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Sicheng Zhao, Tingyu Li, Guogang Wang and Yongxiang Zhang
With the progress of economic development and increase in income, there have been significant transformations in the food consumption patterns among Chinese residents. Grain consumption has declined while the consumption of livestock products such as mea...
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Marlia M. Hanafiah, Mark A.J. Huijbregts and A. Jan Hendriks
The ecological footprint (EF) commonly neglects the influence of other stressors than land use and CO2 emissions on the land area required for human activities. This study analyzes the relevancy of including nutrients and non-CO2 gr...
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George L. Vourlitis, Emma Lousie van der Veen, Sebastian Cangahuala, Garrett Jaeger, Colin Jensen, Cinzia Fissore, Eric M. Wood, Joel K. Abraham, Kevin S. Whittemore, Elijah Slaven, Dustin VanOverbeke, James Blauth, Elizabeth Braker, Nina Karnovsky and Wallace M. Meyer III
Urban landscaping conversions can alter decomposition processes and soil respiration, making it difficult to forecast regional CO2 emissions. Here we explore rates of initial mass loss and net nitrogen (N) mineralization in natural and four common urban ...
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Cornelia Hesse, Valentina Krysanova
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Eco-hydrological water quality modeling for integrated water resources management of river basins should include all necessary landscape and in-stream nutrient processes as well as possible changes in boundary conditions and driving forces for nutrient b...
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Mar Carreras-Sempere, Miriam Guivernau, Rafaela Caceres, Carmen Biel, Joan Noguerol and Marc Viñas
Struvite and ammonium nitrate (AN), as wastewater-recovered products, are possible alternatives as raw materials for nutrient solutions. However, their impact on the rhizosphere microbiota and N2O emissions is scarcely known. Therefore, the present resea...
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Xiaofeng Liang, Hong Wang, Yudan Zhang, Rui Yang, Dongdong Zhang, Wanlai Zhou, Zhiyong Qi and Wei Lin
Peat-based substrates have been widely used in greenhouse vegetable production (GVP). However, peat is a non-renewable resource, and there is a problem with N2O emissions when it is used in greenhouse vegetable production due to the application of large ...
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Pauline Sophie Rummel, Reinhard Well, Johanna Pausch, Birgit Pfeiffer and Klaus Dittert
Returning crop residues to agricultural fields can accelerate nutrient turnover and increase N2O and NO emissions. Increased microbial respiration may lead to formation of local hotspots with anoxic or microoxic conditions promoting denitrification. To i...
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Noppol Arunrat, Sukanya Sereenonchai and Nathsuda Pumijumnong
Environmental and socio-economic evaluations that imply techniques for mitigating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from rice cultivation are a challenging and controversial issue. This study was designed to investigate the potential use of mitigation techn...
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Stephen Yeboah, Shirley Lamptey, Liqun Cai and Min Song
In rainfed agricultural ecosystems in northwest China, improving soil fertility and reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are key factors for developing sustainable agriculture. This study determined the short-term effects of different biochar amendmen...
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Alicia B. Speratti, Joan Romanyà, Jordi Garcia-Pausas and Mark S. Johnson
Sugarcane filtercake is a nutrient-rich residue produced prior to sugarcane distillation and is commonly disposed of by applying directly to agricultural fields, often causing high decomposition and leaching rates. Transforming this material into biochar...
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Deb Raj Aryal, Danilo Enrique Morales Ruiz, César Noé Tondopó Marroquín, René Pinto Ruiz, Francisco Guevara Hernández, José Apolonio Venegas Venegas, Alejandro Ponce Mendoza, Gilberto Villanueva López, Fernando Casanova Lugo, Luis Alfredo Rodríguez Larramendi, Alejandro Ley de Coss, Adalberto Hernández López, Francisco Javier Medina Jonapá, Carlos Alberto Velázquez Sanabria, Alejandro Alcudia Aguilar and Isaí Euán Chi
Land use change from forests to grazing lands is one of the important sources of greenhouse gas emissions in many parts of the tropics. The objective of this study was to analyze the extent of soil organic carbon (SOC) loss from the conversion of native ...
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Matthias Zessner, Ottavia Zoboli, Gerold Hepp, Max Kuderna, Christine Weinberger and Oliver Gabriel
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Phosphorus (P) impairment of surface waters still represents a major concern worldwide, despite decades of awareness and implementation of remedial measures. In view of this situation, it is all the more necessary to provide decision makers with reliable...
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Chunyan Chai, Dawei Zhang, Yanling Yu, Yujie Feng and Man Sing Wong
With rapid urbanization and infrastructure investment, wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in Chinese cities are putting increased pressure on energy consumption and exacerbating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. A carbon footprint is provided as a tool to...
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Jaroslav Korba, Petr ?arec, Václav Novák, Pavel Bro?, Antonín Dolan and Martin Dedina
Digestate is commonly used as a liquid organic fertilizer, as it contains nutrients that are important for plant growth and thus help reduce usage of mineral fertilizers. Since the digestate application leads to the release of greenhouse gases (GHGs) int...
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Mariangela Diacono, Alessandro Persiani, Vincenzo Alfano, Antonio Monteforte and Francesco Montemurro
In the Mediterranean area, using organic fertilizers is crucial to maintaining and increasing soil fertility and crop productivity since soil organic matter is being progressively depleted due to climate change effects. Therefore, the aim of this study w...
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Larry E. Chase and Riccardo Fortina
The dairy industry is under pressure to reduce its environmental impact while producing more milk to meet society?s needs. Precision feed management (PFM) is one tool that can be used to meet this challenge. A simple definition of PFM is to provide adequ...
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Khaled Gadulrab, Pola Sidoruk, Martyna Kozlowska, Malgorzata Szumacher-Strabel, Dorota Lechniak, Pawel Kolodziejski, Jaroslaw Pytlewski, Nina Strzalkowska, Jaroslaw Olav Horbanczuk, Artur Józwik, Yulianri Rizki Yanza, Agung Irawan, Amlan Kumar Patra and Adam Cieslak
Industrial fruit by-products are now being utilized as animal feeds for several reasons. They may substitute the conventional cereal feeds, and also offer economic and environmental benefits. One of the most important industrial fruit by-products is appl...
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Chungwoo Kim, Denver I. Walitang, Aritra Roy Choudhury, Yi Lee, Sanghun Lee, Hyenchung Chun, Tae-Young Heo, Kido Park and Tongmin Sa
Maintaining rice yield, soil function, and fertility are essential components of long-term compost fertilization. However, paddy fields are major sources of anthropogenic methane emissions. The aim of the study is to evaluate the changes in soil chemical...
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Diego Copetti and Franco Salerno
The interaction of climate with aquatic ecosystems is a multidisciplinary field of research involving water quantity and quality issues and having strong socio-economic implications. This special issue hosts 10 studies undertaken in 7 countries of 4 cont...
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Abdul Rasyid Harsha Settinayake
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Frequent application of fertilizer in plantations to overcome nutrient loss often results in negative impacts such as soil acidification, nutrient lockout, eutrophication, and greenhouse gas emissions. This study investigated the application of a novel s...
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