| Literature DB >> 23565186 |
Marijn van der Velde1, Linda See, Liangzhi You, Juraj Balkovič, Steffen Fritz, Nikolay Khabarov, Michael Obersteiner, Stanley Wood.
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The continuing depletion of nutrients from agricultural soils in Sub-SaharanEntities:
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Year: 2013 PMID: 23565186 PMCID: PMC3615004 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060075
Source DB: PubMed Journal: PLoS One ISSN: 1932-6203 Impact factor: 3.240
Figure 1Cereal yield trends since 1960 in Africa, Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA), South America and Asia.
Figure 2Crosses indicate locations of 1358 historic FAO corn field trials with at least five N and P input combinations in Africa and South America carried out between 1969 and 1993.
Colors indicate (subnational) maize (corn) yields (ton/ha) as collected by [23].
Figure 3A typical example of a fitted crop response trial with experimental (blue line with circles) and modeled data (black line with squares) with eight N and P input combinations and resulting yields.
The median, 25th and 75th percentile values from the distributions of the Mitscherlich-Baule crop response function parameters (a1, a2, a3 and a4) fitted for the 1358 individual crop trials.
| Parameter | Median | 25th percentile | 75th percentile |
| a1 | 0.017321 | 0.0077335 | 0.047077 |
| a2 | 68.4297 | 21.6344 | 285.0599 |
| a3 | 0.29219 | 0.047732 | 0.29219 |
| a4 | 3.1803 | 0.99095 | 13.0806 |
Figure 4Relationship between historic FAO experimental corn field trials with at least five N and P input combinations and corn yields calculated with the Mitscherlich-Baule crop response function totaling 1358 unique nutrient-yield relations (r2 = 0.94).
Figure 5Mean corn yield increase (%) across trial sites at additional applications of 10 kg N ha−1, 10 kg P ha−1 or 10 kg N and P ha−1 (error bars refer to the standard deviation of the obtained yield increases observed across all trials).
Figure 6Mean corn yield increase (%) across trial sites at applications of 80 kg N ha−1 and 20 kg P ha−1 (error bars refer to the standard deviation of the obtained yield increases observed across all trials).
Cost of the proposed scenarios expressed as the percentage of Agricultural GDP.
| Region | Cost as a % of Agricultural GDP | |
| Scenario 1 | Scenario 2 | |
| SSA | 0.10% | 0.53% |
| SA | 0.04% | 0.22% |