date:Feb 21, 2013
lity through providing excess nutrients to the land and sea, a process called eutrophication. This can lead to the acidification of soil and water, algal blooms, negative impacts on human health and increased emissions of atmospheric nitrous oxide which has a global-warming potential 300 times greater than carbon dioxide.
The meta-analysis shows that bulk N deposition increased significantly from 1980 to 2010 and was approximately 8 kg N per hectare or 60 per cent higher in the 2000s than in th