Digital transformation for a sustainable agriculture in the United States: Opportunities and challenges

M Khanna, SS Atallah, S Kar, B Sharma… - Agricultural …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Agriculture faces key challenges of increasing productivity while reducing adverse impacts
on the environment. Conventional practices that rely on tillage, inefficient and over …

Forest expansion dominates China's land carbon sink since 1980

Z Yu, P Ciais, S Piao, RA Houghton, C Lu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Carbon budget accounting relies heavily on Food and Agriculture Organization land-use
data reported by governments. Here we develop a new land-use and cover-change …

Effects of land use and cover change (LUCC) on terrestrial carbon stocks in China between 2000 and 2018

X Chang, Y Xing, J Wang, H Yang, W Gong - Resources, Conservation and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The land-use and cover change (LUCC) is a major factor in the terrestrial carbon cycle.
However, the changes of vegetation biomass and soil carbon sequestration caused by land …

Historical nitrogen fertilizer use in agricultural ecosystems of the contiguous United States during 1850–2015: application rate, timing, and fertilizer types

P Cao, C Lu, Z Yu - Earth System Science Data, 2018 - essd.copernicus.org
A tremendous amount of anthropogenic nitrogen (N) fertilizer has been applied to
agricultural lands to promote crop production in the US since the 1850s. However …

[HTML][HTML] Scenario simulation of land use change and carbon storage response in Henan Province, China: 1990–2050

L Fan, T Cai, Q Wen, J Han, S Wang, J Wang, C Yin - Ecological Indicators, 2023 - Elsevier
The carbon storage service of terrestrial ecosystems has an veritable impact on the global
carbon cycle and, in turn, on global climate change. Hence, both assessing and predicting …

Assessing the effects of ecological engineering on spatiotemporal dynamics of carbon storage from 2000 to 2016 in the Loess Plateau area using the InVEST model …

K Li, J Cao, JF Adamowski, A Biswas, J Zhou… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Implementation of the Grain for Green program (GGP) resulted in great changes in land use
and cover in northwest China, and presumably in the region's carbon. However, accurate …

Maximizing carbon sequestration potential in Chinese forests through optimal management

Z Yu, S Liu, H Li, J Liang, W Liu, S Piao, H Tian… - nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Forest carbon sequestration capacity in China remains uncertain due to underrepresented
tree demographic dynamics and overlooked of harvest impacts. In this study, we employ a …

Contribution of agricultural land conversion to global GHG emissions: A meta-analysis

S Huang, S Ghazali, H Azadi, SM Moghaddam… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Greenhouse gases (GHG) have extensive environmental effects by trapping heat and
causing climate change and air pollution. Land plays a key role in the global cycles of GHG …

Century‐long changes and drivers of soil nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions across the contiguous United States

C Lu, Z Yu, J Zhang, P Cao, H Tian… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The atmospheric concentration of nitrous oxide (N2O) has increased by 23% since the pre‐
industrial era, which substantially destructed the stratospheric ozone layer and changed the …

Mapping forest type and age in China's plantations

Z Yu, H Zhao, S Liu, G Zhou, J Fang, G Yu… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Forest age serves as an essential factor in determining the accuracy of historical and future
carbon (C) uptake quantifications, which is especially critical for China since the forest C …