Outlook of China's agriculture transforming from smallholder operation to sustainable production

Q Zhang, Y Chu, Y Xue, H Ying, X Chen, Y Zhao… - Global Food …, 2020 - Elsevier
Agriculture in China has been smallholder based. Tempted by a large food demand,
smallholders have been using excessive fertilizer to obtain high yields. This type of …

Environmental impacts of nitrogen emissions in China and the role of policies in emission reduction

XJ Liu, W Xu, EZ Du, AH Tang… - … of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Atmospheric reactive nitrogen (Nr) has been a cause of serious environmental pollution in
China. Historically, China used too little Nr in its agriculture to feed its population. However …

Optimal nitrogen rate strategy for sustainable rice production in China

S Cai, X Zhao, CM Pittelkow, M Fan, X Zhang, X Yan - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Avoiding excessive agricultural nitrogen (N) use without compromising yields has long been
a priority for both research and government policy in China,. Although numerous rice-related …

Effects of microplastics and nitrogen deposition on soil multifunctionality, particularly C and N cycling

S Zhang, L Pei, Y Zhao, J Shan, X Zheng, G Xu… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
Both nitrogen deposition (ND) and microplastics (MPs) pose global change challenges. The
effects of MPs co-existing with ND on ecosystem functions are still largely unknown. Herein …

Stabilization of atmospheric nitrogen deposition in China over the past decade

G Yu, Y Jia, N He, J Zhu, Z Chen, Q Wang, S Piao… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Increasing atmospheric nitrogen deposition can influence food production, environmental
quality and climate change from the regional to global scales. As the largest developing …

[HTML][HTML] Changes of nitrogen deposition in China from 1980 to 2018

Z Wen, W Xu, Q Li, M Han, A Tang, Y Zhang… - Environment …, 2020 - Elsevier
China has experienced a dramatic change in atmospheric reactive nitrogen (Nr) emissions
over the past four decades. However, it remains unclear how nitrogen (N) deposition has …

Ammonia emission control in China would mitigate haze pollution and nitrogen deposition, but worsen acid rain

M Liu, X Huang, Y Song, J Tang… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
China has been experiencing fine particle (ie, aerodynamic diameters≤ 2.5 µm; PM2. 5)
pollution and acid rain in recent decades, which exert adverse impacts on human health and …

Ab initio protein structure assembly using continuous structure fragments and optimized knowledge‐based force field

D Xu, Y Zhang - Proteins: Structure, Function, and …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Ab initio protein folding is one of the major unsolved problems in computational biology
owing to the difficulties in force field design and conformational search. We developed a …

Agricultural ammonia emissions in China: reconciling bottom-up and top-down estimates

L Zhang, Y Chen, Y Zhao, DK Henze… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - acp.copernicus.org
Current estimates of agricultural ammonia (NH 3) emissions in China differ by more than a
factor of 2, hindering our understanding of their environmental consequences. Here we …

Spatio-temporal patterns of air pollution in China from 2015 to 2018 and implications for health risks

M Kuerban, Y Waili, F Fan, Y Liu, W Qin, AJ Dore… - Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
China has been seriously affected by particulate matter (PM) and gaseous pollutants in the
atmosphere. In this study, we systematically analyse the spatio-temporal patterns of PM 2.5 …