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DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13644
论文题名:
Nonlinear response of nitric oxide fluxes to fertilizer inputs and the impacts of agricultural intensification on tropospheric ozone pollution in Kenya
作者: Hickman J.E.; Huang Y.; Wu S.; Diru W.; Groffman P.M.; Tully K.L.; Palm C.A.
刊名: Global Change Biology
ISSN: 13541013
出版年: 2017
卷: 23, 期:8
起始页码: 3193
结束页码: 3204
语种: 英语
英文关键词: African Green Revolution ; fertilizer ; greenhouse gas ; nitrogen ; soils ; tropical agriculture
Scopus关键词: Zea mays
英文摘要: Crop yields in sub-Saharan Africa remain stagnant at 1 ton ha−1, and 260 million people lack access to adequate food resources. Order-of-magnitude increases in fertilizer use are seen as a critical step in attaining food security. This increase represents an unprecedented input of nitrogen (N) to African ecosystems and will likely be accompanied by increased soil emissions of nitric oxide (NO). NO is a precursor to tropospheric ozone, an air pollutant and greenhouse gas. Emissions of NO from soils occur primarily during denitrification and nitrification, and N input rates are a key determinant of emission rates. We established experimental maize plots in western Kenya to allow us to quantify the response function relating NO flux to N input rate during the main 2011 and 2012 growing seasons. NO emissions followed a sigmoid response to fertilizer inputs and have emission factors under 1% for the roughly two-month measurement period in each year, although linear and step relationships could not be excluded in 2011. At fertilization rates above 100 kg N ha−1, NO emissions increased without a concomitant increase in yields. We used the geos-chem chemical transport model to evaluate local impacts of increased NO emissions on tropospheric ozone concentrations. Mean 4-hour afternoon tropospheric ozone concentrations in Western Kenya increased by up to roughly 2.63 ppbv under fertilization rates of 150 kg N ha−1 or higher. Using AOT40, a metric for assessing crop damage from ozone, we find that the increased ozone concentrations result in an increase in AOT40 exposure of approximately 110 ppbh for inputs of 150 kg N ha−1 during the March–April–May crop growing season, compared with unfertilized simulations, with negligible impacts on crop productivity. Our results suggest that it may be possible to manage Kenyan agricultural systems for high yields while avoiding substantial impacts on air quality. © 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd
资助项目: We would like to thank Louis Verchot and ICRAF-Kisumu for the use of equipment and laboratory space, and John Drummond for providing technical advice on LMA-3D maintenance. JEH and CAP acknowledge support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (grant # GATESBM OPP1023542-02). YH and SW acknowledge support from the U.S. EPA STAR Program (grant #83518901). JEH acknowledges support from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Climate Center.
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/60888
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Hickman J.E.,Huang Y.,Wu S.,et al. Nonlinear response of nitric oxide fluxes to fertilizer inputs and the impacts of agricultural intensification on tropospheric ozone pollution in Kenya[J]. Global Change Biology,2017-01-01,23(8)
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