N₂O and CH₄ emission from Miscanthus energy crop fields in the infertile Loess Plateau of China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation is one of the most important environmental benefits of using bioenergy replacing fossil fuels. Nitrous oxide (N₂O) and methane (CH₄) are important GHGs and have drawn extra attention for their roles in global warming. Although there have been many works of soil emissions of N₂O and CH₄ from bioenergy crops in the field scale, GHG emissions in large area of marginal lands are rather sparse and how soil temperature and moisture affect the emission potential remains unknown. Therefore, we sought to estimate the regional GHG emission based on N₂O and CH₄ releases from the energy crop fields.

Results

Here we sampled the top soils from two Miscanthus fields and i

SUBMITTER: Mi J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6276234 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature