Scenario analysis on protein consumption and climate change effects on riverine N export to the baltic sea

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2379-2385

  Hägg, Hanna Eriksson ^a   Humbohg, Christoph ^a   Morth, Carl Magnus ^a   Medina, Miguel Rodriguez ^a   Wulff, Fredrik ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION PLAN; ANIMAL PROTEINS; ATMOSPHERIC NITROGEN DEPOSITION; BALTIC SEA; CLIMATE SCENARIOS; FINLAND; MULTIPLE REGRESSIONS; NET EFFECT; NITROGEN LOADING; POSSIBLE FUTURES; PRIMARY EMISSIONS; RIVER DISCHARGE; SCENARIO ANALYSIS; TOTAL NITROGEN;

AGRICULTURE; CATCHMENTS; NITROGEN; PROTEINS; RUNOFF;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

NITROGEN;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NITROGEN; NITROGEN CYCLE; PROTEIN; RIVER DISCHARGE; RUNOFF;

ARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CATCHMENT; CATTLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; FIELD EMISSION; HUMAN; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN INTAKE; RIVER; SEA; SWINE;

ANIMALS; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HUMANS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOTION; NITROGEN; OCEANS AND SEAS; PROTEINS; RIVERS;

ANIMALIA; BOS; SUIDAE;

EID: 77950400980     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es902632p     Document Type: Article

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