Do European agroforestry systems enhance biodiversity and ecosystem services? A meta-analysis

M Torralba, N Fagerholm, PJ Burgess, G Moreno… - Agriculture, ecosystems …, 2016 - Elsevier
Agroforestry has been proposed as a sustainable agricultural system over conventional
agriculture and forestry, conserving biodiversity and enhancing ecosystem service provision …

Nitrogen losses from the soil/plant system: a review

KC Cameron, HJ Di, JL Moir - Annals of applied biology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Losses of nitrogen from the soil/plant system not only reduce soil fertility and plant yield but
can also create adverse impacts on the environment. Ammonia emissions into the …

[PDF][PDF] Agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU)

P Smith, M Bustamante, H Ahammad, H Clark… - Climate change 2014 …, 2014 - orbit.dtu.dk
Executive Summary Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use (AFOLU) is unique among
the sectors considered in this volume, since the mitigation potential is derived from both an …

Global soil nitrous oxide emissions since the preindustrial era estimated by an ensemble of terrestrial biosphere models: Magnitude, attribution, and uncertainty

H Tian, J Yang, R Xu, C Lu, JG Canadell… - Global change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Our understanding and quantification of global soil nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions and the
underlying processes remain largely uncertain. Here, we assessed the effects of multiple …

Role of organic amendment application on greenhouse gas emission from soil

R Thangarajan, NS Bolan, G Tian, R Naidu… - Science of the Total …, 2013 - Elsevier
Globally, substantial quantities of organic amendments (OAs) such as plant residues (3.8×
10 9 Mg/yr), biosolids (10× 10 7 Mg/yr), and animal manures (7× 10 9 Mg/yr) are produced …

Denitrification and N2O: N2 production in temperate grasslands: Processes, measurements, modelling and mitigating negative impacts

S Saggar, N Jha, J Deslippe, NS Bolan, J Luo… - Science of the Total …, 2013 - Elsevier
In this review we explore the biotic transformations of nitrogenous compounds that occur
during denitrification, and the factors that influence denitrifier populations and enzyme …

Exploitation of dietary tannins to improve rumen metabolism and ruminant nutrition

AK Patra, J Saxena - Journal of the Science of Food and …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Tannins (hydrolysable and condensed tannin) are polyphenolic polymers of relatively high
molecular weight with the capacity to form complexes mainly with proteins due to the …

Critical evaluation of essential oils as rumen modifiers in ruminant nutrition: A review

G Cobellis, M Trabalza-Marinucci, Z Yu - Science of the Total Environment, 2016 - Elsevier
Ruminant livestock systems contribute significantly to emission of methane, a potent
greenhouse gas as they waste a portion of the ingested energy (2–15%) as methane and a …

Options for the abatement of methane and nitrous oxide from ruminant production: A review

RJ Eckard, C Grainger, CAM De Klein - Livestock science, 2010 - Elsevier
Agriculture produces∼ 10%–12% of total global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions,
contributing∼ 50% and∼ 60% of all anthropogenic methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide …

SPECIAL TOPICS—Mitigation of methane and nitrous oxide emissions from animal operations: II. A review of manure management mitigation options

F Montes, R Meinen, C Dell, A Rotz… - Journal of animal …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
This review analyzes published data on manure management practices used to mitigate
methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from animal operations. Reducing …