Alarming nutrient pollution of Chinese rivers as a result of agricultural transitions

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Strokal, Maryna ^a   Ma, Lin ^b   Bai, Zhaohai ^b   Luan, Shengji ^c   Kroeze, Carolien ^a,d   Oenema, Oene ^a   Velthof, Gerard ^a   Zhang, Fusuo ^e  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^e CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

agricultural transitions; China; integrated modeling; nutrient pollution; rivers

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; CULTIVATION; EUTROPHICATION; FERTILIZERS; MANURES; NUTRIENTS; POLLUTION; RIVERS;

ANIMAL PRODUCTION; ANIMAL PRODUCTION SYSTEMS; CHINA; CROP PRODUCTION; DISSOLVED NITROGEN; ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS; INTEGRATED MODELING; NUTRIENT POLLUTION;

RIVER POLLUTION;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANIMAL PRODUCT; ARABLE FARMING; CROP PRODUCTION; EUTROPHICATION; MANURE; NITROGEN; NUMERICAL MODEL; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PHOSPHORUS; RIVER BASIN; RIVER DISCHARGE; WATER POLLUTION;

CHINA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84959432426     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/2/024014     Document Type: Article

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