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Crop Biodiversity Could Reduce Nitrogen Runoff
Research fm Louisiana State University shows planting strategies that include a diverse range of crops is a technique that could lower nitrogen runoff. Where biodiversity of crops is high, there is less dissolved N found in surrounding watersheds that eventually make it to ocean. N from agriculture fertilizers winds up increasing the local aquatic dissolved nitrate. The increased nitrate leads to the growth of algae, which uses up the available oxygen in the water, creating dead zones. - Read More
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Topics : Biodiversity
Acid rain due to sulphur and nitrogen
Acid rain is rain or any other form of precipitation that is unusually acidic. It has harmful effects on plants, aquatic animals, and infrastructure. Acid rain is mostly caused by human emissions of sulfur and nitrogen compounds which react in the atmosphere to produce acids.
Nitrogen is the most needed fertilizer
Nitrogen (in the form of ammonium, NH4 +) is often the mostneeded fertilizer since it is an essential substrate for synthesis of all amino acids (thus proteins), chlorophylls (thus photosynthetic reaction centers), and many membrane lipid molecules.
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Topics : Agriculture