منابع مشابه
The global food supply.
There is currently a wide divergence of opinion as to whether in the year 2000 there will be sufficient food supplies to feed a prospective world population of 7 billion. The pessimists warn that even before that time there may be widespread outbreaks of famine, complete exhaustion of our natural resources, a hopelessly deteriorated physical environment, and a world ruled by virtual chaos. The ...
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of the dissertation submitted to Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Potsdam Food Demand and Supply under Global Change
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Harvests of crops, their trade and consumption, soil erosion, fertilization and recycling of organic waste generate fluxes of phosphorus in and out of the soil that continuously change the worldwide spatial distribution of total phosphorus in arable soils. Furthermore, due to variability in the properties of the virgin soils and the different histories of agricultural practices, on a planetary ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 1970
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.67.2.900