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Environmental Sciences
Spain
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
50
Citations
14367
World Ranking
4867
National Ranking
126

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Luis Lassaletta is affiliated with the Technical University of Madrid in Spain. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including Environmental Chemistry, Soil Science, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Ecology, and Environmental Engineering.

Their scholarly work explores key topics such as Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Phosphorus and Nutrient Management, Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, Crop Yield and Soil Fertility, and Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis.

Recent publications include:

  • "Quantification of global and national nitrogen budgets for crop production," 2021, Nature Food
  • "Reshaping the European agro-food system and closing its nitrogen cycle: The potential of combining dietary change, agroecology, and circularity," 2021, One Earth
  • "Quantifying Nutrient Budgets for Sustainable Nutrient Management," 2020, Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • "The nitrogen decade: mobilizing global action on nitrogen to 2030 and beyond," 2021, One Earth
  • "More efficient phosphorus use can avoid cropland expansion," 2021, Nature Food

The venues where Luis Lassaletta frequently publishes include:

  • Nature Food
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Research Square (Research Square)

Lassaletta collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including Alberto Sanz-Cobeña, Eduardo Aguilera, Rasmus Einarsson, Gilles Billen, and Josette Garnier. These collaborations reflect a network that supports multidisciplinary research across various aspects of nutrient dynamics and environmental sustainability.

Best Publications

  • Options for keeping the food system within environmental limits

    Marco Springmann;Michael Clark;Daniel Mason-D’Croz;Daniel Mason-D’Croz;Keith Wiebe

  • 50 year trends in nitrogen use efficiency of world cropping systems: the relationship between yield and nitrogen input to cropland

    Luis Lassaletta;Gilles Billen;Gilles Billen;Bruna Grizzetti;Juliette Anglade

  • Energy, land-use and greenhouse gas emissions trajectories under a green growth paradigm

    Detlef P. van Vuuren;Detlef P. van Vuuren;Elke Stehfest;David E. H. J. Gernaat;David E. H. J. Gernaat;Jonathan C. Doelman

  • Impacts of European livestock production: nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus and greenhouse gas emissions, land-use, water eutrophication and biodiversity

    Adrian Leip;Gilles Billen;Josette Garnier;Bruna Grizzetti

  • Managing soil carbon for climate change mitigation and adaptation in Mediterranean cropping systems: A meta-analysis

    Eduardo Aguilera;Luis Lassaletta;Luis Lassaletta;Andreas Gattinger;Benjamín S. Gimeno

  • The potential of organic fertilizers and water management to reduce N2O emissions in Mediterranean climate cropping systems. A review

    Eduardo Aguilera;Luis Lassaletta;Luis Lassaletta;Alberto Sanz-Cobena;Josette Garnier

  • Acceleration of global N2O emissions seen from two decades of atmospheric inversion

    R. L. Thompson;L. Lassaletta;P. K. Patra;C. Wilson

  • Exploring SSP land-use dynamics using the IMAGE model: Regional and gridded scenarios of land-use change and land-based climate change mitigation

    Jonathan C. Doelman;Elke Stehfest;Andrzej Tabeau;Hans van Meijl

  • Food and feed trade as a driver in the global nitrogen cycle: 50-year trends

    Luis Lassaletta;Gilles Billen;Bruna Grizzetti;Josette Garnier

  • Nitrogen use in the global food system: past trends and future trajectories of agronomic performance, pollution, trade, and dietary demand

    Luis Lassaletta;Luis Lassaletta;Gilles Billen;Josette Garnier;Lex Bouwman;Lex Bouwman

  • The nitrogen cascade from agricultural soils to the sea: modelling nitrogen transfers at regional watershed and global scales

    Gilles Billen;Josette Garnier;Luis Lassaletta;Luis Lassaletta

  • Strategies for greenhouse gas emissions mitigation in Mediterranean agriculture: a review.

    A. Sanz-Cobena;L. Lassaletta;E. Aguilera;A. del Prado

  • Direct nitrous oxide emissions in Mediterranean climate cropping systems: Emission factors based on a meta-analysis of available measurement data

    Maria L. Cayuela;Eduardo Aguilera;Alberto Sanz-Cobena;Dean C. Adams

  • Lessons from temporal and spatial patterns in global use of N and P fertilizer on cropland

    A. F. Bouwman;A. F. Bouwman;A. H. W. Beusen;A. H. W. Beusen;L. Lassaletta;D. F. van Apeldoorn

  • Quantification of global and national nitrogen budgets for crop production

    Xin Zhang;Tan Zou;Luis Lassaletta;Nathaniel D. Mueller

  • The contribution of food waste to global and European nitrogen pollution

    Bruna Grizzetti;Ugo Pretato;Luis Lassaletta;Gilles Billen

  • Large-scale patterns of river inputs in southwestern Europe: seasonal and interannual variations and potential eutrophication effects at the coastal zone

    Estela Romero;Josette Garnier;Luis Lassaletta;Gilles Billen

  • Quantifying Nutrient Budgets for Sustainable Nutrient Management

    X. Zhang;E. A. Davidson;T. Zou;L. Lassaletta

  • Reshaping the European agro-food system and closing its nitrogen cycle: The potential of combining dietary change, agroecology, and circularity

    Gilles Billen;Eduardo Aguilera;Rasmus Einarsson;Rasmus Einarsson;Josette Garnier

  • Exploring nitrogen indicators of farm performance among farm types across several European case studies

    M. Quemada;L. Lassaletta;L.S. Jensen;O. Godinot

  • A biogeochemical view of the global agro-food system: Nitrogen flows associated with protein production, consumption and trade

    Gilles Billen;Gilles Billen;Luis Lassaletta;Josette Garnier;Josette Garnier

  • How changes in diet and trade patterns have shaped the N cycle at the national scale: Spain (1961–2009)

    Luis Lassaletta;Luis Lassaletta;Gilles Billen;Estela Romero;Estela Romero;Josette Garnier

Frequent Co-Authors

Josette Garnier
Josette Garnier Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Gilles Billen
Gilles Billen Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Bruna Grizzetti
Bruna Grizzetti Université Paris Cité
Paul Van de Heyning
Paul Van de Heyning University of Antwerp
Alexander F. Bouwman
Alexander F. Bouwman Utrecht University
Arthur H. W. Beusen
Arthur H. W. Beusen Utrecht University
Miguel Quemada
Miguel Quemada Technical University of Madrid
Hinrich Staecker
Hinrich Staecker University of Kansas
Isabel Varela-Nieto
Isabel Varela-Nieto Spanish National Research Council
Shin-ichi Usami
Shin-ichi Usami Shinshu University

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