Table 2: Summary of the treatment (i.e., bare soil and with plants) effect on season-long methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and several global warming potential (GWP) parameters over the course of the 2019 growing season from furrow-irrigated rice under no-tillage management on a silt-loam soil in east-central Arkansas. Global warming potentials were evaluated using CH4 and N2O conversion factors from both the 5th (IPCC, 2014) and 6th (IPCC, 2021) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessments.
|
Greenhouse Gas Parameter |
P-value |
Treatment |
Overall Mean |
|
|
Bare Soil |
With Plants |
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|
CH4 (kg ha-1 season-1) |
0.01 |
4.1 b† |
13.2 a |
- |
|
N2O (kg ha-1 season-1) |
0.18 |
10.9 |
6.0 |
8.4 |
|
CO2 (kg ha-1 season-1) |
< 0.01 |
3,625 b |
17,728 a |
- |
|
GWP 5th (CH4 + N2O; kg CO2 eq. ha-1 season-1) |
0.24 |
3,391 |
2,228 |
2,810 |
|
GWP 5th (CH4 + N2O + CO2; kg CO2 eq. ha-1 season-1) |
< 0.01 |
7,016 b |
19,957 a |
- |
|
GWP 6th (CH4 + N2O; kg CO2 eq. ha-1 season-1) |
0.23 |
3,006 |
1,952 |
2,479 |
|
GWP 6th (CH4 + N2O + CO2; kg CO2 eq. ha-1 season-1) |
< 0.01 |
6,631 b |
19,681 a |
- |
†Means in a row with different letters are different at P < 0.05