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. 2024 Jan 2;11:17. doi: 10.1038/s41597-023-02751-6

Table 1.

FARM driver and its representation in (data = GPASOIL-v0) and (data = GPASOIL-v1).

Driver name FARM (farming practices)
Description of its effect on the soil P Soil P input/output related to farming practices
Corresponding variables in our approach Soil P input/output corresponding to: chemical fertilizer (fPchemoutilab), manure reaching cropland/grassland soils (fPmanuoutm with m in {i-lab, o-lab, o-sta}), crop/grass residues (fPresioutm with m in {i-lab, o-lab, o-sta}), and plant uptake (fPuptailabout). Here, ‘residues’ refer to plant biomass that remains on/within the soil after the harvest (for cropland) or harvest/grazing (for grassland). It includes root biomass.
Dataset ref used in (data = GPASOIL-v0) Chemical fertilizer and manure were taken from Bouwman et al.13. Residues and plant uptake were derived from P harvest/withdrawal provided by Bouwman et al.13 following basic assumptions.
Issues related to the use of this dataset in GPASOIL-v0

The approach used in Bouwman et al.13 (based on IMAGE67,) excluded ~20% of cropland area (due to some boolean treatment about land-use). This lead to some inconsistency with LUCC in GPASOIL-v0. In Bouwman et al.13, the treatment in grassland was simple: P withdrawal was estimated as ~90% of the total applied fertilizer.

In GPASOIL-v0, we used few global numbers, without crop distinction, to derive uptake and residues from withdrawal/harvest (see Supp.Inf of Ringeval et al.11).

Representation in (data = GPASOIL-v1)

For both cropland and grassland, P in manure reaching the soil was derived from a combination between N in manure reaching grassland soil given by Xu et al.31, a global P:N ratio (0.20), and P manure produced at country-scale based on livestock category population and manure production rate9.

Grassland: P in chemical fertilizer was derived from N in chemical fertilizer applied to grassland given by Xu et al.31 and a global P:N ratio (0.22). P plant uptake was derived from the actual NPP (including above and belowground NPP) in grassland and some spatially constant parameters (P concentration, etc.). P in residues was derived from P plant uptake and (1-GI) with GI: grazing intensity given by Kastner et al.41 and corresponding to the ratio of the Human appropriation of net primary production through harvest and the actual NPP. The spatial distribution of NPP provided by Kastner et al.41 was used but global average NPP was made varying between the values of Kastner et al.41 and Wang et al.42.

Cropland: P in chemical fertilizer was provided by Lu and Tian34. The latter ref. 34 assumed that all chemical fertilizer is applied to cropland and here, we corrected the chemical fertilizer applied to cropland by subtracting the chemical fertilizer applied on grassland described above. P uptake and P in residues were computed as functions of yield and crop specific parameters. Crop-dependent, spatially explicit and temporal varying yields are get by combining spatially-explicit yield per crop for year 2000 by Monfreda et al.39 and country-averaged yield (but temporal-varying) given by FAOSTAT. The yield of FAOSTAT at country-scale is extended for years before 1961 by scaling the 1961 yield with the country-sale human population provided by HYDE 3.223. Yield is then combined with different crop dependent parameters (concentration of P in different organs -root, harvest, aboveground biomass excluding the harvest, root:shoot ratio and harvest index) and fraction of total residus remaining on/within soil (equal to 1/2 or 0, following Smil44).

Characteristics of the spatially explicit dataset used in (data = GPASOIL-v1) Xu et al.31 provided for grassland, chemical N fertilizer for years between 1961 and 2016, and N in manure for years between 1860 and 2016, both in kgN.km−2.yr−1, and at half-degree spatial resolution68 (10.1594/PANGAEA.892940). Demay et al.9 provided P manure produced at country-scale per livestock category for years between 1950 and 2017 (6910.57745/LEPJCS). Kastner et al.41 provided NPP (in gC m−2 yr−1) and GI (no unit) for grassland for some years (1910, 1930, 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010) at 0.083° spatial resolution(7010.5281/zenodo.7313791). Lu and Tian34 provided chemical P fertilizer applied on cropland for any years between 1900 and 2013, in gP m−2 yr−1, at half-degree spatial resolution, (7110.1594/PANGAEA.863323). Zhang et al.30 provided N in manure applied on cropland for any years between 1860 and 2014, in in kgN.km−2.yr−1 at half-degree spatial resolution (7210.1594/PANGAEA.871980). Monfreda et al.39 provided crop-dependent and spatially explicit (half-degree resolution) yield for years ~2000 (Earthstat dataset, http://www.earthstat.org/harvested-area-yield-175-crops/). FAOSTAT provided country-averaged and crop-dependent yield for any years over 1961–2019 (FAOSTAT. License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. Extracted from: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QCL and https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#definitions Data of Access: 20-01-2023.). Klein Goldewijk23 provided the country-sale human population (HYDE 3.273, 10.17026/dans-25g-gez3).