Response patterns of simulated corn yield and soil nitrous oxide emission to precipitation change

Kaur, Navneet; Hui, Dafeng; Riccuito, Daniel M.; Mayes, Melanie A.; Tian, Hanqin

doi:10.1186/s13717-023-00429-w

Title: Response patterns of simulated corn yield and soil nitrous oxide emission to precipitation change

Journal Article · 07 April 2023 · Ecological Processes

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13717-023-00429-w · OSTI ID:1968959

Kaur, Navneet;

; Riccuito, Daniel M.; Mayes, Melanie A.; Tian, Hanqin

Abstract Background Precipitation plays an important role in crop production and soil greenhouse gas emissions. However, how crop yield and soil nitrous oxide (N ₂ O) emission respond to precipitation change, particularly with different background precipitations (dry, normal, and wet years), has not been well investigated. In this study, we examined the impacts of precipitation changes on corn yield and soil N ₂ O emission using a long-term (1981–2020, 40 years) climate dataset as well as seven manipulated precipitation treatments with different background precipitations using the DeNitrification-DeComposition (DNDC) model. Results Results showed large variations of corn yield and precipitation but small variation of soil N ₂ O emission among 40 years. Both corn yield and soil N ₂ O emission showed near linear relationships with precipitation based on the long-term precipitation data, but with different response patters of corn yield and soil N ₂ O emission to precipitation manipulations. Corn yield showed a positive linear response to precipitation manipulations in the dry year, but no response to increases in precipitation in the normal year, and a trend of decrease in the wet year. The extreme drought treatments reduced corn yield sharply in both normal and wet years. In contrast, soil N ₂ O emission mostly responded linearly to precipitation manipulations. Decreases in precipitation in the dry year reduced more soil N ₂ O emission than those in the normal and wet years, while increases in precipitation increased more soil N ₂ O emission in the normal and wet years than in the dry year. Conclusions This study revealed different response patterns of corn yield and soil N ₂ O emission to precipitation and highlights that mitigation strategy for soil N ₂ O emission reduction should consider different background climate conditions.

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Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

OSTI ID:: 1968959

Journal Information:: Ecological Processes, Journal Name: Ecological Processes Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 12; ISSN 2192-1709

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Country of Publication:: Germany

Language:: English

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