Understanding and managing the impacts of human nitrogen deposition in endangered bay area serpentine grasslands
Zavaleta, E. S., P. L. Koch, Z. Tzankova and P. Selmants. 2010. Kearney Foundation of Soil Science Final Report
Abstract
In recent decades, fertilizer use and fossil fuel consumption have vastly increased nitrogen (N)
availability in many ecosystems. Understanding and addressing the effects of increasing N is
critically important to land stewardship, particularly in ecosystems of high conservation value.
The goals of this project were to document and understand the effects of ongoing N
deposition on serpentine grassland ecosystems, and the effectiveness of management and
policy strategies available to mitigate these effects in the San Francisco Bay Area.
