Abstract
Producing food, transportation, and energy for seven billion people has led to large and widespread increases in the use of synthetic nitrogen (N) fertilizers and fossil fuel combustion, resulting in a leakage of N into the environment as various forms of air and water pollution. The global N cycle is more severely altered by human activity than the global carbon (C) cycle, and reactive N dynamics affect all aspects of climate change considerations, including mitigation, adaptation, and impacts. In this special issue of Biogeochemistry, we present a review of the climate-nitrogen interactions based on a technical report for the United States National Climate Assessment presented as individual papers for terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, agriculture and human health within the US. We provide a brief overview of each of the paper's main points and conclusions is presented in this foreword summary.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1-10 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Biogeochemistry |
| Volume | 114 |
| Issue number | 1-3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 2013 |
Funding
Acknowledgments This work resulted from a workshop supported by NSF Research Coordination Network awards DEB-0443439 and DEB-1049744 and by the David and Lucille Packard Foundation. We would like to thank all the authors of each of the papers in this special issue for preparing the NCA technical report and for putting together these papers. In addition we would like to thank those who provided prior reviews and comments.
| Funders | Funder number |
|---|---|
| 1049744, DEB-1049744, DEB-0443439, 0443439 | |
| David and Lucile Packard Foundation |
Keywords
- Climate change
- Interactions
- Nitrogen
- US
