Methane emissions from animal agriculture: Micrometeorological solutions for challenging measurement situations

J Laubach, TK Flesch, C Ammann, M Bai, Z Gao… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2024 - Elsevier
Methane (CH 4) is the second-most important greenhouse gas in terms of its total
contribution to global warming, and animal agriculture accounts for a significant share of its …

Review of greenhouse gas emissions from the storage and land application of farm dairy effluent

J Laubach, S Heubeck, C Pratt… - New Zealand Journal …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The amounts of farm dairy effluent stored in ponds and irrigated to land have steadily
increased with the steady growth of New Zealand's dairy industry. About 80% of dairy farms …

Methane emissions from storage of digestate at a dairy manure biogas facility

L Maldaner, C Wagner-Riddle, AC VanderZaag… - Agricultural and forest …, 2018 - Elsevier
Conventional manure storages are an important source of methane (CH 4), a potent
greenhouse gas. Anaerobic digestion is an alternative manure management practice …

Ammonia and greenhouse gases emission from impermeable covered storage and land application of cattle slurry to bare soil

M Viguria, A Sanz-Cobeña, DM López… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2015 - Elsevier
Handling a large volume of livestock wastes in intensive farm systems could lead to adverse
environmental effects, such as excessive load of nutrients to the soil and gaseous losses …

Exploring soil nitrogen and sulfur dynamics: implications for greenhouse gas emissions on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau

S Feng, J Luo, M Li, Y Hu, M Cao - Environmental Geochemistry and …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The Qinghai–Tibet Plateau is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change
and disturbances caused by human activity. To better understand the interactions between …

Methane emissions from southern High Plains dairy wastewater lagoons in the summer

RW Todd, NA Cole, KD Casey, R Hagevoort… - Animal feed science and …, 2011 - Elsevier
Methane is a greenhouse gas with a global warming potential 25-fold that of CO2, and
animal agriculture is recognized as a source of CH4 to the atmosphere. Dairy farms on the …

Towards an inventory of methane emissions from manure management that is responsive to changes on Canadian farms

AC VanderZaag, JD MacDonald, L Evans… - Environmental …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Methane emissions from manure management represent an important mitigation
opportunity, yet emission quantification methods remain crude and do not contain adequate …

Gaseous and fluvial carbon export from an Amazon forest watershed

V Neu, C Neill, AV Krusche - Biogeochemistry, 2011 - Springer
The transfer of carbon (C) from Amazon forests to aquatic ecosystems as CO 2
supersaturated in groundwater that outgases to the atmosphere after it reaches small …

Biases in discrete CH4 and N2O sampling protocols associated with temporal variation of gas fluxes from manure storage systems

JD Wood, RJ Gordon, C Wagner-Riddle - Agricultural and Forest …, 2013 - Elsevier
Manure slurry storage systems are possible sources of methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide
(N2O), both of which are strong greenhouse gases (GHG). The most commonly used …

Nutrient losses during winter and summer storage of separated and unseparated digested cattle slurry

F Perazzolo, G Mattachini, E Riva… - … of environmental quality, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Management factors affect nutrient loss during animal manure slurry storage in different
ways. We conducted a pilot‐scale study to evaluate carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) losses from …