitrogen fertilizers / Ola Kaarstad; value: Methods for determination of plant available nitrogen in soil / A.R. Selmer-Olsen; value: Mobility and degradations of atrazine in soils columns / Ole Martin Eklo, Enrique Barriuso and Sabine Houot; value: Nitrogen circulation in Hungarian soils / Tamás Németh; value: Effect of N-nutrition on rice production, environment and human health in Bangladesh / Md. Abdul Kashem and Bal Ram Singh; value: Animal manure as a source of nitrogen in soils / Steinar Tveitnes; value: Nitrogen in minerals and rocks / Bjørn Bølviken; value: Retention and leaching of N in Norwegian coniferous forests / Gunnar Abrahamsen and Arne O. Stuanes; value: Waste-water nitrogen: growth promoter and pollution factor / Olav M. Skulberg and Jozsef Kotai; value: Dinitrogen fixation by blue-greens in boreal regions / Olav M. Skulberg; value: Nitrogen use in agriculture and its impact on animal and human health in India / R.P. Narwal, A.P. Gupta, R.S. Antil and B.R. Singh; value: Chronic intoxication by cassava HCN in Africa and Latin America / Francisco Franco Feitosa Teles; value: Nitrous oxide fluxes in agricultural soils as affected by soil texture, irrigation and fertilization / J.I.B. Sitaula, B.K. Sitaula and L.R. Bakken; value: Agricultural practices influencing soil mineral nitrogen and N2O emission / J.I.B. Sitaula, S. Hansen, B.K. Sitaula and L.R. Bakken.