An Assessment of the Variation of Manure Nitrogen Efficiency throughout Europe and an Appraisal of Means to Increase Manure-N Efficiency

Advances in Agronomy

Volumn 119, Issue , 2013, Pages 371-442

  Webb, J ^a   Sørensen, Peter ^b   Velthof, Gerard ^c   Amon, Barbara ^d   Pinto, Miriam ^e   Rodhe, Lena ^f   Salomon, Eva ^f   Hutchings, Nicholas ^b   Burczyk, Piotr ^g   Reid, Joanne ^a  

^a AEA   (United Kingdom)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING AND BIOECONOMY ATB   (Germany)

^e NEIKER and a Vaccine producing Commercial Company CZVSL   (Spain)

^f Swedish Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering (JTI)   (Sweden)

^g INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Crop; Efficiency; Fertilizer; Manure; Manure N; Nitrate; Nitrogen; Uptake

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871361864     PISSN: 00652113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-407247-3.00007-X     Document Type: Chapter

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