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