This paper reviews the environmental impact of current livestock practices and discusses the
advantages offered by Precision Livestock Farming (PLF), as a potential strategy to mitigate …

Ammonia emissions are a major problem associated with animal slurry management, and
solutions to overcome this problem are required worldwide by farmers and stakeholders. An …

The ecosystem approach to ecology treats organisms and the physical elements of their
environment as components of a single, integrated system. This comprehensive textbook …

Just as carbon fueled the Industrial Revolution, nitrogen has fueled an Agricultural
Revolution. The use of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers and the cultivation of nitrogen‐fixing …

Nutrient cycles link agricultural systems to their societies and surroundings; inputs of
nitrogen and phosphorus in particular are essential for high crop yields, but downstream and …

Nitrogen (N) is central to living systems, and its addition to agricultural crop** systems is
an essential facet of modern crop management and one of the major reasons that crop …

Managing organic waste streams is a major challenge for the agricultural industry.
Anaerobic digestion (AD) of organic wastes is a preferred option in the waste management …

Food production in China results in large losses of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) to the
environment. Our objective is to identify hotspots for N and P losses to the environment from …

Anaerobic digestion produces a biologically stable and high-value fertilizer product, the
digestate, which can be used as an alternative to mineral fertilizers on crops. However …

Scientific assessments of agricultural air quality, including estimates of emissions and
potential sequestration of greenhouse gases, are an important emerging area of …