Modelling nitrous oxide emissions from grazed grassland systems

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• 作者：Junye Wang^a ; ^{junye.wang@rothamsted.ac.uk} ; Laura M. Cardenas^a ; Tom H. Misselbrook^a ; Steve Cuttle^a ; Rachel E. Thorman^b ; Changsheng Li^c
• 关键词：Greenhouse gas ; Nitrous oxide ; Process-based model ; Agricultural management ; Grazed grassland
• 刊名：Environmental Pollution
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：March 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：162
• 期：Complete
• 页码：223-233
• 全文大小：1773 K

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Grazed grassland systems are an important component of the global carbon cycle and also influence global climate change through their emissions of nitrous oxide and methane. However, there are huge uncertainties and challenges in the development and parameterisation of process-based models for grazed grassland systems because of the wide diversity of vegetation and impacts of grazing animals. A?process-based biogeochemistry model, DeNitrification-DeComposition (DNDC), has been modified to describe N₂O emissions for the UK from regional conditions. This paper reports a new development of UK-DNDC in which the animal grazing practices were modified to track their contributions to the soil nitrogen (N) biogeochemistry. The new version of UK-DNDC was tested against datasets of N₂O fluxes measured at three contrasting field sites. The results showed that the responses of the model to changes in grazing parameters were generally in agreement with observations, showing that N₂O emissions increased as the grazing intensity increased.