Project Details
Projekt
Greenhouse Gas Emission of Different Crop Rotations of Rice (flooded and non-flooded) and Maize
Applicant
Privatdozent Dr. Ralf Kiese
Subject Area
Soil Sciences
Term
from 2011 to 2014
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 194371065
This subproject will assess net-fluxes of CH4 and N2O as well as soil CO2 emissions from flooded and non-flooded rice as well as maize grown in different rotations and under different management practices. SP5 will encompass two research tasks, (i) automated chamber measurements and (ii) soil gas concentration measurements of different crop rotations. In total 36 automated chambers will be placed in two large field blocks (18 chambers each) divided into fields representing three crop-rotations: R-WET (rice flooded - rice flooded), R-MIX (rice flooded – rice non-flooded), M-MIX (maize - rice flooded) experiencing three differ-ent crop management practices: a control with no fertilizer application (zero-N), site specific nutrient management (site-spec) and conventional fertilizer application (conv). In the fields of conventional fertilization SP5 will also conduct soil concentration measurements of CO2, N2O and CH4 for identification of the main production and/ or consumption horizons which may differ between the three crop rotation systems which will allow identification of the dominating processes responsible for GHG exchange with the atmosphere. Emissions of different greenhouse gases together with data on biomass production/ yields (conducted by IRRI) will be aggregated to compile the total GHG exchange of different crop rotations and management practices. Thus, the data obtained in SP5 will create a sound basis for projecting the environmental consequences of different land use options in rice-based systems with respect to the net GHG exchange. Moreover, data obtained in SP5 will be linked in particular with results from C and N process studies of SP1-SP4 and will form a sound base for further development, testing and valida-tion of the process based model applied in SP6/ 7.
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