A new tracer experiment to estimate the methane emissions from a dairy cow shed using sulfur hexafluoride (SF6)

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 413-418

  Marik, Thomas ^a   Levin, Ingeborg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COW SHED; EMISSION; LIVESTOCK; MANURE; SULPHUR HEXAFLUORIDE; TRACER EXPERIMENT;

EID: 0030433341     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: 19449224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GB01456     Document Type: Article

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