Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 1998
A two-day Discussion Meeting of the Royal Society, ‘The Nitrogen Cycle’, held in London in June 1991 (Stewart & Rosswall, 1992) reviewed the considerable progress made in understanding the N cycle in agricultural, forest and aquatic systems. The meeting included some discussion of the concerns which were already being expressed at that time over nitrate in water supplies, and the impacts of nitrogenous gases on tropospheric chemistry, the greenhouse effect and the ozone layer. Since then, disquiet over the impacts of nitrogenous compounds on the environment has increased, and numerous papers have been published on many aspects of the problem. We now have much better understanding of the size and scale of the perturbation of the N cycle, and several review papers have highlighted the complexity of the formidable issues that are challenging environmental scientists (Vitousek, 1994; Galloway et al., 1995; Vitousek et al., 1997).
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