Livestock enclosures in drylands of Sub-Saharan Africa are overlooked hotspots of N2O emissions

Autor: Klaus Butterbach-Bahl, Gretchen Gettel, Ralf Kiese, Kathrin Fuchs, Christian Werner, Jaber Rahimi, Matti Barthel, Lutz Merbold
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-6 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18359-y
Popis: Africa houses approximately one third of the global cattle, sheep and goat population. Here the authors show that manure accumulation in livestock enclosures can emit significant quantities of the greenhouse gas N2O for decades after abandonment, totaling 5% of continental anthropogenic N2O emissions.
Databáze: Directory of Open Access Journals