The Nitrogen Hypothesis and the English Agricultural Revolution: A Biological Analysis.
A biological model of nitrogen in agriculture is specified for early modern England and used to analyze the growth in grain yields from the middle ages to the industrial revolution. Nitrogen-fixing plants accounted for about half of the rise in yields; the rest came from better cultivation, seeds, a...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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CUP
2008
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