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Nitrification represents the bottle-neck of sheep urine patch N2O emissions from extensively grazed organic soils

Karina A. Marsden, J. Anders Holmberg, Davey L. Jones, Alice F. Charteris, L. M. Cardenas, David R. Chadwick

The Science of The Total Environment · 2019

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Summary

Extensively grazed grasslands are understudied in terms of their contribution to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from livestock production. Mountains, moorlands and heath occupy 18% of the UK land area, however, in situ studies providing high frequency N<sub>2</sub>O emissions from sheep urine deposited to such areas are lacking. Organic soils typical of these regions may provide substrates for denitrification-related N<sub>2</sub>O emissions, however, acidic and anoxic conditions may inhibit nitrification (and associated emissions from nitrification and denitrification). We hypothesised urine N<sub>2</sub>O-N emission factors (EFs) would be lower than the UK country-specific and IPCC default value for urine, which is based on lowland measurements. Using automated GHG sampling chambers, N<s

Source type
Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.133786
Catalogue ID
BFmoakvjs3-71vasq
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