Range |
~0.2 Tg N/yr
|
Organism |
Biosphere |
Reference |
Galloway et al., Nitrogen Cycles: Past, Present, and Future,
Biogeochemistry
September 2004, Volume 70, Issue 2, pp 153-226 p.156 top paragraph |
Primary Source |
Smil V. 2000. Feeding the World: A Challenge for the Twenty-First Century. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. |
Comments |
"The only sources for ‘new’ N
at that time ([the beginning of the 20th century,] in addition to cultivation) were guano deposits on arid islands and evaporite nitrate deposits in South America (e.g., Chile), which supplied about
0.2 Tg N/yr (primary source)." |
Entered by |
Uri M |
ID |
110430 |