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"Excess nitrogen" is the difference between nutrient inputs (from fertilizers, manure, and fixation from legumes) and the amount harvested in crop material. This
represents nitrogen that are lost to the environment and can create ecological imbalances on ecosystems and in water bodies.
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- Fertilizers
- Excess fertilizer use: Which countries cause environmental damage by overapplying fertilizers?
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- Cereal yield vs. fertilizer use
- Eutrophying emissions per 100 grams of protein
- Eutrophying emissions per 1000 kilocalories
- Eutrophying emissions per kilogram of food product
- Excess phosphorous from croplands
- Excess phosphorous per hectare of cropland
- Fertilizer Price Index
- Fertilizer application rates over the long-run
- Fertilizer production by nutrient type
- Fertilizer use per hectare of cropland
- Fertilizer use per hectare of cropland
- Fertilizer use vs. GDP per capita
- Insecticide use
- Nitrogen fertilizer consumption
- Nitrogen fertilizer production
- Nitrogen fertilizer use per hectare of cropland
- Nitrogen inputs per hectare of cropland
- Pesticide breakdown by type
- Pesticide use
- Pesticide use per hectare of cropland
- Phosphate and potash price indexes over the long-term
- Phosphate fertilizer consumption
- Phosphate fertilizer production
- Phosphate fertilizer use per hectare of cropland
- Potash fertilizer consumption
- Potash fertilizer production
- Potash fertilizer use per hectare of cropland
- Share of suicide deaths from pesticide poisoning
- Total fertilizer production by nutrient
- Total nitrogen inputs to crops
- Urea nutrient prices per metric ton
- Which countries are overapplying nitrogen without gains in crop yields?
- World population supported by synthetic nitrogen fertilizers
- World population with and without synthetic nitrogen fertilizers