Quantification of global and national nitrogen budgets for crop production.


Journal

Nature food
ISSN: 2662-1355
Titre abrégé: Nat Food
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101761102

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Jul 2021
Historique:
received: 03 06 2020
accepted: 02 06 2021
medline: 1 7 2021
pubmed: 1 7 2021
entrez: 28 4 2023
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Input-output estimates of nitrogen on cropland are essential for improving nitrogen management and better understanding the global nitrogen cycle. Here, we compare 13 nitrogen budget datasets covering 115 countries and regions over 1961-2015. Although most datasets showed similar spatiotemporal patterns, some annual estimates varied widely among them, resulting in large ranges and uncertainty. In 2010, global medians (in TgN yr

Identifiants

pubmed: 37117677
doi: 10.1038/s43016-021-00318-5
pii: 10.1038/s43016-021-00318-5
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

529-540

Subventions

Organisme : National Science Foundation (NSF)
ID : CNS-1739823
Organisme : National Science Foundation (NSF)
ID : CNS-1739823
Organisme : National Science Foundation (NSF)
ID : DEB-1049744/1547041

Informations de copyright

© 2021. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.

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Auteurs

Xin Zhang (X)

Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Frostburg, MD, USA. xin.zhang@umces.edu.

Tan Zou (T)

Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Frostburg, MD, USA.

Luis Lassaletta (L)

CEIGRAM/Department of Agricultural Production, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

Nathaniel D Mueller (ND)

Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.

Francesco N Tubiello (FN)

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.

Matthew D Lisk (MD)

Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Frostburg, MD, USA.

Chaoqun Lu (C)

Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA.

Richard T Conant (RT)

Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.

Christopher D Dorich (CD)

Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.

James Gerber (J)

Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

Hanqin Tian (H)

International Center for Climate and Global Change Research, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA.

Tom Bruulsema (T)

Plant Nutrition Canada, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

Tai McClellan Maaz (TM)

University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA.
Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Washington State University, Seattle, WA, USA.

Kazuya Nishina (K)

National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan.

Benjamin Leon Bodirsky (BL)

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Member of the Leibniz Association, Potsdam, Germany.

Alexander Popp (A)

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Member of the Leibniz Association, Potsdam, Germany.

Lex Bouwman (L)

PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, The Hague, The Netherlands.
Department of Earth Sciences-Geochemistry, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Key Laboratory of Marine Chemistry Theory and Technology, Ministry of Education, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China.

Arthur Beusen (A)

PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, The Hague, The Netherlands.
Department of Earth Sciences-Geochemistry, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Jinfeng Chang (J)

Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.
College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.

Petr Havlík (P)

Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.

David Leclère (D)

Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.

Josep G Canadell (JG)

Global Carbon Project, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

Robert B Jackson (RB)

Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

Patrick Heffer (P)

International Fertilizer Association, Paris, France.

Nathan Wanner (N)

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.

Weifeng Zhang (W)

China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.

Eric A Davidson (EA)

Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Frostburg, MD, USA. edavidson@umces.edu.

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