P. Vitousek

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Human Domination of Earth's Ecosystems
Human alteration of Earth is substantial and growing. Between one-third and one-half of the land surface has been transformed by human action; the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere has…
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HUMAN ALTERATION OF THE GLOBAL NITROGEN CYCLE: SOURCES AND CONSEQUENCES
Nitrogen is a key element controlling the species composition, diversity, dynamics, and functioning of many terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems. Many of the original plant species living…
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Terrestrial ecosystem production: A process model based on global satellite and surface data
This paper presents a modeling approach aimed at seasonal resolution of global climatic and edaphic controls on patterns of terrestrial ecosystem production and soil microbial respiration. We use…
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Biological invasions by exotic grasses, the grass/fire cycle, and global change
Biological invasions into wholly new regions are a consequence of a far reaching but underappreciated component of global environmental change, the human-caused breakdown of biogeographic barriers to…
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Significant Acidification in Major Chinese Croplands
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A meta-analysis of a regional acidification phenomenon in Chinese arable soils that is largely associated with higher N fertilization and higher crop production is presented, likely to threaten the sustainability of agriculture and affect the biogeochemical cycles of nutrients and also toxic elements in soils.
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Consequences of changing biodiversity
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The large ecological and societal consequences of changing biodiversity should be minimized to preserve options for future solutions to global environmental problems.
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Enhanced nitrogen deposition over China
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The impact of N deposition on Chinese ecosystems includes significantly increased plant foliar N concentrations in natural and semi-natural ecosystems and increased crop N uptake from long-term-unfertilized croplands.
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Terrestrial phosphorus limitation: mechanisms, implications, and nitrogen-phosphorus interactions.
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It is suggested that depletion, soil barriers, and low-P parent material often cause ultimate limitation because they control the ecosystem mass balance of P and cause it to be an ultimate limiting nutrient.
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Nitrogen limitation on land and in the sea: How can it occur?
AbstractThe widespread occurrence of nitrogen limitation to net primary production in terrestrial and marine ecosystems is something of a puzzle; it would seem that nitrogen fixers should have a…
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Nutrient Cycling and Nutrient Use Efficiency
  • P. Vitousek
  • Environmental Science
    The American Naturalist
  • 1 April 1982
TLDR
The pattern for nitrogen circulation and nitrogen use efficiency in forests has important implications for ecosystem-level properties, including the development of low nitrogen availability in soil.
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