Improved Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Crop Production at the Catchment Scale via a Process-Based Nitrogen Simulation Model

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 10790-10796

  Liao, Wenjie ^a   Van Der Werf, Hayo M G ^a   Salmon Monviola, Jordy ^a  

^a AGROCAMPUS OUEST   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CATCHMENTS; CROPS; CULTIVATION; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FERTILIZERS; RUNOFF;

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES; BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; LIFE CYCLE INVENTORY DATABASE; NITROGEN SIMULATION MODEL; NITROGEN TRANSFER; SPATIAL INTERACTION;

LIFE CYCLE;

NITROGEN; FERTILIZER; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; SOIL;

AGRICULTURAL MODELING; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROP IMPROVEMENT; CROP PRODUCTION; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP PRODUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EUTROPHICATION; EXHAUST GAS; FRANCE; HARVEST; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; SOIL; AGRICULTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROP; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL;

FRANCE;

AGRICULTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROP PRODUCTION; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; FERTILIZERS; FRANCE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITRATES; NITROGEN; SOIL;

EID: 84941702742     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b01347     Document Type: Article

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