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Preface. -List of contributors. -Acronyms and abbreviations -- Just Enough Nitrogen: Summary and Synthesis of Outcomes -- Part I Food and Agriculture. - Long Term Trends in Agronomical and Environmental Performances of World Cropping Systems: The Relationship between Yield and Nitrogen Input to Cropland at the Country and Regional Scales -- A Critique of Combining Tillage Practices and Nitrogen for Enhanced Maize Production on a Humic Nitisol in Kenya -- Influence of Varying Rates of Fertilizers on the Performance of Cacao (Theobroma cacao) Seedlings in the Nursery -- Assessing Synergies and Trade-offs from Nitrogen Use in Africa -- Potential of Extensification of European and Dutch Agriculture for a More Sustainable Food System Focusing on Nitrogen and Livestock -- History of Rhizobia Inoculants Use for Improving Performance of Grain Legumes Based on Experience from Nigeria -- Producer Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices for Dry Beans and Biological Nitrogen Fixation in Kamuli District, Uganda -- Performance of Mwitemania bean under the influence of nitrogen-fixing Rhizobium inoculant, water hyacinth composts and DAP fertilizer in a field infested with Aphis fabae and Colletotrichum lindemuthianu -- Biological Nitrogen Fixation of Pigeonpea and Groundnut: Quantifying Response across 18 Farm Sites in Northern Malawi -- Biological Determinants of Crop Nitrogen Use Efficiency and Biotechnological Avenues for Improvement -- Nitrogen Loss when using Organic and Mineral Fertilizers on Soddy Podzolic Sandy-loam Soil in Central Russia -- Sorghum Response to Nitrogen in Organic Carbon-Categorized Ferralsol and Andosol in Uganda -- Evaluating Resource Use Efficiency and Stock Balances of Nitrogen and Phosphorus Fertilizer Inputs: The Effect of Soil Supply Capacity in Tigray (Ethiopia) -- Rice Response to Nitrogen and Supplemental Irrigation under Low Phosphorus and Potassium in Upland Production Systems in East Africa -- Contribution of Gliricidia sepium Pruning and Fallow to Sweet Corn (Zea mays L. var. rugosa) Yield, Nitrogen Uptake, Release Pattern and Use Efficiency in a Humid Tropical Environment of Malaysia -- Part II Nitrogen Impacts on Health, Ecosystems and Climate -- Further Evidence of the Haber-Bosch – Harmful Algal Bloom (HB-HAB) Link and the Risk of Suggesting HAB Control through Phosphorus Reductions only -- Human Health Effects of Exposure to Nitrate, Nitrite, and Nitrogen Dioxide -- Nitrogen Deposition to China’s Coastal Seas: Status and Ecological Impacts -- Anthropogenic Nitrogen Loads to Freshwater: A High-Resolution Global Study -- Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition in Spain: Emission and Deposition Trends, Critical Load Exceedances and Effects on Terrestrial Ecosystems -- Nitrogen Aspects of the Free-Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) Study for Paddy Rice Ecosystems -- Nitrous Oxide (N2O) Emissions from Forests, Grasslands and Agricultural Soils in Northern Spain -- Effect of Climate Change and Crop-year on the Yield and Nitrogen Fertilizer Efficiency in Winter Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Production -- Part III Management Tools and Assessment -- DNMARK: Danish Nitrogen Mitigation Assessment: Research and Know-how for a Sustainable, Low-Nitrogen Food Production -- Farm Level Assessment of Nitrogen Use Efficiency as part of Environmental Management -- Agroforestry and Opportunities for Improved Nitrogen Management -- Global Nitrogen and Phosphorus Pollution -- A First Approach to the Calculation of Nitrogen Footprint in Lisbon, Portugal -- The INI European Regional Nitrogen Centre: Concepts and Vision -- The INI African Regional Nitrogen Centre: Challenges and Opportunities in Africa -- The INI South Asian Regional Nitrogen Centre: Capacity Building for Regional Nitrogen Assessment and Management -- The INI East Asia Regional Nitrogen Centre: Balancing Food Production and Environment — Nitrogen-related Research and Management in East Asia -- The INI North American Regional Nitrogen Center: 2011–2015 Nitrogen Activities in North America -- The Latin America Regional Nitrogen Centre: Concepts and Recent Activities -- Part IV Conclusions and Outlook -- Global Challenges for Nitrogen Science-Policy Interactions: Towards the International Management System (INMS) and Improved Coordination between Multi-Lateral Environmental Agreements -- Pre-informed Consumers on a Pre-adjusted Menu had Smaller Nitrogen Footprints during the N2013 Conference, Kampala, than those on a Conventional Menu -- The Kampala Statement-for-Action on Reactive Nitrogen in Africa and Globally -- Appendix -- Index.
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Just enough nitrogen : perspectives on how to get there for regions with too much and too little nitrogen / / Mark A. Sutton [and eight others], editors
