Too much nitrogen reduces Alpine plant diversity

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Too much nitrogen reduces Alpine plant diversity,
April 15, 2015,
By Tim Radford,
Climate News Network,

Carbon dioxide isn't the only greenhouse gas to change the world. Swiss scientists have just confirmed that nitrous oxide and other forms of atmospheric nitrogen deposition - from agriculture, from factory chimneys and motor exhausts and so on - is altering the grasses and wildflowers of the Alps and the valleys.