Tradeoffs between Maize Silage Yield and Nitrate Leaching in a Mediterranean Nitrate-Vulnerable Zone under Current and Projected Climate Scenarios
Fig 7
Inter-annual variability and inter-GCMs variability associated to nitrate leaching and harvested biomass.
Average annual nitrate leached and harvest biomass for maize for the NMIN (open triangle), CONV (open circle), N0 (filled triangle) and BMP (filled circle) treatments in the long term rotation (2020–2073). Fig7a and b shows the inter-year variability when GCMs simulations are averaged. Fig7c and d shows the variability over the GCMs when average are computed over years. Fig7a and c refer to RCP6.0 scenario, while Fig7b and d refer to RCP8.5.