Nitrous oxide from heterogeneous agricultural landscapes: Source contribution analysis by eddy covariance and chambers

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1829-1838

  Molodovskaya, Marina ^a   Warland, Jon ^b   Richards, Brian K ^c   Öberg, Gunilla ^a   Steenhuis, Tammo S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES; CORN (ZEA MAYS L.); EDDY COVARIANCE; GROWING SEASON; MEASUREMENT CAMPAIGN; MEDICAGO; N FERTILIZERS; NITROUS OXIDE; SOURCE AREA; SOURCE CONTRIBUTIONS; STATIC CHAMBERS; UPSCALING; WIND DIRECTIONS;

INTEGRATION; NITROGEN OXIDES;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL;

AGRICULTURAL EMISSION; AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; ALFALFA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; EDDY COVARIANCE; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; GROWING SEASON; HETEROGENEITY; MAIZE; MICROMETEOROLOGY; NITROUS OXIDE; WIND DIRECTION;

EID: 82955239786     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2010.0415     Document Type: Article

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