Food benefit and climate warming potential of nitrogen fertilizer uses in China

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Tian, Hanqin ^a   Lu, Chaoqun ^a   Melillo, Jerry ^b   Ren, Wei ^a   Huang, Yao ^c   Xu, Xiaofeng ^a   Liu, Mingliang ^a   Zhang, Chi ^a,d   Chen, Guangsheng ^a   Pan, Shufen ^a   Liu, Jiyuan ^e   Reilly, John ^f  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^d XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^f MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; FOOD SUPPLY; NITROGEN; NITROGEN OXIDES;

C SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE WARMING; ECOSYSTEM MODEL; FOOD SECURITY; GLOBAL CLIMATE WARMING; MIDDLE AND LOWER REACHES OF YANGTZE RIVERS; NITROUS OXIDE; NORTH CHINA PLAIN;

NITROGEN FERTILIZERS;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CROP YIELD; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FOOD SECURITY; GLOBAL WARMING; NITROGEN; SOIL CARBON;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA PLAIN; YANGTZE BASIN;

EID: 84871845432     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/4/044020     Document Type: Article

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