Addressing agricultural nitrogen losses in a changing climate
Abstract
Losses of nitrogen from agriculture are a major threat to environmental and human health at local, regional and global scales. Emerging evidence shows that climate change and intensive agricultural management will interact to increase the harmful effects and undermine current mitigation efforts. Identifying effective mitigation strategies and supporting policies requires an integrated understanding of the processes underlying potential agricultural nitrogen responses to climate change. In this Review, we describe these processes, propose a set of multi-scale principles to guide research and policy for decreasing nitrogen losses in the future, and describe the economic factors that could constrain or enable their implementation.
Department
Soil Biogeochemistry and Microbial Ecology
Publication Date
8-14-2018
Journal Title
Nature Sustainability
Publisher
Springer Nature
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
Document Type
Article
Recommended Citation
Bowles, T.M., Atallah, S.S., Campbell, E.E. et al. Addressing agricultural nitrogen losses in a changing climate. Nat Sustain 1, 399–408 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-018-0106-0