Strategies for greenhouse gas emissions mitigation in Mediterranean agriculture: A review

A Sanz-Cobena, L Lassaletta, E Aguilera… - Agriculture, ecosystems …, 2017 - Elsevier
An integrated assessment of the potential of different management practices for mitigating
specific components of the total GHG budget (N 2 O and CH 4 emissions and C …

Biochar and urease inhibitor mitigate NH3 and N2O emissions and improve wheat yield in a urea fertilized alkaline soil

K Dawar, S Fahad, MMR Jahangir, I Munir, SS Alam… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
In this study, we explored the role of biochar (BC) and/or urease inhibitor (UI) in mitigating
ammonia (NH3) and nitrous oxide (N2O) discharge from urea fertilized wheat cultivated …

Global evaluation of inhibitor impacts on ammonia and nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural soils: A meta‐analysis

D Fan, W He, WN Smith, CF Drury, R Jiang… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Inhibitors are widely considered an efficient tool for reducing nitrogen (N) loss and improving
N use efficiency, but their effectiveness is highly variable across agroecosystems. In this …

Meta-analysis of the effect of urease and nitrification inhibitors on crop productivity and nitrogen use efficiency

D Abalos, S Jeffery, A Sanz-Cobena, G Guardia… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2014 - Elsevier
Nitrification and urease inhibitors are proposed as means to reduce nitrogen losses, thereby
increasing crop nitrogen use efficiency (NUE). However, their effect on crop yield is variable …

Direct nitrous oxide emissions in Mediterranean climate cropping systems: Emission factors based on a meta-analysis of available measurement data

ML Cayuela, E Aguilera, A Sanz-Cobena… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2017 - Elsevier
Many recent reviews and meta-analyses of N 2 O emissions do not include data from
Mediterranean studies. In this paper we present a meta-analysis of the N 2 O emissions from …

Urease inhibitor NBPT on ammonia volatilization and crop productivity: A meta‐analysis

AGB Silva, CH Sequeira, RA Sermarini… - Agronomy …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Core Ideas The volatilization losses averaged 31.0% of applied N for urea and 14.8% for
NBPT‐treated urea. NBPT‐treated urea showed a potential yield increase of 5.3% for major …

Urea-based nitrogen fertilization in agriculture: a key source of N2O emissions and recent development in mitigating strategies

Y Zhang, W Wang, H Yao - Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Agricultural land occupies nearly half of the earth's surface, and farming activities account for
nearly 60% of total anthropogenic N2O emissions. The manufactured nitrogen (N) fertilizers …

Reducing nitrous oxide emissions by changing N fertiliser use from calcium ammonium nitrate (CAN) to urea based formulations

MA Harty, PJ Forrestal, CJ Watson… - Science of the Total …, 2016 - Elsevier
The accelerating use of synthetic nitrogen (N) fertilisers, to meet the world's growing food
demand, is the primary driver for increased atmospheric concentrations of nitrous oxide (N 2 …

Application of enhanced-efficiency nitrogen fertilizers reduces mineral nitrogen usage and emissions of both N2O and NH3 while sustaining yields in a wheat-rice …

Y Cheng, AS Elrys, J Wang, C Xu, K Ni, J Zhang… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2022 - Elsevier
The application of nitrification and urease inhibitors with urea can increase the residence
time of ammonium (NH 4+) in soils and thus reduce nitrogen (N) losses to the environment …

Urea ammonium nitrate solution combined with urease and nitrification inhibitors jointly mitigate NH3 and N2O emissions and improves nitrogen efficiency of summer …

B Ren, Z Huang, P Liu, B Zhao, J Zhang - Field Crops Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Context The application of nitrogenous fertilizer synergist to coordinate nitrogen
transformation process in soil may be an efficient strategy to increase nitrogen use efficiency …