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Is nitrogen the next carbon?

Author(s) -

Battye William,

Aneja Viney P.,

Schlesinger William H.

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

earth's future

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.641

H-Index - 39

ISSN - 2328-4277

DOI - 10.1002/2017ef000592

Subject(s) - nitrogen , environmental science , reactive nitrogen , carbon cycle , nitrogen cycle , perturbation (astronomy) , carbon fibers , natural (archaeology) , atmospheric sciences , environmental chemistry , ecology , chemistry , geography , geology , ecosystem , biology , mathematics , physics , organic chemistry , composite number , archaeology , algorithm , quantum mechanics

Key Points The rapid growth of anthropogenic reactive nitrogen production now makes it unquestionably dominant relative to the total of natural sources Anthropogenic production of reactive nitrogen has increased almost five‐fold in the last 60 years. This anthropogenic activity is a massive perturbation of a global geochemical cycle in a relatively short period of time.

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