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Global manure nitrogen production and application in cropland during 1860–2014
Global manure nitrogen production and application in cropland during 1860–2014: a 5 arcmin gridded global dataset for Earth system modeling Bowen Zhang, Hanqin Tian, Chaoqun Lu, Shree R. S. Dangal, Jia Yang, and Shufen Pan Abstract. Given the important role of nitrogen input from livestock systems in terrestrial nutrient cycles and the atmospheric chemical composition,…Continue Reading Global manure nitrogen production and application in cropland during 1860–2014
Methane emissions from global wetlands
Methane emissions from global wetlands: An assessment of the uncertainty associated with various wetland extent data sets Bowen Zhang, Hanqin Tian, Chaoqun Lu, Guangsheng Chen, Shufen Pan, Christopher Anderson, Benjamin Poulter Abstract A wide range of estimates on global wetland methane (CH4) fluxes has been reported during the recent two decades. This gives rise to…Continue Reading Methane emissions from global wetlands
Spatial distributions of plantation forests for the CONUS (Chen et al., 2017)
A new paper titled “Spatial and temporal patterns of plantation forests in the United States since the 1930s: an annual and gridded data set for regional Earth system modeling” was published in Earth System Science Data by Chen et al., 2017. https://www.earth-syst-sci-data.net/9/545/2017/ Through synthesizing multiple inventory data sources, this study developed methods to spatialize the…Continue Reading Spatial distributions of plantation forests for the CONUS (Chen et al., 2017)