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Reducing N 2 O and NO emissions while sustaining crop productivity in a Chinese vegetable-cereal double cropping system.
Environmental Pollution 2017 December
High nitrogen (N) inputs in Chinese vegetable and cereal productions played key roles in increasing crop yields. However, emissions of the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N2 O) and atmospheric pollutant nitric oxide (NO) increased too. For lowering the environmental costs of crop production, it is essential to optimize N strategies to maintain high crop productivity, while reducing the associated N losses. We performed a 2 year-round field study regarding the effect of different combinations of poultry manure and chemical N fertilizers on crop yields, N use efficiency (NUE) and N2 O and NO fluxes from a Welsh onion-winter wheat system in the North China Plain. Annual N2 O and NO emissions averaged 1.14-3.82 kg N ha-1 yr-1 (or 5.54-13.06 g N kg-1 N uptake) and 0.57-1.87 kg N ha-1 yr-1 (or 2.78-6.38 g N kg-1 N uptake) over all treatments, respectively. Both N2 O and NO emissions increased linearly with increasing total N inputs, and the mean annual direct emission factors (EFd ) were 0.39% for N2 O and 0.19% for NO. Interestingly, the EFd for chemical N fertilizers (N2 O: 0.42-0.48%; NO: 0.07-0.11%) was significantly lower than for manure N (N2 O: 1.35%; NO: 0.76%). Besides, a negative power relationship between yield-scaled N2 O, NO or N2 O + NO emissions and NUE was observed, suggesting that improving NUE in crop production is crucial for increasing crop yields while decreasing nitrogenous gas release. Compared to the current farmers' fertilization rate, alternative practices with reduced chemical N fertilizers increased NUE and decreased annual N2 O + NO emissions substantially, while crop yields remained unaffected. As a result, annual yield-scaled N2 O + NO emissions were reduced by > 20%. Our study shows that a reduction of current application rates of chemical N fertilizers by 30-50% does not affect crop productivity, while at the same time N2 O and NO emissions would be reduced significantly.
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