50 year trends in nitrogen use efficiency of world cropping systems: the relationship between yield and nitrogen input to cropland

Nitrogen (N) is crucial for crop productivity. However, nowadays more than half of the N added to cropland is lost to the environment, wasting the resource, producing threats to air, water, soil and biodiversity, and generating greenhouse gas emissions. Based on FAO data, we have reconstructed the t...

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Main Authors: Luis Lassaletta, Gilles Billen, Bruna Grizzetti, Juliette Anglade, Josette Garnier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2014-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/9/10/105011