Articles | Volume 10, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1-2018
08 Jan 2018
 | 08 Jan 2018

Global and regional phosphorus budgets in agricultural systems and their implications for phosphorus-use efficiency

Fei Lun, Junguo Liu, Philippe Ciais, Thomas Nesme, Jinfeng Chang, Rong Wang, Daniel Goll, Jordi Sardans, Josep Peñuelas, and Michael Obersteiner

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We quantified in detail the P budgets in agricultural systems and PUE on global, regional, and national scales from 2002 to 2010. Globally, half of the total P inputs into agricultural systems accumulated in agricultural soils, with the rest lost to bodies of water. There are great differences in P budgets and PUE in agricultural systems on global, regional, and national scales. International trade played a significant role in P redistribution and P in fertilizer and food among countries.
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