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Atmospheric Pollutants and Trace Gases

Dairy Farm Effluent Effects on Urine Patch Nitrous Oxide and Carbon Dioxide Emissions

^a Soil, Plant and Ecological Sciences Division, PO Box 84, Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand
^b Landcare Research, PO Box 69, Lincoln Canterbury, New Zealand

^* Corresponding author (clought{at}lincoln.ac.nz)

Received for publication September 21, 2004. Dairy farm effluent (DFE) comprises animal feces, urine, and wash-down water collected at the milking shed. This is collected daily during the milking season and sprayed onto grazed dairy pastures. Urine patches in grazed pastures make a significant contribution to anthropogenic N₂O emissions. The DFE could potentially mitigate N₂O emissions by influencing the N₂O to dinitrogen (N₂) ratio, since it contains water-soluble carbon (WSC). Alternatively, DFE may enhance N₂O emissions from urine patches. The application of DFE may also provide a substrate for the production of CO₂ in pasture soils. The effects of DFE on the CO₂ and N₂O emissions from urine patches are unknown. Thus a laboratory experiment was performed where repeated DFE applications were made to repacked soil cores. Dairy farm effluent was applied at 0, 7, or 14 d after urine deposition. The urine was applied once on Day 0. Urine contained ¹⁵N-enriched urea. Measurements of N₂O, N₂, and carbon dioxide (CO₂) fluxes, soil pH, and soil inorganic N concentrations were made. After 43 d the DFE had not mitigated N₂O fluxes from urine patches. A small increase in the N₂O flux occurred from the urine-treated soils where DFE was applied 1 wk after urine deposition. The amount of WSC applied in the DFE proved to be insignificant compared with the amount of soil C released as CO₂ following urine application. The priming of soil C in urine patches has implications for the understanding of soil C processes in grazed pasture ecosystems and the budgeting of C within these ecosystems.

Abbreviations: DFE, dairy farm effluent • WFPS, water-filled pore space • WSC, water-soluble carbon