Climate- and crop-responsive emission factors significantly alter estimates of current and future nitrous oxide emissions from fertilizer use

Global Change Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1522-1536

  Flynn, Helen C ^a   Smith, Jo ^a   Smith, Keith A ^b   Wright, Jim ^b,d   Smith, Pete ^a   Massheder, Jon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c ETTC   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agricultural soils; Climate change; Emission factors; Fertilizer; Grazing; IPCC; Land use change; Modelling; Nitrous oxide; Scotland

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; LAND USE CHANGE; NITROUS OXIDE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33745136088     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2005.00998.x     Document Type: Article

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