Half-degree gridded manure and fertilizer nitrogen inputs in global grassland systems during 1860-2016
type: Dataset
creator: Rongting Xu
  type: Person
  family name: Xu
  given name: Rongting
creator: Hanqin Tian
creator: Shufen Pan
creator: R S Shree Dangal
  type: Person
  family name: Dangal
  given name: R S Shree
creator: Jian Chen
creator: Jinfeng Chang
creator: Yonglong Lu
  type: Person
  family name: Lu
  given name: Yonglong
creator: Ute Maria Skiba
  type: Person
  family name: Skiba
  given name: Ute Maria
creator: Francesco N Tubiello
creator: Bowen Zhang
publisher: PANGAEA
  type: Organization
  disambiguating description: Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science
included in data catalog: PANGAEA
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  disambiguating description: Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science
date published: 2018-08-10
description: Production and application to soils of manure excreta from livestock production significantly perturb the global nutrient balance and result in significant greenhouse gas emissions that warm the earth's climate. Despite much attention paid to synthetic nitrogen (N) fertilizer and manure N applications to croplands, spatially-explicit, continuous time-series datasets of manure and fertilizer N inputs on pastures and rangelands are lacking. We developed three global gridded datasets at a resolution of 0.5 degree by 0.5 degree for the period 1860-2016 (i.e., annual manure N deposition (by grazing animals) rate, synthetic N fertilizer and N manure application rates), by combining annual and 5-arc minute spatial data on pastures and rangelands with country-level statistics on livestock manure, mineral and chemical fertilizers, and land use information for cropland and permanent meadows and pastures from the Food and Agricultural Organization database (FAOSTAT). […]
abstract: Production and application to soils of manure excreta from livestock production significantly perturb the global nutrient balance and result in significant greenhouse gas emissions that warm the earth's climate. Despite much attention paid to synthetic nitrogen (N) fertilizer and manure N applications to croplands, spatially-explicit, continuous time-series datasets of manure and fertilizer N inputs on pastures and rangelands are lacking. We developed three global gridded datasets at a resolution of 0.5 degree by 0.5 degree for the period 1860-2016 (i.e., annual manure N deposition (by grazing animals) rate, synthetic N fertilizer and N manure application rates), by combining annual and 5-arc minute spatial data on pastures and rangelands with country-level statistics on livestock manure, mineral and chemical fertilizers, and land use information for cropland and permanent meadows and pastures from the Food and Agricultural Organization database (FAOSTAT). Based on the new data products, we estimated that total N inputs, sum of manure N deposition, manure and fertilizer N application to pastures and rangelands increased globally from 15 to 101 Tg N yr-1 during 1860-2016. In particular during the period 2000-2016, livestock manure N deposition accounted for 83% of the total N inputs, whereas manure and fertilizer N application accounted 9% and 8%, respectively. At the regional scale, hotspots of manure N deposition remained largely similar during the period 1860-2016 (i.e., southern Asia, Africa, and South America), however hotspots of manure and fertilizer N application shifted from Europe to southern Asia in the early 21st century. The new three global datasets contribute to fill previous data gaps of global and regional N inputs in pastures and rangelands, improving the ability of ecosystem and biogeochemistry models to investigate the global impacts of N enrichment due to agriculture, in terms of associated greenhouse gas emissions and environmental sustainabilit…
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comment: Data are in ascii-format at a spatial resolution of 0.5 degree by 0.5 degree (latitude by longitude). Header for ascii-format files - ncols: 720 - nrows: 354 - xllcorner: -180 - yllcorner: -88.5 - cellsize: 0.5 - NODATA_value: -9999. The unit of these three datasets is kg N/km**2/yr.
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Hanqin Tian
type: Person
family name: Tian
given name: Hanqin

Shufen Pan
type: Person
family name: Pan
given name: Shufen

Jian Chen
type: Person
family name: Chen
given name: Jian

Jinfeng Chang
type: Person
family name: Chang
given name: Jinfeng

Francesco N Tubiello
type: Person
family name: Tubiello
given name: Francesco N

Bowen Zhang
type: Person
family name: Zhang
given name: Bowen

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Increased nitrogen enrichment and shifted patterns in the world's grassland: 1860-2014
type: CreativeWork
type: PublicationIssue
creator: Rongting Xu
  type: Person
  family name: Xu
  given name: Rongting
creator: Hanqin Tian
creator: Shufen Pan
creator: R S Shree Dangal
  type: Person
  family name: Dangal
  given name: R S Shree
creator: Jian Chen
creator: Jinfeng Chang
creator: Yonglong Lu
  type: Person
  family name: Lu
  given name: Yonglong
creator: Ute Maria Skiba
  type: Person
  family name: Skiba
  given name: Ute Maria
creator: Bowen Zhang
date published: 2019
issue number: 11(1)
pagination: 175-187
is part of: Earth System Science Data
is based on: Half-degree gridded manure and fertilizer nitrogen inputs in global grassland systems during 1860-2016