Nitrogen cycling in coastal marine environments T. H. Blackburn and J. Sorensen (eds), Proceedings of a scope (Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment) symposium, held at Aarhus, Denmark, 3–7 June, 1985. Scope 33, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, 1988. No. of pages: 451, ISBN 0 471 91404 5, £55.00, hardback

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• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 560 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0885-6087
• DOI: 10.1002/hyp.3360030111

✦ Synopsis

Agricultural intensification and technological development in recent decades has altered the types, amounts, and patterns of nitrogen released into the environment by man. Anthropogenic sources of nitrogen include agricultural inorganic fertilizers and organic manures, domestic and industrial sewage, and the burning of fossil fuels, including vehicular emissions. Problems of enhanced eutrophication of watercourses and inland freshwater bodies as a result of these discharges has been the subject of a substantial amount of research and public attention in recent years. The knock-on effects of increased nutrient loading to coastal marine environments has received less intensive attention until now, although the rather special case of nutrients in estuarine waters and sediments has been systematically reviewed at a series of conferences organized by the