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Report on Water Security and Ecosystem Services

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Report on Water Security and Ecosystem Services

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TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................11. Nitrogen cycle and its transmission from medium to another............................................12. Consequences of human modifications on the nitrogen cycle...........................................2Implications ...........................................................................................................................5CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
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INTRODUCTIONNitrogen cycle can be classified as a series of processes in which the procedure of interconversion of nitrogen and its compounds takes place. Also, there are various human activitiesresponsible that has some influence on the flow of nitrogen in the nitrogen cycle and thesefactors can involve deforestation, erosion, excess use of nitrogen based fertilizers etc. So, propermeasures can be taken in order to control the flow of nitrogen in the nitrogen cycle. The report isabout understanding the flow of nitrogen in the nitrogen cycle. Also, it includes variousconsequences of basic human activities that also has some influence on the flow of nitrogen innitrogen cycle. 1. Nitrogen cycle and its transmission from medium to anotherNitrogen cycle is considered as a biogeochemical cycle which helps in an efficientconversion of nitrogen into different chemical forms as it undergoes various changes. There arevarious process involved in the formation of nitrogen cycle and these involve nitrification,denitrification, fixation etc. In actual, the composition of nitrogen involves nucleic acids andproteins. There can be enormous number of examples concluded on the behalf of flow ofnitrogen in the nitrogen cycle from medium to another. A very common example of this can betermed as the fact that when micro-organisms die, the process of decomposition takes place,which results in the presence of nitrogen in soil or in water. There are bacteria's also present inthe soil, so these bacteria's changes the nitrogen in a form that can seem usable by the plants.Bacteria's here play a quite important role. The amount of nitrogen that is being placed in thewater bodies is being changed in a form that it becomes capable enough to return to theatmosphere (Galloway and et.al, 2013). The flow of nitrogen can be described easily by focusing on the stages of the nitrogencycle more deeply. The whole cycle is composed of five process and these are fixation ofnitrogen, assimilation, ammonification, nitrification and denitrification. In nitrogen fixation, thenitrogen is being converted from atmospheric form to the biological one. By this way, it can bewell prepared for the plants. The procedure is also classified as anaerobic that also helps inmaking the reduction process of nitrogen in ammonia faster. A very common example of thisfixation can be considered as the Rhizobium bacteria that is available inside the roots of peas,soya beans etc. In Nitrification, the ions of ammonia are being converted in form of nitrides andafter that the same is being converted into nitrates. All this is being achieved by the help of1
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