The contribution of cattle urine and dung to nitrous oxide emissions: Quantification of country specific emission factors and implications for national inventories

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dc.contributor.authorChadwick, D.R.
dc.contributor.authorCardenas, L.M.
dc.contributor.authorDhanoa, M.S.
dc.contributor.authorDonovan, N.
dc.contributor.authorMisselbrook, T.
dc.contributor.authorWilliams, J.R.
dc.contributor.authorThorman, R.E.
dc.contributor.authorMcGeough, Karen
dc.contributor.authorWatson, Catherine J.
dc.contributor.authorBell, M.
dc.contributor.authorAnthony, S.G.
dc.contributor.authorRees, R.M.
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-04T15:30:40Z
dc.date.available2021-06-04T15:30:40Z
dc.date.issued2018-04-24
dc.descriptionPublication history: Accepted - 10 April 2018; Published online - 24 April 2018.en_US
dc.description.abstractUrine patches and dung pats from grazing livestock create hotspots for production and emission of the greenhouse gas, nitrous oxide (N2O), and represent a large proportion of total N2O emissions in many national agricultural greenhouse gas inventories. As such, there is much interest in developing country specific N2O emission factors (EFs) for excretal nitrogen (EF3, pasture, range and paddock) deposited during gazing. The aims of this study were to generate separate N2O emissions data for cattle derived urine and dung, to provide an evidence base for the generation of a country specific EF for the UK from this nitrogen source. The experiments were also designed to determine the effects of site and timing of application on emissions, and the efficacy of the nitrification inhibitor, dicyandiamide (DCD) on N2O losses. This co-ordinated set of 15 plot-scale, year-long field experiments using static chambers was conducted at five grassland sites, typical of the soil and climatic zones of grazed grassland in the UK. We show that the average urine and dung N2O EFs were 0.69% and 0.19%, respectively, resulting in a combined excretal N2O EF (EF3), of 0.49%, which is b25% of the IPCC default EF3 for excretal returns from grazing cattle. Regression analysis suggests that urineN2O EFs were controlledmore by composition than was the case for dung, whilst dung N2O EFs were more related to soil and environmental factors. The urine N2O EF was significantly greater from the site in SW England, and significantly greater from the early grazing season urine application than later applications. Dycandiamide reduced the N2O EF fromurine patches by an average of 46%. The significantly lower excretal EF3 than the IPCC default has implications for the UK's national inventory and for subsequent carbon footprinting of UK ruminant livestock productsen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThe authors are grateful to the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (now the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs) in Northern Ireland, and the Scottish Government and the Welsh Government for financial support via the InveN2Ory project (AC0116). The work by Rothamsted Research was additionally supported by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBS/E/C/000I0320). We would also like to thank Jon Moorby (IBERS, Wales, UK), Reading University, SRUC (Scotland, UK) and Conrad Ferris (AFBI, Northern Ireland, UK), for provision of cattle urine and dung.en_US
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12518/259
dc.identifier.citationChadwick, D. R., Cardenas, L. M., Dhanoa, M. S., Donovan, N., Misselbrook, T., Williams, J. R., Thorman, R. E., McGeough, K. L., Watson, C. J., Bell, M., Anthony, S. G. and Rees, R. M. (2018) ‘The contribution of cattle urine and dung to nitrous oxide emissions: Quantification of country specific emission factors and implications for national inventories’, Science of The Total Environment, 635, pp. 607–617. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.04.152.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0048-9697
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.04.152
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.rights© 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).en_US
dc.subjectGrasslanden_US
dc.subjectGreenhouse gasen_US
dc.subjectNitrous oxideen_US
dc.subjectCattleen_US
dc.subjectUrine patchen_US
dc.subjectDung paten_US
dc.subjectNitrification inhibitoren_US
dc.titleThe contribution of cattle urine and dung to nitrous oxide emissions: Quantification of country specific emission factors and implications for national inventoriesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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