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SUBMITTER: Gu B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4507225 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gu Baojing B Ju Xiaotang X Chang Jie J Ge Ying Y Vitousek Peter M PM
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20150629 28
Reactive nitrogen (Nr) plays a central role in food production, and at the same time it can be an important pollutant with substantial effects on air and water quality, biological diversity, and human health. China now creates far more Nr than any other country. We developed a budget for Nr in China in 1980 and 2010, in which we evaluated the natural and anthropogenic creation of Nr, losses of Nr, and transfers among 14 subsystems within China. Our analyses demonstrated that a tripling of anthro ...[more]