Sentences with phrase «global nitrogen cycle»
The debate centers on how nitrogen — one of the most important food sources for ocean life and a controller of atmospheric carbon dioxide — becomes converted to a form that can exit the ocean and return to the atmosphere where it is reused in the global nitrogen cycle.
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Scientists propose a list of planetary boundaries for human impacts ranging from biodiversity loss to the global nitrogen cycle
To make a real difference, he adds, «governments should join forces to better manage the global nitrogen cycle.»
As a result, global change researchers will have to change their estimations on the nitrification potential in the global nitrogen cycle.»
Our next global challenge is likely to be human modification of the global nitrogen cycle.
For anyone doubting whether a lowly hominid could be a planet - scale influence, a paper on the human domination of the global nitrogen cycle in the Oct. 8 edition of Science would be a useful read.
Already, Rockström argues, three planetary boundaries have been crossed — those of climate change, biodiversity and the global nitrogen cycle.
Ice Coring Scientists extracted a 100 - meter - long ice core in Greenland to measure how fossil fuel burning of industrial times has disrupted the global nitrogen cycle.