A tradeoff frontier for global nitrogen use and cereal production

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Mueller, Nathaniel D ^a,b   West, Paul C ^b   Gerber, James S ^b   Macdonald, Graham K ^b   Polasky, Stephen ^c   Foley, Jonathan A ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c Department of Applied Economics ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

agriculture; crop yield; fertilizer; nitrogen

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; AIR QUALITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROPS; CULTIVATION; FERTILIZERS; NITROGEN; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS; CEREAL PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES; ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS; POLITICAL CONSTRAINTS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION;

NITROGEN FERTILIZERS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRONOMY; AIR QUALITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; MAIZE; NITROGEN; RESOURCE USE; RICE; SOIL SURFACE; WATER QUALITY; WHEAT;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84928101811     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/5/054002     Document Type: Article

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