首页
登录
职称英语
Fertilizer use has exploded, overloading plants worldwide, likely altering e
Fertilizer use has exploded, overloading plants worldwide, likely altering e
游客
2023-08-13
28
管理
问题
Fertilizer use has exploded, overloading plants worldwide, likely altering ecosystems for decades to centuries, scientists report Thursday. In the journal Science, a review led by Donald Canfield of the University of Southern Denmark found that fertilizer use worldwide increased 800% from 1960 to 2000. "Given the rising costs of synthetic fertilizer production, this overuse is not only economically expensive, but also initiates a series of large-scale environmental impacts," says the review.
Fundamentally, nitrogen from fertilizers has led to an explosion in "dead zones" in seas and oceans, upsetting a cycle of nutrients balanced with growth that has lasted for billions of years, the authors find.
As well, the excess nitrogen is forming large amounts of nitrous oxide(一氧化二氮), a powerful greenhouse gas in wetlands, adding to climate change. Agriculture today produces about a quarter of the nitrous oxide in the atmosphere.
"The effects of humans have been profound. In the last few decades we have doubled the worldwide biological availability of nitrogen, an element that often limits growth of plants and algae," says Thomas Jordan of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Eclgewater, Md., who was not part of the review. The review, "is a very careful analysis of the nitrogen cycle by three of the world authorities in this area," says biochemist Robert Blankenship of Washington University in St. Louis, who also was not part of the review. "The concerns they raise for how the nitrogen cycle is now significantly out of balance are important and need to be addressed by changing agricultural practices. The world’s food supply depends directly on nitrogen application in the form of fertilizer, but current practices are such that much of the applied nitrogen ends up in rivers and eventually in the ocean where it causes serious problems."
"Natural feedbacks driven by microorganisms will likely produce a new steady state over time scales of many decades," say the review authors. "However, because of the projected increase in human population through at least 2050, there will be demand for an increase in fixed nitrogen for crops to feed this population." And that will mean a lot more dead zones, they warn, like the one that blooms yearly, in 2010 about the size of New Jersey, in the Gulf of Mexico.
"Several new approaches and a much wider use of more sustainable time-honored practices, however, can decrease nitrogen use substantially," they conclude. The rising cost and environmental toll of fertilizers will increase demand for less use on farms, they add. "However, even with management, the future cycle will likely be different from the one that preceded the Industrial Revolution." [br] What happens to the "dead zones" year by year?
选项
A、The sizes of such zones keep expanding.
B、The human population in such zones keeps increasing.
C、There is an increasing demand for crops in such zones.
D、Microorganisms grow well in such zones.
答案
A
解析
该句中的blooms表明在墨西哥湾的“死区”每年的面积都在扩大。而该句开头部分又表明,以后会有更多与墨西哥湾“死区”相似的dead zones的出现,这暗示dead zones的面积每年都会扩大。因此,本题应选A。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/2921446.html
相关试题推荐
Oldstereotypesdiehard.Pictureavideo-gameplayerandyouwilllikelyima
Oldstereotypesdiehard.Pictureavideo-gameplayerandyouwilllikelyima
Oldstereotypesdiehard.Pictureavideo-gameplayerandyouwilllikelyima
Oldstereotypesdiehard.Pictureavideo-gameplayerandyouwilllikelyima
Astherecentcourgette(密生西葫芦)crisisandshortagesoflettuce,eggplantsand
Astherecentcourgette(密生西葫芦)crisisandshortagesoflettuce,eggplantsand
Astherecentcourgette(密生西葫芦)crisisandshortagesoflettuce,eggplantsand
Astherecentcourgette(密生西葫芦)crisisandshortagesoflettuce,eggplantsand
Astherecentcourgette(密生西葫芦)crisisandshortagesoflettuce,eggplantsand
Astherecentcourgette(密生西葫芦)crisisandshortagesoflettuce,eggplantsand
随机试题
[img]2014m3x/ct_eyyjscz2013c_eyyjscd_0021_20138[/img]Ifyou【D1】______smooth
Architecturalmorphologyisthestudyofhowshiftingculturalandenvironme
TherewasatimewhenredmeatwasaluxuryforordinaryAmericans,orwasa
正常小儿尿蛋白的特点,下列哪一项是错误的()A.定量不超过100mg/k
悬挑式脚手架是指架体结构卸荷在附着于建筑结构的刚性悬挑梁(架)上的脚手架,用于建
校准是指在规定条件下的一组操作,第一步(),第二步()。A.在规定条件下确定
营养不良时患儿皮下脂肪消失的顺序为A:腹部、面部、躯干、臀部、四肢 B:面部、
根据《招标投标法实施条例》第27条的规定,下列关于标底及最高投标限价编制的表述,
下列关于数据分析的表述中,不正确的是()。A.数据分析能让注册会计师处理一个完
电线上风荷载昨计算是以风速V(m/s)的基本风压=W0=V2/16(kg?f/
最新回复
(
0
)