Claim · model-written summary
Nitrogen uptake explained 54.06% of national yield response variation.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- N uptakee0
- Outcome
- yield responsee0
- Value
- 54.06%e0
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Verbatim
e0“N uptake was the dominant driver of yield response, accounting for 54.06% of the variation”
t0“wheat systems”
Title
Yan'ge Yan; Shuiqin Zhang; Yingqiang Zhang; et al. Resources Environment and Sustainability 2025. doi:10.1016/j.resenv.2025.100270
Other claims from this paper (19)
- Intervention effect Nitrogen fertilization increased wheat yield by 65.40%.
- Observation Applied nitrogen partitioned into 41.56% uptake.
- Observation Applied nitrogen partitioned into 29.66% residual.
- Observation Applied nitrogen partitioned into 38.81% losses.
- Observation Reactive nitrogen losses included 9.35% ammonia.
- Observation Reactive nitrogen losses included 0.73% nitrous oxide.
- Observation Reactive nitrogen losses included 0.38% nitric oxide.
- Observation Reactive nitrogen losses included 7.38% leaching.
- Observation Reactive nitrogen losses included 4.68% runoff.
- Observation Nitrogen uptake increased from north to south.
- Observation Residual nitrogen decreased from north to south.
- Observation Nitrogen loss decreased from north to south.
- Observation Ammonia volatilization accounted for 91.76% of total nitrogen loss in northern China.
- Observation In central China, ammonia made up 53.45% of losses.
- Observation In central China, nitrogen leaching made up 41.38% of losses.
- Observation Southern China had a more even distribution of nitrogen loss pathways.
- Association Nitrogen application rate was the principal determinant of nitrogen fate.
- Association Regional nitrogen uptake and loss contributions to yield response varied.
- Recommendation The authors recommend reducing nitrogen loss in northern and southern China and managing residual nitrogen in central China.