Greenhouse mitigation strategies for agronomic and grazing lands of the US Southern Great Plains
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Greenhouse mitigation strategies for agronomic and grazing lands of the US Southern Great Plains Hardeep Singh 1 & Brian K. Northup 2 & Gurjinder S. Baath 1 & Prashanth P. Gowda 3 & Vijaya G. Kakani 1 Received: 24 July 2019 / Accepted: 13 September 2019/ # Springer Nature B.V. 2019
Abstract
Challenges to sustainable agriculture are increasing with forecasts for greater climate variability, including rising temperatures, extreme precipitation events, and prolonged droughts. One important factor that contributes to the increasing climate variability is greenhouse gas emissions, including from agro-ecosystems. The US Environment Protection Agency indicates soil management and enteric fermentation from livestock contribute ~ 80% of total greenhouse gas from agriculture sector. Management practices conducive to greenhouse gas emissions, and possible mitigation strategies for the agricultural systems of Southern Great Plains, an integral part of the US beef industry, have not been thoroughly defined. The objective of this paper is to review and synthesize the literature regarding management practices conducive to emissions [carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrous oxide (N2O), and methane (CH4)] from croplands and grazing lands of Southern Great Plains, and potential strategies that may aid in greenhouse gas mitigation in the region. The results from different published studies evaluating such strategies were analyzed to determine whether these practices have potential in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from agronomic and grazing lands. Based on the analysis, it can be recommended that increasing the amount of cropland managed by conservation tillage, fertilizer management, crop rotation systems, grazing management, and fertilizer amendments can be potential management strategies for greenhouse gas mitigation. As agroecosystems are very complex and reducing emissions using strategies in one sector may stimulate higher emissions in other sectors, these strategies require testing at the systemslevel before they can be implemented to advise applied policies for the Southern Great Plains region. Keywords Carbon dioxide . Nitrous oxide . Summer fallow . Fertilizer . Cover crops . Nitrification inhibitors
* Hardeep Singh [email protected] Extended author information available on the last page of the article
Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change
1 Background Emission of greenhouse gasses (GHGs) from human sources is a global phenomenon related to a wide range of activities. Included are activities related to industrial production, transportation and movement of goods and people, and the production of foods for humans and animals (Fissore et al. 2010; Conant et al. 2011). Fluxes in GHGs as part of the soil-plantanimal-human interface are not uniform across the planet, and emissions in one region into the atmosphere have a global interface. The concentration of GHGs in the atmosphere has increased over the past centuries, has been correlated to an array of human activities (reference), and has also been co
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