Effects of irrigating dairy-grazed grassland with farm dairy effluent on nitrous oxide emissions

Plant and Soil

Volumn 309, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 119-130

  Luo, Jiafa ^a   Saggar, Surinder ^b   Bhandral, Rita ^b,c   Bolan, Nanthi ^b,d   Ledgard, Stewart ^a   Lindsey, Stuart ^a   Sun, Wentao ^a  

^a RUAKURA RESEARCH CENTRE   (New Zealand)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dairy grazed pasture; Farm dairy effluent; Irrigation; Mitigation strategies; New Zealand; Nitrous oxide emission; Poorly drained soil

Indexed keywords

DAIRY FARMING; EFFLUENT; EMISSION; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; IRRIGATION; NITROUS OXIDE; SILTY LOAM; SOIL EMISSION;

AUSTRALASIA; MANAWATU; MANAWATU-WANGANUI; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; WAIKATO;

EID: 47349110689     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-008-9550-3     Document Type: Article

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