1st Edition
Nitrogen Cycle Ecology, Biotechnological Applications and Environmental Impacts
Anthropogenic activity has clearly altered the N cycle contributing (among other factors) to climate change. This book aims to provide new biotechnological approach representing innovative strategies to solve specific problems related to the imbalance originating in the N cycle. Aspects such as new conceptions in agriculture, wastewater treatment, and greenhouse gas emissions are discussed in this book with a multidisciplinary vision. A team of international authors with wide experience have contributed up-to-date reviews, highlighting scientific principles and their environmental importance and integrating different biotechnological processes in environmental technology.
The Nitrogen Cycle: An Overview
Massimiliano Fenice
The Nitrogen Fixation Dream: The Challenges and the Future
Allen G. Good and Ray Dixon
Nitrogen Cycle in Agriculture: Biotic and Abiotic Factors Regulating Nitrogen Losses
María López-Aizpún, Antonio Castellano-Hinojosa, Jesús González-López, Eulogio J. Bedmar, Nadine Loick, Harry Barrat, Yan Ma, Dave Chadwick and Laura M. Cardenas
Nitrification and Denitrification Processes: Environmental Impacts
Jessica Purswani and Clementina Pozo Llorente
The Contribution of Fungi and Their Lifestyle in the Nitrogen Cycle
Mercedes García Sánchez, Sergio Saia and Elisabet Aranda
Biotechnological Applications of Bioeffectors Derived From the Plant Microbiome to Improve Plant’s Physiological Response for a Better Adaptation to Biotic and Abiotic Stress: Fundamentals and Case Studies
Ana García-Villaraco, Jose Antonio Lucas, Beatriz Ramos-Solano and Francisco Javier Gutierrez-Mañero
Anammox Process: Biotechnological Impact
Alejandro Gonzalez-Martinez, Irina Levchuk and Riku Vahala
Nitrogen Cycle in Wastewater Treatment Plants
Belén Rodelas
Nitrogenized and Chlorinated Compounds Pollutants From Industrial Wastewater: Their Environmental Impacts and Bioremediation Strategies
Jonathan Parades-Aguilar, F. Javier Almendariz-Tapia, Roberto Vázquez-Euán, Marco A. López-Torres, Luis R. Martínez-Córdova and Kadiya Calderón
Simultaneous Nitrification and Denitrification Processes in Granular Sludge Technology
Barbara Muñoz-Palazón, Miguel Hurtado-Martinez and Jesus Gonzalez-Lopez
Anaerobic Removal of Nitrogen: Nitrate-Dependent Methane Oxidation and Bioelectrochemical Processes
Alejandro Rodriguez-Sanchez, Beatriz Gil-Pulido, Alan Dobson and Niall O’Leary
Influence of Cover Crops on Nitrogen Cycling and the Soil Microbial Community
Antonio Castellano-Hinojosa, Clayton J. Nevins and Sarah L. Strauss
Biography
Prof. Jesus Gonzalez-Lopez Head of the Environmental Microbiology and Engineering Research Group (University of Granada), has extensive experience in water technology and environmental research. He has 396 publications, with h-index of 53, 12 patents and is consultant for companies such as Veolia, SACYR and Repsol-YPF, among others. He has coordinated EU projects (11 framework programmes, 3 training networks, cost actions, and 1 Marie Curie grant holders, an ASEAN-EU environmental biotechnology network program).
Dr. Alejandro Gonzalez-Martinez is an assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Granada. Among the researcher’s scientific achievements, he has 70 peer-reviewed publications, an H-index of 21 and 1 patent. He has been working in several European public-funded R&D projects (i.e Life+, Grundvig, FP7, Leonardo da Vinci-Transfer of Innovation) and has cooperated with International private companies (i.e Hidralia, Sacyr-Valoriza, Cetaqua, CLH, Ekokem, Fortum, among others).
