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Biogeochemistry

the condition in which nitrogen inputs exceed the needs of plants and microbes, so an ecosystem starts losing nitrate and suffers acidification and decline.

In biogeochemistry, nitrogen saturation refers to the condition in which nitrogen inputs exceed the needs of plants and microbes, so an ecosystem starts losing nitrate and suffers acidification and decline. This meaning comes from Aber (1989) in BioScience.[1]

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References

Aber, J. D., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Steudler, P., & Melillo, J. M. (1989). Nitrogen Saturation in Northern Forest Ecosystems. BioScience, 39(6), 378-386. https://doi.org/10.2307/1311067

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