Global meta-analysis of individual and combined nitrogen inhibitors: Enhancing plant productivity and reducing environmental losses

The dataset for this study was assembled by collecting all peer-reviewed publications from March 2000 to April 2024 using the Web of Science, SCOPUS, and China National Knowledge Infrastructure databases. The bibliographic retrieval process preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (PRISMA), with specific search terms used titles, keywords, and abstracts: (\"NBPT\" OR \"N-(n-butyl) thiophosphoric triamide\") AND (\"DMPP\" OR \"3,4-dimethylepyrazole phosphate\" OR \"DCD\" OR \"dicyandiamide\"). Based on the inclusion criteria, 261 experimental sites from 41 countries were selected for meta-analysis (Fig. 1).  The selection criteria were based on the following: (1) inclusion of only field observations, excluding pot and laboratory experiments; (2) experiments using urea as the base fertilizer; (3) comparison of the efficacy of individual inhibitors with combination inhibitors to determine cost-effective; (4) inclusion of treatment replicates (a minimum of three); (5) measurem..., , , # Global meta-analysis of individual and combined nitrogen inhibitors: enhancing plant productivity and reducing environmental losses

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This dataset serves the article \"Global meta-analysis of individual and combined nitrogen inhibitors: enhancing plant productivity and reducing environmental losses\" from the Global Change Biology, containing data of the inhibitor use effects under 285 different treatments extracted from 41 studies.
The meanings represented by different abbreviations are shown in the “Abbreviation”.

The “Data” table contains data on pH type, soil texture type, nitrification inhibitors type, urease inhibitors type, N application rate type, cropping system classified type, soil organic carbon type and environmental impact variables, including mean annual temperature (MAT) and local mean annual precipitation (MAP) extracted from 41 studies.

“Data sources” table are the 41 studies from whic...