Table 1 Tropical and global land area and N outputs

From: Prominence of the tropics in the recent rise of global nitrogen pollution

 

Land

area

River DON

exports

River DIN

exports

Fire

emissions

Denitrification

emissions

Net harvest

exports

Total land

N outputs

Total land

N outputs, %

Tropics

51

10

12 (11–13)

7

36 (27–37)

52 (42–61)

117 (107–127)

48 (46–49)

Global

151

17 (17–18)

32 (24–32)

12

96 (73–98)

86 (76–98)

242 (217–257)

100

  1. Numbers in parentheses show uncertainty test results, with a range of BNF settings1,9, different fertilizers40, different LULCC (without shifting cultivation)15, and different fractionation of N species in Nr inputs63,64. See Methods for model forcing and simulations. Units are106 km2 for land area and TgN yr−1 for fluxes