Contribution of Urine and Dung Patches from Grazing Sheep to Methane and Carbon Dioxide Fluxes in an Inner Mongolian Desert Grassland
The effects of sheep urine and dung patches on methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) fluxes were investigated during the summer-autumn in 2010, to evaluate their contribution to climate change in a desert grassland in Inner Mongolia, China. Results indicate that the cumulative CH4 emissions for dun...
Main Authors: | Yuanyuan Jiang, Shiming Tang, Chengjie Wang, Pei Zhou, Mario Tenuta, Guodong Han, Ding Huang |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Asian-Australasian Association of Animal Production Societies
2012-02-01
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Series: | Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences |
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Online Access: | http://www.ajas.info/upload/pdf/25-27.pdf |
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