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de Vries W, Schulte-Uebbing L, Kros H, et al. Spatially explicit boundaries for agricultural nitrogen inputs in the European Union to meet air and water quality targets. Sci Total Environ. 2021;786:147283doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147283.
de Vries, W., Schulte-Uebbing, L., Kros, H., Voogd, J. C., & Louwagie, G. (2021). Spatially explicit boundaries for agricultural nitrogen inputs in the European Union to meet air and water quality targets. The Science of the total environment, 786147283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147283
de Vries, Wim, et al. "Spatially explicit boundaries for agricultural nitrogen inputs in the European Union to meet air and water quality targets." The Science of the total environment vol. 786 (2021): 147283. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147283
de Vries W, Schulte-Uebbing L, Kros H, Voogd JC, Louwagie G. Spatially explicit boundaries for agricultural nitrogen inputs in the European Union to meet air and water quality targets. Sci Total Environ. 2021 Sep 10;786:147283. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147283. Epub 2021 Apr 23. PMID: 33958210.
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Sci Total Environ. 2021 Sep 10;786:147283. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147283. Epub 2021 Apr 23.

Spatially explicit boundaries for agricultural nitrogen inputs in the European Union to meet air and water quality targets.

The Science of the total environment

Wim de Vries, Lena Schulte-Uebbing, Hans Kros, Jan Cees Voogd, Geertrui Louwagie

Affiliations

  1. Wageningen University and Research, Environmental Research, PO Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, the Netherlands; Wageningen University and Research, Environmental Systems Analysis Group, PO Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, the Netherlands. Electronic address: [email protected].
  2. Wageningen University and Research, Environmental Systems Analysis Group, PO Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, the Netherlands.
  3. Wageningen University and Research, Environmental Research, PO Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, the Netherlands.
  4. (formerly) European Environment Agency, Kongens Nytorv 6, 1050 Copenhagen, Denmark.

PMID: 33958210 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147283

Abstract

Agricultural production in the EU has increased strongly since the 1940s, partly driven by increased nitrogen (N) fertiliser and manure inputs. Increased N inputs and associated losses, however, adversely affect air and water quality, with widespread impacts on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and human health. Managing these impacts requires knowledge on 'safe boundaries' for N inputs, i.e., N flows that do not exceed environmental thresholds. We used a spatially explicit N balance model for the EU to derive boundaries for N losses and associated N inputs for three environmental thresholds: (i) N deposition onto natural areas to protect terrestrial biodiversity (critical N loads), (ii) N concentration in runoff to surface water (2.5 mg N l

Copyright © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Keywords: Ammonia emission; Biodiversity; Critical limits; Eutrophication; Nitrate leaching; Nitrogen runoff

Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this pa

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