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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483288603321

Titolo

Soil and recycling management in the Anthropocene era / / Gero Benckiser, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

3-030-51886-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XV, 172 p. 36 illus., 21 illus. in color.)

Collana

Environmental Science, , 1431-6250

Disciplina

589.704133

Soggetti

Nitrogen - Fixation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Biological treatment of wastewater containing plastic derived nitrogen compounds -- Physico-chemical treatment of wastewater containing plastic derived nitrogen compound. .

Sommario/riassunto

This book discusses soil and recycling management in the Anthropocene era. Nitrogen shortage is one of nature’s most important productivity regulators, but since the advent of technical nitrogen fixation (TNF), biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) input has nearly doubled, particularly in grass and arable lands covering over 13 million km2 of the Earth’s surface. This book explores how monoculture grass, arable lands and forests are often over fertilized with TNF, animal slurries, sewage sludge, or municipally produced composts, and as a result, flora and fauna that have adapted to a nitrogen shortage in the soil will have to adjust to a surplus; those that are unable to adapt will disappear.