Annual NO and N2O emissions under different fertilisation regimes from a greenhouse vegetable cropping system in subtropical China
Feng Lin
A B * , Yaojun Zhang B C * , Marshall D. McDaniel D , Shuwei Liu B and Jianwen Zou B
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A School of Environmental Engineering, Nanjing Institute of Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu 211167, China.
B Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Low Carbon Agriculture and GHGs Mitigation, Nanjing Agriculture University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China.
C International Joint Research Laboratory for Global Change Ecology, School of Life Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan 475004, China.
D Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, 2517 Agronomy Hall, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
Soil Research 60(7) 692-704 https://doi.org/10.1071/SR21158
Submitted: 11 June 2021 Accepted: 22 January 2022 Published: 15 February 2022
© 2022 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing
Abstract
Context: Overuse of N fertiliser in vegetable cropping systems is known to release of nitric and nitrous oxide to the atmosphere in China. Optimisation of N fertilisation regimes has the potential to mitigate NO and N2O emissions from these N-rich systems.
Aims: We investigated the effects of different N fertilisation regimes on NO and N2O emissions, and vegetable yields, with particular efforts to estimate annual direct emission factors of NO and N2O under different N fertilisation regimes in greenhouse vegetable fields.
Methods: Annual NO and N2O fluxes were taken simultaneously using the static chamber-based method from a greenhouse vegetable system in south-east China with four N fertiliser treatments: (1) no N fertiliser (control); (2) chemical N fertiliser application (CF); (3) organic N fertiliser application (OF); and (4) organic-chemical mixed N fertiliser application (MF).
Key results: N fertilisers significantly increased NO and N2O emissions. Direct emission factors of N fertiliser for NO and N2O were the largest for MF, with an average of 0.99% and 0.67%, respectively. Vegetable yields were only significantly enhanced under OF treatment.
Conclusions: Relative to the use of chemical N fertiliser, the application of organic-chemical mixed N fertiliser showed not to be effective for mitigating NO and N2O emissions. Instead, sole application of organic N fertiliser was a viable option to enhance vegetable yields but without increasing NO and N2O emissions in greenhouse vegetable systems.
Implications: Substituting the use of chemical N fertiliser with organic N fertiliser input could benefitvegetable production but without stimulating NO and N2O emissions from vegetable cropping systems in sub-tropical China.
Keywords: emissions factor, greenhouse vegetable field, nitric oxide, nitrous oxide, NO/N2O ratio, organic fertiliser, vegetable yields, WFPS.
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