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Review article
| 
01 Feb 2019
Review article |
| 01 Feb 2019
| 01 Feb 2019
Increased nitrogen enrichment and shifted patterns in the world's grassland: 1860–2016
Rongting Xu
International Center for Climate and Global Change Research and School
of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA
International Center for Climate and Global Change Research and School
of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA
Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, State Key Laboratory
of Urban and Regional Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
Shufen Pan
International Center for Climate and Global Change Research and School
of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA
Shree R. S. Dangal
Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA 02540, USA
International Center for Climate and Global Change Research and School
of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA
Jian Chen
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Samuel Ginn
College of Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA
International Center for Climate and Global Change Research and School
of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA
Jinfeng Chang
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE,
91191 Gif sur Yvette, France
Yonglong Lu
Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, State Key Laboratory
of Urban and Regional Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
Ute Maria Skiba
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Bush Estate, Penicuik, EH26 0QB, UK
Francesco N. Tubiello
Statistics Division, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United
Nations, Via Terme di Caracalla, Rome 00153, Italy
Bowen Zhang
International Center for Climate and Global Change Research and School
of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA
Present address: Department of Natural Resources and
Environmental Management, Ball State University, 2000 W. University Ave.,
Muncie, IN 47306, USA
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We provide three gridded datasets of synthetic nitrogen (N) fertilizer and manure N inputs in global pastures and rangelands at a resolution of 0.5° × 0.5° for the period 1860–2016 (i.e., annual manure N deposition (by grazing animals) rate, synthetic N fertilizer use rate and manure N application rate). These three datasets could fill data gaps of N inputs in global and regional grasslands and serve as input drivers for earth system models.
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