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But on land, there’s an entirely different set of problems that drain accessible nitrogen far more quickly than it can be replaced.out of grasslands,” Mason says. Just as agricultural regions in California export an incredible amount of water in the form of produce, states with significant beef industries end up exporting a lot of the nitrogen from their soil as meat. “In a protein molecule, one atom out of every six is nitrogen,” Mason says.
“can cause nitrogen to get locked up in organic matter in a way that makes it unavailable to [other] plants,” Mason says.along with oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, phosphorous, and sulfur “Declines in nitrogen availability basically translate into the availability of plant proteins for insect herbivores and grazing mammals. [It] may well have effects on the growth and reproduction of those creatures,” Mason says.
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