Modelling spatially explicit impacts from phosphorus emissions in agriculture

International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 785-795

  Scherer, Laura ^a   Pfister, Stephan ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Erosion; Eutrophication; Life cycle assessment; Life cycle impact assessment; Phosphorus emissions; Regionalisation

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHORUS;

ARTICLE; EUTROPHICATION; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; MAIZE; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; PHYSICOCHEMICAL MODEL; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL EROSION; SOYBEAN; SPECIES RICHNESS; SWISS AGRICULTURAL LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS MODEL; UNIVERSAL SOIL LOSS EQUATION MODEL; WATER CONTAMINATION; WHEAT;

EID: 84929843805     PISSN: 09483349     EISSN: 16147502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11367-015-0880-0     Document Type: Article

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