1st Edition
Short-cutting the Phosphorus Cycle in Urban Ecosystems
By Bekithemba Gumbo
Copyright 2005
348 Pages
by
CRC Press
348 Pages
by
CRC Press
348 Pages
by
CRC Press
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This dissertation presents a methodology of short-cutting the phosphorus cycle in urban ecosystems. In nature, the P-cycle is a circular, closed-loop system, but human activities use and dispose P in a linear, open-ended system leading to the customary environmental problems. Lake Chivero in Zimbabwe is used as a case study to illustrate the unsustainable practice of discharging valuable and... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Biogeochemistry of phosphorous global transfers and cycles
Chapter 3 Description of study area
Chapter 4 Establishing fluxes and stocks in an urban-shed
Chapter 5 Options for short-cutting the phosphorus cycle
Chapter 6 Conclusions
Chapter 7 Epilogue
Biography
Bekithemba Gumbo
