Integrated reactive nitrogen budgets and future trends in China

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 28, 2015, Pages 8792-8797

  Gu, Baojing ^a   Ju, Xiaotang ^b   Chang, Jie ^c   Ge, Ying ^c   Vitousek, Peter M ^d  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Food production; Human health; Industrial nitrogen; National budget; Reactive nitrogen

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN;

ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BUDGET; CHINA; CROPLAND; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FOOD INDUSTRY; HUMAN; HYDROSPHERE; NITROGEN BALANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECYCLING; THREAT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HISTORY;

ANIMALIA;

CHINA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; NITROGEN;

EID: 84937232323     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1510211112     Document Type: Article

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