Postharvest nitrous oxide emissions from a subtropical oxisol as influenced by summer crop residues and their management

Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo

Luisa Fernanda Escobar²  Telmo Jorge Carneiro Amado¹  Cimélio Bayer¹  Luis Fernando Chavez²  Josiléia Acordi Zanatta²  Jackson Ernani Fiorin¹ 

[1] ,Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul PPG Ciência do Solo Porto Alegre RS

关键词: global warming;    subtropical soils;    greenhouse gases;    soil tillage;    crop rotation;    aquecimento global;    solos tropicais;    gases de efeito estufa;    preparos de solo;    rotação de culturas;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0100-06832010000200024

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

Nitrous oxide (N2O) is the most important non-CO2 greenhouse gas and soil management systems should be evaluated for their N2O mitigation potential. This research evaluated a long-term (22 years) experiment testing the effect of soil management systems on N2O emissions in the postharvest period (autumn) from a subtropical Rhodic Hapludox at the research center FUNDACEP, in Cruz Alta, state of Rio Grande do Sul. Three treatments were evaluated, one under conventional tillage with soybean residues (CTsoybean) and two under no-tillage with soybean (NTsoybean) and maize residues (NTmaize). N2O emissions were measured eight times within 24 days (May 2007) using closed static chambers. Gas flows were obtained based on the relations between gas concentrations in the chamber at regular intervals (0, 15, 30, 45 min) analyzed by gas chromatography. After soybean harvest, accumulated N2O emissions in the period were approximately three times higher in the untilled soil (164 mg m-2 N) than under CT (51 mg m-2 N), with a short-lived N2O peak of 670 mg m-2 h-1 N. In contrast, soil N2O emissions in NT were lower after maize than after soybean, with a N2O peak of 127 g m-2 h-1 N. The multivariate analysis of N2O fluxes and soil variables, which were determined simultaneously with air sampling, demonstrated that the main driving variables of soil N2O emissions were soil microbial activity, temperature, water-filled pore space, and NO3- content. To replace soybean monoculture, crop rotation including maize must be considered as a strategy to decrease soil N2O emissions from NT soils in Southern Brazil in a Autumn.

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