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SUBMITTER: Withers PJA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7067724 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Withers Paul J A PJA Forber Kirsty G KG Lyon Christopher C Rothwell Shane S Doody Donnacha G DG Jarvie Helen P HP Martin-Ortega Julia J Jacobs Brent B Cordell Dana D Patton Myles M Camargo-Valero Miller A MA Cassidy Rachel R
Ambio 20190921 5
The chaotic distribution and dispersal of phosphorus (P) used in food systems (defined here as disorderly disruptions to the P cycle) is harming our environment beyond acceptable limits. An analysis of P stores and flows across Europe in 2005 showed that high fertiliser P inputs relative to productive outputs was driving low system P efficiency (38 % overall). Regional P imbalance (P surplus) and system P losses were highly correlated to total system P inputs and animal densities, causing unnece ...[more]