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Improving regional nitrogen use effi...

Ahrens, Toby D.

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Improving regional nitrogen use efficiency: Opportunities and constraints.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Improving regional nitrogen use efficiency: Opportunities and constraints./
作者:	Ahrens, Toby D.
面頁冊數:	205 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-01, Section: B, page: 0163.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International70-01B.
標題:	Agriculture, Agronomy. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3343558
ISBN:	9780549985853

Improving regional nitrogen use efficiency: Opportunities and constraints.
Ahrens, Toby D.

Improving regional nitrogen use efficiency: Opportunities and constraints. - 205 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-01, Section: B, page: 0163.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2009.

One of the most important challenges for global food security in the near future is increasing crop production to meet food and energy demands in a sustainable manner. The agronomic challenge is well documented, and will necessitate overcoming plateauing yield potentials in major cereals, continued development of new varieties, and decreasing the difference between yield potentials and yields achieved on farms, among other hurdles. Less attention has been given to improving nutrient management, but it is clear that global fertilizer use has already caused profound alterations in the nitrogen (N) cycle with unsustainable consequences for the environment. Meeting future food production demand in a sustainable manner will require improving the efficiency of fertilizer use on farms, and the purpose of this thesis was to identify the major opportunities and constraints to such a feat.

ISBN: 9780549985853Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018679
Agriculture, Agronomy.

Improving regional nitrogen use efficiency: Opportunities and constraints.
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520 $a The need for increased nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) is established in this thesis by synthesizing more than a decade of research in the Yaqui Valley in Sonora, Mexico for a regional perspective on the major N transfers and transformations in the Valley. Large reductions in gaseous emissions and leached N were shown to be possible with changes in management. Simulation modeling is used to determine the potential for improved NUE in the Valley, the variables most responsible for the increase, and the biogeochemical implications of improved N management. The greatest gains in NUE were facilitated by technologies that allowed for site-specific N management by allowing farmers to manage for differences in residual N and crop demand in individual fields. Simulations suggested that agronomic efficiency could be doubled in the Yaqui Valley with no loss in profit or yield. A synthesis of field trials in wheat systems throughout the world is used to place the Yaqui Valley in a global perspective. All field trials demonstrated that large gains in agronomic efficiency were possible with no loss in profit or yield.
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