Getting to the Root of Nitrogen Fixation 

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I am from the Netherlands, and as you might have heard my country has to deal with large protests from farmers. The government wants to shut down a substantial amount of farmers because we have a huge nitrogen and ammonia emission problem. That is, we have too much of it. In the Netherlands we have more than 520 large farm animals per square kilometer, and we have an equal amount of poultry and humans at any given moment in time. It's been said that the huge nitrogen and ammonia emissions cause the water and the soil to become too acidic which causes a huge decline in insect, plant and bird numbers and species. But I am wondering what it does to the bacteria when they get too much nitrogen and ammonia to endure? Whether they are directly affected or indirectly because their habitat becomes too acidic for them to live. I want to have a better total understanding how this type of pollution is affecting the ecosystems and in this case the bacteria in particular. Defenders for the farmers pro-dominantly use the defense that nitrogen is good for the plants. But it is like the discussion about the differences between the weather and the climate. They say it is good for the "plants", but plants do not make up the entire ecosystem. And not all the plants like the same conditions. I hope that you or anyone else with a respectable reputation could help me out to get a better total understanding:-)

I totally agree with your point but I also find it fascinating that we would never evolve (the way we did) without something being able to utilize and pass on nitrogen. Life would quite literally be completely different

@@diamondisgood4uthat’s like saying why doesn’t life grow with sulfuric acid

I dont really know of any nitrogen fixing plants that are not also mycorrhizal. Could be wrong, always learning.

that would be indeed very interesting to check out

I don't know what is it but I'm all for

@@Sife-db it's basically fungus that lives in symbiosis with plants by connecting to their roots and they help each other out.

I had to read this comment twice before I realized I actually had a vague, basic understanding of everything you said. :D I'm proud of my brain.

@@Oxtrooo And if the plant doesn't give the fungus what it wants the fungus goes somewhere else and lets the plant die - simple version

Haha good one

I don't have a nitrogen problem, I only take it with hydrogen.

@@MichaelLeightonsKarlyPilkboys But how much hydrogen do you take with oxygen each day?

I had my memoirs of my nitrogen fixation on my laptop but then I forgot it at the damn repair shop....oh well....

You cant fix nitrogen until its broken.

Bump because I would also like to know more about how excess of fertilizants provokes excess nitrifying bacteria in rivers; and how that excess of bacteria tints the water green, difficulting the correct oxigenation of water and affects aquatic macrorganisms

hey! i have a question, why these microbes are seen as acquatic? aren't they present in our soils? sorry for ignorance

Me too~

It doesn’t begin to explain the complexity of the nitrogen fixation process. For the past hundred years the holy Grail of biochemistry has been to find a way to do this at low temperatures and pressures Very shallow coverage of this very important study

if it makes you feel any better, one little Nostoc can't really do very much. :3

@@funkylentil6966 but it can do a lot for a poor little sweet potato 🥔

Nah man. With a word you can change those around you. A little bit of kindness, compassion, empathy and you can set someone's day, week, year, life off on a completely different path. Bacteria can fix nitrogen but people can fix people

@Pinko Slink Source?

@Pinko Slink No, if a person fixates on helping someone else, to the detriment of their own life, that is a mental illness. Helping your fellow human, and making shure they're mentally well, is a "social" trait that we all have. Do some research, please.

kind of fits into the "death and decay of other living organisms"

But they don't know about Joshua

@@pain_of_rose That's also my first name. The notification with your comment popped up without context and scared the crap outta me. heh

@@TheRealMirCat omfg I'm sorry that's funny 🤣🤣🤣

so your government decided to ban nitrogen?!

This sounds fascinating!

To be fair early in the solar system environments were probably generally quite reduced due to the abundance of hydrogen that had yet to escape the terrestrial worlds such that it wouldn't have been a problem. Of course the Lunar formation impact my have changed that somewhat but still under the Synestia model Earth and our moon would rather have precipitated out of a roiling disk of gas so at least some of that primordial atmosphere would likely have persisted for some time.

Those are colonies of bacteria, not a single organism.

@@innrex9028 Regardless, whether these are considered colonial organisms or a multicellular organism, I still found out multicellular bacteria are a thing by following up on rabbit hole starting with the heterocysts from the video. I admittedly am not yet familiar with the topic enough to determine how the line is drawn, but I can confidently say magnetoglobus multicellularis, for example, exists.

I think growing animals makes you a rancher, not a farmer

@@driverjayne but ranching mosquitoes sounds like you're gonna eat em...

@@driverjayne Perhaps. 🙄 I've never heard of a poultry rancher or a dairy rancher

Yeah, you all laugh, but you've never had to face a mosquito stampede....

Lmao

I had a pleasant enjoyable experience, sorry you didn't.

@@the.mermaid.scientist all good, not everything can be nice while high