Understanding the Impact of Liquid Organic Fertilisation and Associated Application Techniques on N 2, N 2 O and CO 2 Fluxes from Agricultural Soils

Balázs Grosz, Björn Kemmann, Stefan Burkart, Søren O. Petersen and Reinhard Well
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Balázs Grosz: Thünen Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany
Björn Kemmann: Thünen Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany
Stefan Burkart: Thünen Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany
Søren O. Petersen: Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Blichers Allé 20, 8830 Tjele, Denmark
Reinhard Well: Thünen Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany

Agriculture, 2022, vol. 12, issue 5, 1-20

Abstract: The prediction of liquid manure effects on N transformations in soils and the associated N 2 O and N 2 fluxes is poor because previous investigations have mostly excluded N 2 . The objectives of this study were thus to quantify N 2 , N 2 O and CO 2 fluxes, the source processes of N 2 O, N 2 O reduction and the depth distribution of moisture, NO 3 − , NH 4 + , water-extractable organic carbon concentration and pH in a laboratory incubation study with sandy arable soil using 15 N tracing to quantify N processes and gaseous fluxes. The soil was amended with and without artificial slurry in various manure treatments (control, surface and injected) and incubated for 10 days at varying moisture levels, where the depth distribution of control parameters was determined twice during the experiment. Manure application was found to increase N 2 and N 2 O fluxes from denitrification, with the highest fluxes occurring in the wet manure injection treatment (33 ± 32 mg N m −2 d −1 and 36.1 ± 39.1 mg N m −2 d −1 , respectively), confirming that manure injection under wet conditions enhances denitrification and possibly also N 2 O fluxes. This study concluded that the current dataset is suitable as a first step towards improving the capability of biogeochemical models to predict manure application effects, but further studies with more soils and refined experiments are needed.

Keywords: manure; hot-spot; denitrification; incubation; 15 N (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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