GC069
Quantifying Nutrient Budgets for Sustainable Nutrient Management
Quantifying Nutrient Budgets for Sustainable Nutrient Management
Session ID#: 81780
Session Description:
Nutrients, such as nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P), are critical for net primary productivity in agricultural and non-agricultural ecosystems, and are consequently important for food security and climate change mitigation. However, rising nutrient inputs to agricultural production and to the biosphere have severe environmental consequences. Quantifying nutrient budgets, including inputs and outputs of a defined system or a spatial boundary, is an essential step towards sustainable nutrient management, and also provides critical inputs to agronomic, biogeochemical, and climate models. Therefore, this session calls for research efforts on quantifying, analyzing, and/or projecting nutrient budgets on various system levels (e.g., crop and livestock production systems, integrated agro-food systems, natural systems subject to atmospheric deposition) and spatial scales (e.g., farms, watersheds, nations). This session aims to provide an opportunity to assess advances and challenges in existing nutrient budgeting methods and databases, and to discuss innovations for better quantification of nutrient budgets.
Co-Organized:
- B - Biogeosciences
Co-Sponsor(s):
- ESA: Ecological Society of America -
- SSSA: Soil Science Society of America -
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: Eric A Davidson, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Appalachian Laboratory, Frostburg, MD, United States
Conveners: Xin Zhang, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Appalachian Laboratory, Frostburg, MD, United States, Jill Baron, US Geological Survey, John Wesley Powell Center for Analysis and Synthesis, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Katherine Lynn Tully, University of Maryland College Park, Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, College Park, MD, United States
Primary Liaison: Eric A Davidson, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Appalachian Laboratory, Frostburg, MD, United States
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