Nitrogen and Food Production: Proteins for Human Diets
Nitrogen was the most commonly yield-limiting nutrient in all pre-industrial agricultures. Only the Haber-Bosch synthesis of ammonia broke this barrier. The rising dependence on...
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Dr. Smil is the world's authority on nitrogenous fertilizer.The industrial synthesis of ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen has been of greater fundamental importance to the mode...
P<scp>HOSPHORUS IN THE</scp>E<scp>NVIRONMENT</scp>: Natural Flows and Human Interferences
▪ Abstract Phosphorus has a number of indispensable biochemical roles, but it does not have a rapid global cycle akin to the circulations of C or N. Natural mobilization of the ...
Nitrogen in crop production: An account of global flows
Human activities have roughly doubled the amount of reactive N that enters the element's biospheric cycle. Crop production is by far the single largest cause of this anthropogen...
Losing the Links Between Livestock and Land
Global meat production is becoming increasingly industrialized, spatially concentrated, and geographically detached from the agricultural land base. This Policy Forum re...
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- Citations
- 3,182
- Institution
- University of Manitoba
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- 0000-0002-8142-298X
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