Guo, Ruiying, Nendel, Claas, Rahn, C. (Clive), Jiang, Chunguang and Chen, Q. (Qing). (2010) Tracking nitrogen losses in a greenhouse crop rotation experiment in North China using the EU-Rotate_N simulation model. Environmental Pollution, Vol.158 (No.6). pp. 2218-2229. ISSN 0269-7491

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Abstract

Vegetable production in China is associated with high inputs of nitrogen, posing a risk of losses to the environment. Organic matter mineralisation is a considerable source of nitrogen (N) which is hard to quantify. In a two-year greenhouse cucumber experiment with different N treatments in North China, non-observed pathways of the N cycle were estimated using the EU-Rotate_N simulation model. EU-Rotate_N was calibrated against crop dry matter and soil moisture data to predict crop N uptake, soil mineral N contents, N mineralisation and N loss. Crop N uptake (Modelling Efficiencies (ME) between 0.80 and 0.92) and soil mineral N contents in different soil layers (ME between 0.24 and 0.74) were satisfactorily simulated by the model for all N treatments except for the traditional N management. The model predicted high N mineralisation rates and N leaching losses, suggesting that previously published estimates of N leaching for these production systems strongly underestimated the mineralisation of N from organic matter.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	S Agriculture > SB Plant culture
Divisions:	Faculty of Science > Life Sciences (2010- ) > Warwick HRI (2004-2010)
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Cucumbers -- China, Greenhouse management -- China, Crop rotation -- China, Nitrogen cycle
Journal or Publication Title:	Environmental Pollution
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0269-7491
Date:	June 2010
Volume:	Vol.158
Number:	No.6
Page Range:	pp. 2218-2229
Identification Number:	10.1016/j.envpol.2010.02.014
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
Funder:	Guo jia zi ran ke xue ji jin wei yuan hui (China) [National Natural Science Foundation of China] (NSFC), Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), China Scholarship Council (CSC), China. Guo jia ke xue ji shu bu [Ministry of Science and Technology]
Grant number:	Project 30671236 (NSFC), Project 4080110 (NSFC), 2006BAD17B03 (MST), 2008BADA4B05 (MST)
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