Adequate vegetative cover decreases nitrous oxide emissions from cattle urine deposited in grazed pastures under rainy season conditions

A decline in pasture productivity is often associated with a reduction in vegetative cover. We hypothesize that nitrogen (N) in urine deposited by grazing cattle on degraded pastures, with low vegetative cover, is highly susceptible to losses. Here, we quantified the magnitude of urine-based nitrous...

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Autores principales: Chirinda, Ngonidzashe, Loaiza, Sandra, Arenas, Laura, Ruiz, Veronica, Faverin, Claudia, Alvarez, Carolina, Savian, Jean Víctor, Belfon, Renaldo, Zuniga, Karen, Morales-Rincon, Luis Alberto, Trujillo, Catalina, Arango, Miguel, Rao, Idupulapati, Arango, Jacobo, Peters, Michael, Barahona, Rolando, Costa, Ciniro, Rosenstock, Todd, Richards, Meryl, Martinez Baron, Deissy, Cardenas, Laura
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-37453-2
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-37453-2
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author Chirinda, Ngonidzashe
Loaiza, Sandra
Arenas, Laura
Ruiz, Veronica
Faverin, Claudia
Alvarez, Carolina
Savian, Jean Víctor
Belfon, Renaldo
Zuniga, Karen
Morales-Rincon, Luis Alberto
Trujillo, Catalina
Arango, Miguel
Rao, Idupulapati
Arango, Jacobo
Peters, Michael
Barahona, Rolando
Costa, Ciniro
Rosenstock, Todd
Richards, Meryl
Martinez Baron, Deissy
Cardenas, Laura
author_browse Alvarez, Carolina
Arango, Jacobo
Arango, Miguel
Arenas, Laura
Barahona, Rolando
Belfon, Renaldo
Cardenas, Laura
Chirinda, Ngonidzashe
Costa, Ciniro
Faverin, Claudia
Loaiza, Sandra
Martinez Baron, Deissy
Morales-Rincon, Luis Alberto
Peters, Michael
Rao, Idupulapati
Richards, Meryl
Rosenstock, Todd
Ruiz, Veronica
Savian, Jean Víctor
Trujillo, Catalina
Zuniga, Karen
author_facet Chirinda, Ngonidzashe
Loaiza, Sandra
Arenas, Laura
Ruiz, Veronica
Faverin, Claudia
Alvarez, Carolina
Savian, Jean Víctor
Belfon, Renaldo
Zuniga, Karen
Morales-Rincon, Luis Alberto
Trujillo, Catalina
Arango, Miguel
Rao, Idupulapati
Arango, Jacobo
Peters, Michael
Barahona, Rolando
Costa, Ciniro
Rosenstock, Todd
Richards, Meryl
Martinez Baron, Deissy
Cardenas, Laura
author_sort Chirinda, Ngonidzashe
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description A decline in pasture productivity is often associated with a reduction in vegetative cover. We hypothesize that nitrogen (N) in urine deposited by grazing cattle on degraded pastures, with low vegetative cover, is highly susceptible to losses. Here, we quantified the magnitude of urine-based nitrous oxide (N2O) lost from soil under paired degraded (low vegetative cover) and non-degraded (adequate vegetative cover) pastures across five countries of the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region and estimated urine-N emission factors. Soil N2O emissions from simulated cattle urine patches were quantified with closed static chambers and gas chromatography. At the regional level, rainy season cumulative N2O emissions (3.31 versus 1.91 kg N2O-N ha−1) and emission factors (0.42 versus 0.18%) were higher for low vegetative cover compared to adequate vegetative cover pastures. Findings indicate that under rainy season conditions, adequate vegetative cover through proper pasture management could help reduce urine-induced N2O emissions from grazed pastures.
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spelling INTA88552021-03-10T10:47:46Z Adequate vegetative cover decreases nitrous oxide emissions from cattle urine deposited in grazed pastures under rainy season conditions Chirinda, Ngonidzashe Loaiza, Sandra Arenas, Laura Ruiz, Veronica Faverin, Claudia Alvarez, Carolina Savian, Jean Víctor Belfon, Renaldo Zuniga, Karen Morales-Rincon, Luis Alberto Trujillo, Catalina Arango, Miguel Rao, Idupulapati Arango, Jacobo Peters, Michael Barahona, Rolando Costa, Ciniro Rosenstock, Todd Richards, Meryl Martinez Baron, Deissy Cardenas, Laura Emisiones de Gas Ganado Plantas de Cobertura Óxido Nitroso Mitigación del Cambio Climático Gas Emissions Livestock Cover Plants Nitrous Oxide Climate Change Mitigation A decline in pasture productivity is often associated with a reduction in vegetative cover. We hypothesize that nitrogen (N) in urine deposited by grazing cattle on degraded pastures, with low vegetative cover, is highly susceptible to losses. Here, we quantified the magnitude of urine-based nitrous oxide (N2O) lost from soil under paired degraded (low vegetative cover) and non-degraded (adequate vegetative cover) pastures across five countries of the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region and estimated urine-N emission factors. Soil N2O emissions from simulated cattle urine patches were quantified with closed static chambers and gas chromatography. At the regional level, rainy season cumulative N2O emissions (3.31 versus 1.91 kg N2O-N ha−1) and emission factors (0.42 versus 0.18%) were higher for low vegetative cover compared to adequate vegetative cover pastures. Findings indicate that under rainy season conditions, adequate vegetative cover through proper pasture management could help reduce urine-induced N2O emissions from grazed pastures. EEA Balcarce Fil: Chirinda, Ngonidzashe. Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical; Colombia. Fil: Loaiza, Sandra Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical; Colombia. Fil: Arenas, Laura. Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical; Colombia. Fil: Ruiz, Verónica. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua; Nicaragua. Fil: Faverín, Claudia. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Balcarce; Argentina. Fil: Alvarez, Carolina. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Manfredi; Argentina. Fil: Savian, Jean Víctor. Universidad Federal de Río Grande del Sur; Brasil. Fil: Belfon, Renaldo. The University of the West Indies, San Agustín; Trinidad y Tobago. Fil: Zuniga, Karen. Universidad Nacional de Colombia; Colombia. Fil: Morales Rincon, Luis Alberto. Universidad Nacional de Colombia; Colombia. Fil: Trujillo, Catalina. Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical; Colombia. Fil: Arango, Miguel. Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria; Colombia. Fil: Rao, Idupulapati. National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, Agricultural Research Service; Estados Unidos Fil: Arango, Jacobo. Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical; Colombia. Fil: Peters, Michael. Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical; Colombia. Fil: Barahona, Rolando. Universidad Nacional de Colombia; Colombia. Fil: Costa, Ciniro. Institute of Agricultural and Forest Management and Certification; Brasil. Fil: Rosenstock, Todd . World Agroforestry Center; República Democrática de Congo Fil: Richards, Meryl. University of Vermont. Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources; Estados Unidos Fil: Martinez Baron, Deissy. Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical; Colombia. Fil: Cardenas, Laura. Sustainable Agriculture Sciences Department. Rothamsted Research; Reino Unido. 2021-03-10T10:36:01Z 2021-03-10T10:36:01Z 2019-01-29 info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/8855 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-37453-2 2045-2322 (online) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-37453-2 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf Nature Publishing Scientific Reports 9 : 908 (2019)
spellingShingle Emisiones de Gas
Ganado
Plantas de Cobertura
Óxido Nitroso
Mitigación del Cambio Climático
Gas Emissions
Livestock
Cover Plants
Nitrous Oxide
Climate Change Mitigation
Chirinda, Ngonidzashe
Loaiza, Sandra
Arenas, Laura
Ruiz, Veronica
Faverin, Claudia
Alvarez, Carolina
Savian, Jean Víctor
Belfon, Renaldo
Zuniga, Karen
Morales-Rincon, Luis Alberto
Trujillo, Catalina
Arango, Miguel
Rao, Idupulapati
Arango, Jacobo
Peters, Michael
Barahona, Rolando
Costa, Ciniro
Rosenstock, Todd
Richards, Meryl
Martinez Baron, Deissy
Cardenas, Laura
Adequate vegetative cover decreases nitrous oxide emissions from cattle urine deposited in grazed pastures under rainy season conditions
title Adequate vegetative cover decreases nitrous oxide emissions from cattle urine deposited in grazed pastures under rainy season conditions
title_full Adequate vegetative cover decreases nitrous oxide emissions from cattle urine deposited in grazed pastures under rainy season conditions
title_fullStr Adequate vegetative cover decreases nitrous oxide emissions from cattle urine deposited in grazed pastures under rainy season conditions
title_full_unstemmed Adequate vegetative cover decreases nitrous oxide emissions from cattle urine deposited in grazed pastures under rainy season conditions
title_short Adequate vegetative cover decreases nitrous oxide emissions from cattle urine deposited in grazed pastures under rainy season conditions
title_sort adequate vegetative cover decreases nitrous oxide emissions from cattle urine deposited in grazed pastures under rainy season conditions
topic Emisiones de Gas
Ganado
Plantas de Cobertura
Óxido Nitroso
Mitigación del Cambio Climático
Gas Emissions
Livestock
Cover Plants
Nitrous Oxide
Climate Change Mitigation
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/8855
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-37453-2
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-37453-2
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