What are the impacts of grazing and cutting events on the N2O dynamics in humid temperate grassland?

Geoderma

Volumn 181-182, Issue , 2012, Pages 36-44

  Rafique, Rashad ^a,b   Anex, Robert ^a   Hennessy, Deirdre ^c   Kiely, Gerard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c TEAGASC   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Animal grazing; Grass cutting; Grassland; NH4 N; Nitrous oxide; NO3 N

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL SOILS; ATMOSPHERIC CONCENTRATION; CATTLE GRAZING; DOMINANT PROCESS; FIELD STUDIES; GRASSLAND; GRASSLAND SOILS; IRELAND; NITROUS OXIDE; SEPARATE EFFECTS; SOIL TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATE GRASSLANDS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; ANESTHETICS; DENITRIFICATION; NITROGEN OXIDES; SOILS; TEMPERATURE;

SOIL POLLUTION;

AGRICULTURAL EMISSION; AGRICULTURAL SOIL; AMMONIA; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DENITRIFICATION; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FIELD METHOD; GRASSLAND; GRASSLAND SOIL; GRAZING; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; NITROGEN OXIDES; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SOIL EMISSION; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

IRELAND;

ANIMALIA; BOS;

EID: 84860304807     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2012.03.006     Document Type: Article

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