Publications of Virtual Joint Centres in Agricultural Nitrogen

Journal Papers

2019

Chuanzhen Zhang, Shen Liu, Shuxia Wu, Shuqin Jin, Stefan Reis, Hongbin Liu, Baojing Gu, 2019. Rebuilding the linkage between livestock and cropland to mitigate agricultural pollution in China, Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 144:65-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2019.01.011

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2018

Bing Gao, Tao Huang, Xiaotang Ju, Baojing Gu, Wei Huang, Lilai Xu, Robert M. Rees, David S. Powlson, Pete Smith, Shenghui Cui. 2018. Chinese cropping systems are a net source of greenhouse gases despite soil carbon sequestration, Glob Change Biol. 24:5590–5606. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14425

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Xiaotong Song, Min Liu, Xiaotang Ju, Bing Gao, Fang Su, Xinping Chen, and Robert M Rees, 2018, Nitrous oxide emissions increase exponentially when optimum nitrogen fertilizer rates are exceeded in the North China plain, European Journal of Soil Biology, 88, 27-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejsobi.2018.05.008

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Gao, S., Chang, D., Zou, C., Cao, W., Gao, J.., Huang, J., Bai, J., Zeng, N., Rees, R.M. & Thorup-Kristensen, K. 2018. Archaea are the predominant and responsive ammonia oxidizing prokaryotes in a red paddy soil receiving green manures. European Journal of Soil Biology, 88, 27-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejsobi.2018.05.008

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Dan Zhang, Hongyuan Wang, Junting Pan, Jiafa Luo, Jian Liu, Baojing Gu, Shen Liu, Limei Zhai, Stuart Lindsey, Yitao Zhang, Qiuliang Lei, Shuxia Wu, Pete Smith, Hongbin, Liu, 2018, Nitrogen application rates need to be reduced for half of the rice paddy fields in China, Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, Volume 265: 8-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2018.05.023

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Bing Gao, Tao Huang, Xiaotang Ju, Baojing Gu, Wei Huang, Lilai Xu, Robert M. Rees, David S. Powlson, Pete Smith, Shenghui Cui, 2018, Chinese cropping systems are a net source of greenhouse gases despite soil carbon sequestration, Global Change Biology, 2018:1–17. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14425

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Andrew Balmford, Tatsuya Amano, Harriet Bartlett, Dave Chadwick, Adrian Collins, David Edwards, Rob FieldPhilip Garnsworthy, Rhys Green, Pete Smith, Helen Waters, Andrew Whitmore, Donald M. Broom, Julian Chara, Tom Finch , Emma Garnett, Alfred Gathorne-Hardy , Juan Hernandez-Medrano, Mario Herrero, Fangyuan Hua, Agnieszka Latawiec, Tom Misselbrook, Ben Phalan, Benno I. Simmons, Taro Takahashi, James Vause, Erasmus zu Ermgassen, Rowan Eisner, 2018, The environmental costs and benefits of high-yield farming, Nature Sustainability, Vol 1: 477–485.

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Yiyun Wu, Xican Xi, Xin Tang, Deming Luo, Baojing Gu, Shu Kee Lam, Peter M. Vitousek, and Deli Chen, 2018, Policy distortions, farm size, and the overuse of agricultural chemicals in China.

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M. Abdalla, A. Hastings, D. R. Chadwick, D. L. Jones, C. D. Evans, M. B. Jones, R. M. Rees, P. Smith (2018) Critical review of the impacts of grazing intensity on soil organic carbon storage and other soil quality indicators in extensively managed grasslands. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, Vol 253: 62-81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2017.10.023

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Baojing Gu, Xiaotang Ju, Yiyun Wu, Jan Willem Erisman, Albert Bleeker, Stefan Reis, Mark A. Sutton, Shu Kee Lam, Pete Smith, Oene Oenema, Rognvald I. Smith, Xuehe Lu, Xinyue Ye, Deli Chen (2018) Cleaning up nitrogen pollution may reduce future carbon sinks. Global Environmental Change, Vol 48: 56-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2017.10.007

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Li T, Zhang W, Yin J, Chadwick D, Norse D, Lu Y, Liu X, Chen X, Zhang F, Powlson D, Dou Z (2018),  Enhanced-efficiency fertilizers are not a panacea for resolving the nitrogen problem. Glob Change Biol. 24(2):e511-e521, doi: 10.1111/gcb.13918

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Hongyuan Wang, Dan Zhang, Yitao Zhang, Limei Zhai, Bin Yin, Feng Zhou, Yucong Geng, Junting Pan, Jiafa Luo, Baojing Gu, Hongbin Liu (2018), Ammonia emissions from paddy fields are underestimated in China. Environmental Pollution, 235:482-488. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2017.12.103

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S. Wei, Z.H. Bai, D. Chadwick, Y. Hou, W. Qin, Z.Q. Zhao, R.F. Jiang, L. Ma (2018) Greenhouse gas and ammonia emissions and mitigation options from livestock production in peri-urban agriculture: Beijing – A case study. Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol 178:515-525.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.12.257

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2017

Zhaohai Bai, Xiaoxin Li, Jie Lu, Xuan Wang, Gerard L. Velthof, David Chadwick, Jiafa Luo, Stewart Ledgard, Zhiguo Wu,  Shuqin Jin, Oene Oenema, Lin Ma and Chunsheng Hu (2017), Livestock Housing and Manure Storage Need to Be Improved in China. Environ. Sci. Technol.  51:8212−8214. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b02672

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Baojing Gu, Xiaotang Ju,  Scott X. Chang, Ying Ge, Jie Chang (2017) Nitrogen use efficiencies in Chinese agricultural systems and implications for food security and environmental protection. Regional Environmental Change, 17(4): 1217–1227. DOI: 10.1007/s10113-016-1101-5

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Baojing Gu, Xiaotang Ju, Yiyun Wu, Jan Willem Erisman, Albert Bleeker, Stefan Reis, Mark A. Sutton, Shu Kee Lam, Pete Smith, Oene Oenema, Rognvald I. Smith, Xuehe Lu, Xinyue Ye, Deli Chen (2017), Cleaning up nitrogen pollution may reduce future carbon sinks. Global Environmental Change, 48: 56-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2017.10.007

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Xiaotang Ju, Chong Zhang (2017), Nitrogen cycling and environmental impacts in upland agricultural soils in North China: A review. Journal of Intergrative Agriculture, 16(12): 2848-2862. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2095-3119(17)61743-X

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Xiaotang Ju, Baojing Gu (2017) Indexes of Nitrogen Management, Acta Pedologica Sinica, 54(2):281-296. DOI:10.11766/trxb201609150320

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Tao Huang, Xiaotang Ju, Hao Yang. 2017. Nitrate leaching in a winter wheat-summer maize rotation on a calcareous soil as affected by nitrogen and straw management. Scientific Reports, 7:42247, DOI: 0.1038/srep42247.

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Yuelai Lu, David McBey, Roger Sylvester-Bradley, Rachel Thorman (2017), The zero growth policy and fertilizer innovations in China. Fertilizer Focus, March/April 2017:  40-43

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Hongyuan Wang, Yitao Zhang, Anqiang Chen, Hongbin Liua, Limei Zhai, Baokun Lei, Tianzhi Ren (2017), An optimal regional nitrogen application threshold for wheat in the North China Plain considering yield and environmental effects. Field Crops Research, 207:52–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2017.03.002

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Yue Wang, Hongmin Dong, Zhiping Zhu, Pierre J. Gerber, Hongwei Xin, Pete Smith, Carolyn Opio, Henning Steinfeld, and Dave Chadwick (2017) Mitigating greenhouse gas and ammonia emissions from swine manure management: A system analysis, Environmental Science & Technology Article ASAP DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b06430

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Liuqing Yang, Xiaojun Zhang, Xiaotang Ju (2017), Linkage between N2O emissions and functional gene abundance in an intensively managed calcareous fluvo-aquic soil. Scientific Reports 7:43283, DOI: 10.1038/srep43283.

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Tao Zhang, Anqiang Chen, Jian Liu, Hongbin Liu, Baokun Lei, Limei Zhai, Dan Zhang, Hongyuan Wang (2017), Cropping systems affect paddy soil organic carbon and total nitrogen stocks (in rice-garlic and rice-fava systems) in temperate region of southern China. Science of The Total Environment,Vol 609: 640-1649. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.06.226

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Xiuming Zhang, Yiyun Wu, Xuejun Liu, Stefan Reis, Jiaxin Jin, Ulrike Dragosits, Martin Van Damme, Lieven Clarisse, Simon Whitburn, Pierre-François Coheur and Baojing Gu (2017),  Ammonia Emissions May Be Substantially Underestimated in China. Environmental Science & Technology, 51:12089-12096. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b02171

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Wei Zhou, Shan Lin, Lei Wu, Jingsong Zhao, Milan Wang, Bo Zhu, Yongliang Mo, Ronggui Hu, Dave Chadwick, Muhammad Shaaban (2017). Substantial N2O emission during the initial period of the wheat season due to the conversion of winter-flooded paddy to rice-wheat rotation. Atmospheric Environment 170:269-278. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2017.09.021

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2016

Zhaohai Bai, Lin Ma, Shuqin Jin, Wenqi Ma, Gerard L. Velthof, Oene Oenema, Ling Liu, David Chadwick and Fusuo Zhang (2016) Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium Flows through the Manure Management Chain in China. Environmental Science & Technology 50 (24), pp 13409–13418.  DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b03348

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Xiaotang Ju, Baojing Gu, Yiyun Wu, James N. Galloway (2016) Reducing China’s fertilizer use by increasing farm size. Global Environmental Change 41 (2016) 26–32,

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Yiyun Wu, Baojing Gu,  Jan Willem Erisman, Stefan Reise, Yuanyuan Fang, Xuehe Lu, Xiuming Zhang (2016) PM2.5 pollution is substantially affected by ammonia emissions in China. Environmental Pollution, 218, 86-94.

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