A simple methodology to estimate plant volume in nitrous oxide emission studies

Autor: D. Quílez, Ramón Isla, Noemí Mateo-Marín
Přispěvatelé: CSIC - Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA), Fondo de Inversiones de Teruel
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Zaguán: Repositorio Digital de la Universidad de Zaragoza
Universidad de Zaragoza
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ISSN: 1537-2537
Popis: 5 Pags.- 4 Figs. © 2020 The Authors. Journal of Environmental Quality published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Closed‐chamber methodology is widely used for the estimation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in agricultural systems. The volume displaced by plants inside chambers influences GHG flux estimation, although generally it is not discounted from chamber headspace in the calculation. A novel image analysis–based procedure is proposed to estimate plant volume and to assess its impact on nitrous oxide (N2O) flux estimations in a wheat (Triticum aestivum L. ‘Rimbaud’) crop. A maximum of 2.2% of the 13‐L chambers was displaced by plants, leading to a systematic 0.9% overestimation in cumulative N2O emissions if plant volume was not considered. Thus, plant canopy volume should be taken into account for improving the accuracy of emissions.
This study was funded by the Spanish National Institute for Agricultural Research (RTA2013-00057-C05-04 and FPIINIA CPD-2015-0044) and “Fondo de inversión de Teruel.”
Databáze: OpenAIRE