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Fig. 1. Flux rate of CH4 from swine manure management systems differing in volatile solids loading rate as determined by the theoretical profile shape micrometeorological method and using the tunable diode laser method. (A) CH4 flux over a 30-h period from a swine manure lagoon (0.12 kg volatile solids d-1 m-3) and over a 25-h period for a swine manure basin (37 kg volatile solids d-1 m-3). The time period between CH4 measurements for sites was approximately 16 h and is indicated by the broken x axis. (B) One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) (t-test) for CH4 flux data and the Tukey–Kramer HSD means comparison table showing the absolute difference in the means minus the least significant difference (alpha level = 0.05)