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Title Agriculture and the nitrogen cycle : assessing the impacts of fertilizer use on food production and the environment / edited by Arvin Mosier, J. Keith Syers, and John R. Freney
Published Washington, D.C. : Island Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 296 pages) : illustrations
Series SCOPE ; 65
SCOPE report ; 65.
Contents Nitrogen fertilizer: an essential component of increased food, feed and fiber production / Arvin R. Mosier, J. Keith Syers, John R. Freney -- Crop, environmental, and management factors affecting nitrogen use efficiency / Vethaiya Balasubramanian [and others] -- Emerging technologies to increase the efficiency of use of fertilizer nitrogen / Ken E. Giller [and others] -- Pathways of nitrogen loss and their impacts on human health and the environment / Mark B. Peoples [and others] -- Societal responses for addressing nitrogen fertilizer needs: balancing food production and environmental concerns / Cheryl A. Palm -- Improving fertilizer nitrogen use efficiency through an ecosystem-based approach / Laurie E. Drinkwater -- Nitrogen dynamics in legume-based pasture systems / M.B. Peoples [and others] -- Management of nitrogen fertilizer in Maize-based systems in subhumid areas of sub-Saharan Africa / B. Vanlauwe, N. Sanginga, K. Giller, R. Merckx -- Integrated nitrogen input systems in Denmark / J.E. Olesen [and others] -- Rice systems in China with high nitrogen inputs / Ronald Buresh [and others] -- Using advanced technologies to refine nitrogen management at the farm scale: a case study from the U.S. Midwest / T. Scott Murrell -- Impact of management systems on fertilizer nitrogen use efficiency / John Havlin -- Fertilizer nitrogen use efficiency as influenced by interactions with other nutrients / Milkha S. Aulakh, Sukhdev S. Malhi -- Assessment of fertilizer nitrogen recovery efficiency by grain crops / r T.J. Krupnik [and others] -- Pathways and losses of fertilizer nitrogen at differenct scales / Keith Goulding -- Current nitrogen inputs to world regions / Elizabeth W. Boyer [and others] -- Challenges and opportunities for the fertilizer industry / Amit H. Roy, Lawrence L. Hammond -- Role of nitrogen in sustaining food production and estimating future nitrogen fertilizer needs to meet food demand / Stanley Wood, Julio Henao, Mark Rosegrant -- Environmental dimensions of fertilizer nitrogen: what can be done to increase nitrogen use efficiency and ensure global food security? / Achim Dobermann, Kenneth C. Cassman
Summary Annotation "Agriculture an dthe Nitrogen Cycle provides a unique, up-to-date assessment of the role of nitrogen fertilizer in the nitrogen cycle. In it, the authors emphasize the need to maintain food and fiber production while minimizing environmental impacts where fertilizer is abundant, and the need to enhance fertilizer utilization in systems where nitrogen is limited. The book is derived from a workshop held by the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) that brought together the world's leading scientists to examine the nitrogen cycle and related problems."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Nitrogen fertilizers.
Nitrogen fertilizers -- Environmental aspects
Nitrogen cycle.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- General.
Nitrogen cycle
Nitrogen fertilizers
Nitrogen fertilizers -- Environmental aspects
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Form Electronic book
Author Mosier, Arvin.
Syers, John K. (John Keith)
Freney, J. R. (John Raymond)
International Council for Science. Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment.
ISBN 9781435648586
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