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Fertilizer recommendations (FR) to improve yields and increase profitability are based on relationships between crop yields and soil nutrient levels measured via soil extraction methods. Within these FR, criti...
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Halving nitrogen pollution is crucial for achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, how to reduce nitrogen pollution from multiple sources remains challenging. Here we show that reactive nitroge...
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An increase in nitrogen (N) recovery efficiency, also denoted as N use efficiency (NUEr), is crucial to reconcile food production and environmental health. This study assessed the effects of nutrient, crop and...
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Open AccessSafe and just Earth system boundaries
The stability and resilience of the Earth system and human well-being are inseparably linked1–3, yet their interdependencies are generally under-recognized; consequently, they are often treated independently4,5. ...
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Open AccessPublisher Correction: Cost-effective mitigation of nitrogen pollution from global croplands
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Open AccessCost-effective mitigation of nitrogen pollution from global croplands
Cropland is a main source of global nitrogen pollution1,2. Mitigating nitrogen pollution from global croplands is a grand challenge because of the nature of non-point-source pollution from millions of farms and t...
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Open AccessImpacts of harvesting methods on nutrient removal in Dutch forests exposed to high-nitrogen deposition
Forest harvest removal may cause nutrient depletion of soils, when removal of essential nutrients, including nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), sulphur (S), calcium (Ca), potassium (K) and magnesium (Mg) exceeds th...
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Author Correction: Reconciling regional nitrogen boundaries with global food security
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Open AccessRetention of deposited ammonium and nitrate and its impact on the global forest carbon sink
The impacts of enhanced nitrogen (N) deposition on the global forest carbon (C) sink and other ecosystem services may depend on whether N is deposited in reduced (mainly as ammonium) or oxidized forms (mainly ...
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Reconciling regional nitrogen boundaries with global food security
While nitrogen inputs are crucial to agricultural production, excess nitrogen contributes to serious ecosystem damage and water pollution. Here, we investigate this trade-off using an integrated modelling fram...
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Open AccessClimate change impacts on rainfed maize yields in Zambia under conventional and optimized crop management
Maize production in Zambia is characterized by significant yield gaps attributed to nutrient management and climate change threatens to widen these gaps unless agronomic management is optimized. Insights in th...
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Open AccessSustainable forest biomass: a review of current residue harvesting guidelines
Forest biomass harvesting guidelines help ensure the ecological sustainability of forest residue harvesting for bioenergy and bioproducts, and hence contribute to social license for a growing bioeconomy. Guide...
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Open AccessImpact hotspots of reduced nutrient discharge shift across the globe with population and dietary changes
Reducing nutrient discharge from wastewater is essential to mitigating aquatic eutrophication; however, energy- and chemicals-intensive nutrient removal processes, accompanied with the emissions of airborne co...
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Open AccessAssessment of uncertainties in greenhouse gas emission profiles of livestock sectors in Africa, Latin America and Europe
The global animal food chain has a large contribution to the global anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, but its share and sources vary highly across the world. However, the assessment of GHG emission...
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Erratum: Ecologically implausible carbon response?
Nature 451, E1–E3 (2008)10.1038/nature06579 In this Brief Communication Arising, the name of Daniel Laubhann was incorrectly listed as Daniel Laubhahn.
