Excessive fertilizer application accelerates the greenhouse gas emissions intensity of major croplands in China

Jingting Zhang1, Hao Shi2, Hanqin Tian2, Xiaoke Wang3, Jingfang Zhang4, Shufen Pan5 and Jia Yang, (1)State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Auburn University, International Center for Climate and Global Change Research and School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn, AL, United States, (3)Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (4)Auburn University, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Auburn, AL, United States, (5)Auburn University at Montgomery, Auburn, AL, United States