GC088
Quantifying Nitrogen and Phosphorus Budgets for Sustainable Nutrient Management
Quantifying Nitrogen and Phosphorus Budgets for Sustainable Nutrient Management
Session ID#: 249525
Session Description:
Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P), are vital to primary productivity and to food and climate security, yet increasing nutrient inputs have triggered serious environmental and health consequences. Nutrient accounting methods, which quantify inputs and outputs of nutrient budgets (and their uncertainties), are key to sustainable nutrient management and support agronomic, biogeochemical, and climate modeling. This session invites research on measuring, analyzing, and projecting nutrient budgets across system types (e.g., crop and livestock production, atmospheric deposition, waste flows) and spatial scales (e.g., farm, city, watershed, national). We seek contributions that assess methodological advances, data innovations, and persistent challenges in nutrient accounting. Approaches to communicate nutrient budget information and that identify promising approaches to reducing imbalances are welcome. By fostering dialogue and discussion about research across scales, this session aims to improve the tools and approaches needed for more precise and actionable nutrient assessments in support of environmental sustainability and policy development.
Co-Sponsor(s):
- B - Biogeosciences
- GH - GeoHealth
- IN - Informatics
- SY - Science and Society
Index Terms:
0402 Agricultural systems [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0470 Nutrients and nutrient cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1615 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
Primary Convener: Dennis P Swaney, Cornell University, Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Ithaca, United States
Conveners: Xin Zhang, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Appalachian Laboratory, Frostburg, United States, Peter M Groffman, Cary Inst Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, United States; CUNY Brooklyn College, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Brooklyn, NY, United States and Jana Compton, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Corvallis, United States
Student/Early Career Convener: Meredith Brehob, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, Based at US EPA, Washington DC, United States
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