Legacy effects of land use on soil nitrous oxide emissions in annual crop and perennial grassland ecosystems
Abstract
Land use conversions into and out of agriculture may influence soil–atmosphere greenhouse gas fluxes for many years. We tested the legacy effects of land use on cumulative soil nitrous oxide (N2O) fluxes for 5 yr following conversion of 22-yr-old Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) grasslands and conventionally tilled agricultural fields (AGR) to continuous no-till corn, switchgrass, and restored prairie. An unconverted CRP field served as a reference. We assessed the labile soil C pool of the upper 10 cm in 2009 (the conversion year) and in 2014 using short-term soil incubations. We also measured in situ soil N2O fluxes biweekly from 2009 through 2014 using static chambers except when soils were frozen. The labile C pool was approximately twofold higher in soils previously in CRP than in those formerly in tilled cropland. Five-year cumulative soil N2O emissions were approximately threefold higher in the corn system on former CRP than on former cropland despite similar fertilization rates (~184 kg N·ha-1·yr-1). The lower cumulative emissions from corn on former cropland were similar to emissions from switchgrass that was fertilized less (~57 kg N·ha-1·yr-1), regardless of former land use, and lowest emissions were observed from the unfertilized restored prairie and reference systems. Lastly, findingsmore »
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- Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, Michigan State University, East Lansing Michigan 48823 USA, Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing Michigan 48824 USA, W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners Michigan 49060 USA
- Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing Michigan 48824 USA, W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners Michigan 49060 USA
- Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing Michigan 48824 USA, W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners Michigan 49060 USA, Department of Integrative Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing Michigan 48824 USA
- Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, Michigan State University, East Lansing Michigan 48823 USA, Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing Michigan 48824 USA, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing Michigan 48824 USA
- Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing Michigan 48824 USA, W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners Michigan 49060 USA, Department of Plant, Soil, and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing Michigan 48824 USA
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- Research Org.:
- Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States). Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1439918
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1439919; OSTI ID: 1459409
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0018409; FC02-07ER64494
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Ecological Applications
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Ecological Applications Journal Volume: 28 Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 1051-0761
- Publisher:
- Ecological Society of America
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Climate change; Conservation Reserve Program; corn; emission factor; grassland; greenhouse gas; labile soil carbon; land use change; no till; restored prairie; smooth brome grass; switchgrass
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Abraha, Michael, Gelfand, Ilya, Hamilton, Stephen K., Chen, Jiquan, and Robertson, G. Philip. Legacy effects of land use on soil nitrous oxide emissions in annual crop and perennial grassland ecosystems. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1002/eap.1745.
Abraha, Michael, Gelfand, Ilya, Hamilton, Stephen K., Chen, Jiquan, & Robertson, G. Philip. Legacy effects of land use on soil nitrous oxide emissions in annual crop and perennial grassland ecosystems. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.1745
Abraha, Michael, Gelfand, Ilya, Hamilton, Stephen K., Chen, Jiquan, and Robertson, G. Philip. Fri .
"Legacy effects of land use on soil nitrous oxide emissions in annual crop and perennial grassland ecosystems". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.1745.
@article{osti_1439918,
title = {Legacy effects of land use on soil nitrous oxide emissions in annual crop and perennial grassland ecosystems},
author = {Abraha, Michael and Gelfand, Ilya and Hamilton, Stephen K. and Chen, Jiquan and Robertson, G. Philip},
abstractNote = {Land use conversions into and out of agriculture may influence soil–atmosphere greenhouse gas fluxes for many years. We tested the legacy effects of land use on cumulative soil nitrous oxide (N2O) fluxes for 5 yr following conversion of 22-yr-old Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) grasslands and conventionally tilled agricultural fields (AGR) to continuous no-till corn, switchgrass, and restored prairie. An unconverted CRP field served as a reference. We assessed the labile soil C pool of the upper 10 cm in 2009 (the conversion year) and in 2014 using short-term soil incubations. We also measured in situ soil N2O fluxes biweekly from 2009 through 2014 using static chambers except when soils were frozen. The labile C pool was approximately twofold higher in soils previously in CRP than in those formerly in tilled cropland. Five-year cumulative soil N2O emissions were approximately threefold higher in the corn system on former CRP than on former cropland despite similar fertilization rates (~184 kg N·ha-1·yr-1). The lower cumulative emissions from corn on former cropland were similar to emissions from switchgrass that was fertilized less (~57 kg N·ha-1·yr-1), regardless of former land use, and lowest emissions were observed from the unfertilized restored prairie and reference systems. Lastly, findings support the hypothesis that soil labile carbon levels modulate the response of soil N2O emissions to nitrogen inputs, with soils higher in labile carbon but otherwise similar, in this case reflecting land use history, responding more strongly to added nitrogen.},
doi = {10.1002/eap.1745},
journal = {Ecological Applications},
number = 5,
volume = 28,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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