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Baojing Gu is affiliated with Zhejiang University in China and specializes in fields related to environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their research focuses on various subfields including ecology, soil science, environmental chemistry, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, as well as global and planetary change.

The main topics Baojing Gu has covered through their publications include:

  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture

Baojing Gu's recent papers illustrate a focus on nitrogen pollution control, agriculture-environment interactions, and air pollution mitigation. Some of the notable recent works include:

  • Abating ammonia is more cost-effective than nitrogen oxides for mitigating PM 2.5 air pollution, 2021, Science
  • Cost-effective mitigation of nitrogen pollution from global croplands, 2023, Nature
  • Urbanization can benefit agricultural production with large-scale farming in China, 2021, Nature Food
  • Plastic pollution in croplands threatens long-term food security, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Consolidation of agricultural land can contribute to agricultural sustainability in China, 2021, Nature Food

Frequent collaboration has been a feature of Baojing Gu's research, with notable coauthors including Xiuming Zhang, Jianming Xu, Stefan Reis, Chenchen Ren, and Sitong Wang. Such collaborations span a broad set of work focusing on environmental science and sustainable agriculture.

Publication venues where Baojing Gu's research often appears consist of:

  • Nature Food
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Research Square
  • Nature Communications
  • Resources Conservation and Recycling

This combination of topics, venues, and collaborators highlights Baojing Gu's active engagement in addressing complex environmental and agricultural challenges, particularly through integrating soil, atmospheric, and agricultural sciences.

Best Publications

  • Policy distortions, farm size, and the overuse of agricultural chemicals in China.

    Yiyun Wu;Xican Xi;Xin Tang;Deming Luo

  • Integrated reactive nitrogen budgets and future trends in China

    Baojing Gu;Xiaotang Ju;Jie Chang;Ying Ge

  • Abating ammonia is more cost-effective than nitrogen oxides for mitigating PM 2.5 air pollution

    Baojing Gu;Lin Zhang;Rita Van Dingenen;Massimo Vieno

  • Nitrate in groundwater of China: Sources and driving forces

    Baojing Gu;Ying Ge;Scott X. Chang;Weidong Luo

  • Reducing China’s fertilizer use by increasing farm size

    Xiaotang Ju;Baojing Gu;Yiyun Wu;James N. Galloway

  • The impact of farm size on agricultural sustainability

    Chenchen Ren;Shen Liu;Hans van Grinsven;Stefan Reis

  • Urbanization can benefit agricultural production with large-scale farming in China

    Sitong Wang;Xuemei Bai;Xiaoling Zhang;Stefan Reis

  • Consolidation of agricultural land can contribute to agricultural sustainability in China

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  • Ageing threatens sustainability of smallholder farming in China

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  • Significant accumulation of nitrate in Chinese semi-humid croplands

    Junyu Zhou;Baojing Gu;William H. Schlesinger;Xiaotang Ju

  • Plastic pollution in croplands threatens long-term food security

    Dan Zhang;Ee Ling Ng;Wanli Hu;Hongyuan Wang

  • PM2.5 pollution is substantially affected by ammonia emissions in China.

    Yiyun Wu;Baojing Gu;Jan Willem Erisman;Stefan Reis

  • Ammonia Emissions May Be Substantially Underestimated in China

    Xiuming Zhang;Yiyun Wu;Xuejun Liu;Stefan Reis

  • Atmospheric reactive nitrogen in China: sources, recent trends, and damage costs.

    Baojing Gu;Ying Ge;Yuan Ren;Bin Xu

  • Decoupling livestock and crop production at the household level in China

    Shuqin Jin;Bin Zhang;Bi Wu;Dongmei Han

  • Societal benefits of halving agricultural ammonia emissions in China far exceed the abatement costs.

    Xiuming Zhang;Baojing Gu;Hans van Grinsven;Shu Kee Lam

  • A world of cobenefits: solving the global nitrogen challenge.

    Benjamin Z. Houlton;Maya Almaraz;Viney Aneja;Amy Theresa Austin

  • Does growing vegetables in plastic greenhouses enhance regional ecosystem services beyond the food supply

    Jie Chang;Xu Wu;Yan Wang;Laura A Meyerson

  • An integrated analysis on source-exposure risk of heavy metals in agricultural soils near intense electronic waste recycling activities.

    Shiyan Yang;Mingjiang He;Yuyou Zhi;Scott X. Chang

  • Rebuilding the linkage between livestock and cropland to mitigate agricultural pollution in China

    Chuanzhen Zhang;Shen Liu;Shuxia Wu;Shuqin Jin

  • Nitrogen footprint in China: food, energy, and nonfood goods.

    Baojing Gu;Allison M. Leach;Lin Ma;Lin Ma;James N. Galloway

  • Urban rivers as hotspots of regional nitrogen pollution

    Xiaohong Zhang;Yiyun Wu;Baojing Gu

Frequent Co-Authors

Deli Chen
Deli Chen University of Melbourne
Changhui Peng
Changhui Peng University of Quebec at Montreal
Stefan Reis
Stefan Reis University of Exeter
Scott X. Chang
Scott X. Chang University of Alberta
James N. Galloway
James N. Galloway University of Virginia
Jianming Xu
Jianming Xu Zhejiang University
Hongbin Liu
Hongbin Liu Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Xiaotang Ju
Xiaotang Ju China Agricultural University
Mark A. Sutton
Mark A. Sutton Natural Environment Research Council
Jan Willem Erisman
Jan Willem Erisman Leiden University

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