Assessment of nitrogen flows into the Cuban landscape

Biogeochemistry

Volumn 79, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 91-108

  Baisre, Julio A ^a  

^a Ministerio de la Industria Pesquera   (Cuba)

Author keywords

Atmospheric deposition; Fertilizer; Nitrogen; Nitrogen budgets

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; COASTAL ZONE; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LANDSCAPE; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN FIXATION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CUBA; GREATER ANTILLES; USSR;

SACCHARUM;

EID: 33745914955     PISSN: 01682563     EISSN: 1573515X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10533-006-9004-z     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (51)

1. Aleem A.A. 1972. Effect of river outflow management on marine life. Mar. Biol. 15: 200-208.
2. Alexander R.A., Johnes P.J., Boyer E.W. and Smith R.A. 2002. A comparison of methods for estimating the riverine export of nitrogen from large watersheds. Biogeochemistry 57/58: 295-339.
3. Baisre J.A. 1985. Los Complejos Ecológicos de Pesca: Su importancia en la administración de las pesquerías cubanas. FAO Fish Rep. 278(Suppl.): 251-272.
4. Baisre J.A. 2000. Chronicle of Cuban Marine Fisheries 1935-1995: Trend analysis and fisheries potential. FAO Fish. Tech. Pap. 394, 26 pp.
5. Boesch D.F. 2001. Causes and consequences of nutrient overenrichment of coastal waters. In: Ragaini R. (ed.), International Seminar on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies. 25th Session, World Scientific publishing, Singapore, pp. 165-180.
6. Boyer E.W., Goodale C.L., Jaworski N.A. and Howarth R.W. 2002. Anthropogenic nitrogen sources and relationships to riverine nitrogen export in the northeastern U.S.A. Biogeochemistry 57/58: 137-169.
7. Caddy J.F. 1993. Towards a comparative evaluation of human impacts on fishery ecosystems of enclosed and semi-enclosed seas. Rev. Fish. Sci. 1(1): 57-95.
8. Caddy J.F. and Bakun A. 1994. A tentative classification of coastal marine ecosystems based on dominant processes of nutrient supply. Ocean Coastal Manag. 23: 201-211.
9. Caddy J.F. and Bakun A. 1995. Marine Catchment Basins and anthropogenic effects on coastal fishery ecosystems. FAO Fish. Rep. 349: 119-133.
10. Caddy J.F. 2000. Marine catchment basin effects versus impact of fisheries on semienclosed seas. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 57: 628-640.
11. Caraco N.F. and Cole J.J. 1999. Human impact of nitrate export: an analysis using major world rivers. Ambio 28(2): 167-170.
12. Centella A., Llanes J., López C. and Limia M. 2000. First National Report to the United Nation Convention on Climate Change (Spanish). Instituto de Meteorología, La Habana, Cuba.
13. 2) fixation in natural ecosystems. Global Biochem. Cycles 13: 623-645.
14. Cloern J.E. 2001. Our evolving conceptual model of the coastal eutrophication problem. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 210: 223-253.
15. Cubagua 2004. Cuban data base on water resources. (http://www.hidro.cu).
16. Cuesta Santos O., Ortiz Bulto P.L. and González M.L. 1998. Deposition and atmospheric nitrogen concentrations trends in Cuba. Water, Air, Soil Pollution 106: 163-169.
17. Dacal Moure R. and Rivero de la Calle M. 1986. Arqueología aborigen de Cuba. Editorial Gente Nueva, La Habana, 174 pp.
18. Deegan L.A., Day J.W. Jr., Yañez-Arencibia A., Gosselink J.G., Soberón-Chávez G. and Sánchez-Gil P. 1986. Relationships among physical characteristics, vegetation, distributions, and fisheries yield in Gulf of Mexico estuaries. In: Wolfe D.A. (ed.), Estuarine Variability, Academic Press, NewYork, pp. 83-100.
19. Dennis R. 1997. Using the Regional Acid Deposition Model to determine the nitrogen deposition airshed of the Chesapeake Bay watershed. In: Baker J.E. (ed.), Atmospheric Deposition of Contaminants to the Great Lakes and Coastal Waters, SETAC Press, Pensacola, Florida, pp. 393-413.
20. Downing J.A., Mcclain M., Twilley R., Melack J.M., Elser J., Rabalais N.N., Lewis W.M. Jr., Turner R.E., Corredor J., Soto D., Yañes-Arencibia A., Kopaska J.A. and Howarth R.W. 1999. The impact of accelerating land-use change on the N-Cycle of tropical aquatic ecosystems: current conditions and projected changes. Biogeochemistry 46: 109-148.
21. FAO 2003. Fertilizer Used by Crop in Cuba. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, 28 pp.
22. FAOSTAT 2004. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAOSTAT Agriculture Data. (http://www.apps.fao.org/).
23. Galloway J.N. and Cowling E.B. 2002. Reactive nitrogen and the world: 200 Years of change. Ambio 31(2): 64-71.
24. Galloway J.N., Dentener F.J., Capone D.G., Boyer E.W., Howarth R.W., Seitzinger S.P., Asner G.P., Cleveland C., Green P., Holland E., Karl D.M., Michaels A.F., Porter J.H., Townsed A. and Vorösmarty C. 2004. Nitrogen cycles: past, present and future. Biogeochemistry 70: 153-226.
25. Galloway J.N., Schlesinger W., Levy H. II, Michaels A. and Schnoor J.L. 1995. Nitrogen fixation: Atmosopheric enhancement-environmental response. Global Biochem. cycles 9: 235-252.
26. Grimes C.B. 2001. Fishery production and the Mississippi river discharge. Fisheries, 26(8): 17-26.
27. Howarth R.W., Billen G., Swaney D., Townsend A., Jaworski N., Lajtha K., Downing J.A., Elmgen R., Caraco N., Jordan T., Berendse F., Freney J., Kudeyarov V., Murdoch P. and Zhu Zhao-Liang 1996. Regional nitrogen budgets and riverine N & O fluxes for the drainages to the North Atlantic Ocean: Natural and human influences. Biogeochemistry 35: 75-139.
28. Howarth R.W., Anderson D., Cloern J., Elfring C., Hopkinson C., Lapointe B., Malone T., Marcus N., McGlathery K., Sharpley A. and Walker D. 2000. Nutrient Pollution of coastal rivers, bays and seas. Issues Ecol. 7, 15 pp.
29. Howarth R.H., Boyer E., Pabich W. and Galloway J.N. 2002. Nitrogen use in the United States from 1961-2000, and estimates of potential future trends. Ambio 31: 88-96.
30. IIIA (1985). Tabla de Composición de Alimentos. Instituto de Investigaciones de la Industria Alimenticia e Instituto Nacional de Higiene de los Alimentos, 6 pp.
31. IFA (International Fertilizer Industry Association) 2004. Nitrogen, phosphate and potash statistics (http://www.fertilizer.org/ifa/statistics/ IFADATA/dataline.asp).
32. Jordan T.E. and Weller D.E. 1996. Human contributions to terrestrial nitrogen flux. Bioscience 46: 655-664.
33. Kideys A.E. 2002. Fall and rise of the black sea ecosystem. Science 297: 1482-1484.
34. Marrero L. 1950. Geografía de Cuba. Talleres Tipográficos Alfa, La Habana, 736 pp.
35. Nixon S.W. 1995. Coastal marine eutrophication: a definition, social causes, and future concerns. Ophelia 41: 199-219.
36. Matson P.A., Mc Dowell W.H., Townsend A.R. and Vitousek P.M. 1999. The globalization of N deposition: ecosystem consequences in tropical environments. Biogeochemistry 46: 67-83.
37. ONE 2002. Oficina Nacional de Estadísticas. Anuario Estadístico de Cuba 2001, (Yearbook of Statistics 2001) (Spanish), 335 pp.
38. Pearl H. 1985. Enhancement of marine primary production by nitrogen-enriched acid rain. Nature 315: 747-749.
39. Peoples M.B., Herridgeand D.F. and Ladha J.K. 1995. Biological nitrogen fixation: an efficient source of nitrogen for sustainable agricultural production?. Plant and soil 174: 3-28.
40. Rabalais N.N. 2002. Nitrogen in aquatic ecosystems. Ambio 31: 102-112.
41. Ryther J. and Dunstan W. 1971. Nitrogen, phosphorus, and eutrophication in the coastal marine environment. Science 171: 1008-1012.
42. Schimel D.S., Braswell B.H., McKeown R., Ojima D.S., Parton W.J. and Pulliam W. 1996. Climate and nitrogen controls on the geography and timescales of terrestrial biochemical cycling. Global Biogeochem. Cycles 10: 677-692.
43. Smil V. 1997. Global population and the nitrogen cycle. Scientific American July: 76-81.
44. Smil V. 1999. Nitrogen in crop production: an account of global flows. Global Biochem. Cycles 13: 647-662.
45. Smith E.E. 1954. The Forest of Cuba. Maria Moors Cabot Foundation Publ. 2, 98 pp.
46. Stockner J.G., Rydin E. and Hyenstrand P. 2000. Cultural oligotrophication: causes and consequences for fisheries resources. Fisheries 25(5): 7-14.
47. Tabío E.E. and Rey E. 1985. Prehistoria de Cuba. Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, La Habana, 234 pp.
48. Vitousek P.M., Aber J.D., Howarth R.W., Likens G.E., Matson P.A., Schindler D.W., Schlesinger W.H. and Tilman D.G. 1997. Human alteration of the global nitrogen cycle: sources and consequences. Ecol. Appl. 7: 737-750.
49. Watanabe I. 1986. Nitrogen fixation by non-legumes in tropical agriculture with special reference to wetland rice. Plant Soil 90: 343-357.
50. Yan W., Zhang S., Sun P. and Seitzinger S.P. 2003. How do nitrogen inputs to the Changjiang basin impact the Changjiang river nitrate: A temporal analysis for 1968-1997. Global Biochem. Cycles 17(4): 1091-1100.
51. WRI 2001. Nutrient Overload Unbalancing the Global Nitrogen Cycle. Earth Trends 2001. World Research Institute, pp.1-3.