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Impact of two centuries of intensive agriculture on soil carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycling in the UK

Shibu Muhammed, K. Coleman, Lianhai Wu, Victoria A. Bell, Jessica Davies, John Quinton, Edward Carnell, Sam Tomlinson, Anthony J. Dore, U. Dragosits, Pamela S. Naden, M. J. Glendining, Edward Tipping, A. P. Whitmore

The Science of The Total Environment · 2018

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This paper describes an agricultural model (Roth-CNP) that estimates carbon (C), nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) pools, pool changes, their balance and the nutrient fluxes exported from arable and grassland systems in the UK during 1800-2010. The Roth-CNP model was developed as part of an Integrated Model (IM) to simulate C, N and P cycling for the whole of UK, by loosely coupling terrestrial, hydrological and hydro-chemical models. The model was calibrated and tested using long term experiment (LTE) data from Broadbalk (1843) and Park Grass (1856) at Rothamsted. We estimated C, N and P balance and their fluxes exported from arable and grassland systems on a 5km×5km grid across the whole of UK by using the area of arable of crops and livestock numbers in each grid and their management. The

Source type
Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.03.378
Catalogue ID
SNmohku2m2-n8k48d
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