Excess nitrogen from croplands
"Excess nitrogen" is the difference between nutrient inputs (from fertilizers, manure, and fixation from legumes) and the amount harvested in crop material. Thisrepresents nitrogen that are lost to the environment and can create ecological imbalances on ecosystems and in water bodies.
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- Cereal yield vs. fertilizer use
- Eutrophying emissions per 100 grams of protein
- Eutrophying emissions per 1000 kilocalories
- Eutrophying emissions per kilogram of food product
- Excess phosphorous from croplands
- Excess phosphorous per hectare of cropland
- Fertilizer application rates over the long-run
- Fertilizer consumption
- Fertilizer inputs per unit of agricultural land
- Fertilizer production by nutrient type
- Fertilizer use by nutrient
- Fertilizer use per capita
- Fertilizer use per hectare of arable landLine chart
- Fertilizer use per hectare of croplandStacked bar chart
- Fertilizer use vs. GDP per capita
- Nitrogen fertilizer use per hectare of cropland
- Nitrogen inputs per hectare of cropland
- Phosphate fertilizer use per hectare of cropland
- Potash fertilizer use per hectare of cropland
- Total nitrogen inputs to crops
- Which countries overapplied nitrogen without gains in crop yields?
- World population supported by synthetic nitrogen fertilizers
- World population with and without synthetic nitrogen fertilizers