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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2024, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (11): 68-77.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb2023-0425

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Effects of Adding Green Manure on N2O and CH4 Emissions from Farmland in China

LI Yapeng1(), ZHANG Chenyang1, SUN Nan2(), LI Ran2, LI Jianhua1, XU Minggang1,2()   

  1. 1 Shanxi Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Nutrient Resources/ Institute of Ecological and Environmental Technology, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan 030031
    2 State Key Laboratory of Efficient Utilization of Arid and Semi-arid Arable Land in Northern China/ Key Laboratory of Arable Land Quality Monitoring and Evaluation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs/Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081
  • Received:2023-06-02 Revised:2023-11-08 Online:2024-04-15 Published:2024-04-11

Abstract:

The study aims to investigate the effects of green manure addition on greenhouse gas (N2O and CH4) emissions in farmland soil in China, and to provide theoretical basis for scientific application of green manure, greenhouse gas emission reduction and crop yield increase. The data were analyzed by meta-analysis, and the data were collected from Chinese and English databases such as “China Knowledge Network”, “Google Scholar” and “Web of Science”. We searched the Chinese and English databases with the keywords of “green manure”, “farmland” and “greenhouse gas”, and 137 sets of effective data of the effects of green manure addition on greenhouse gas emissions of farmland soil were collected at home and abroad. The impact and its main influencing factors of green manure addition on greenhouse gas emissions of farmland soil in China were quantitatively analyzed. The results showed that the addition of green manure significantly promoted the emission of N2O, CH4 and the increase of GWP and GHGI by 16.1%, 45.8% and 25.7%, 12.9%, respectively, compared with no application of green manure. The application of leguminous and non-leguminous green manures significantly increased N2O and CH4 emissions and GWP, and the application of non-leguminous green manures had no significant effect on GHGI, while leguminous green manures significantly increased soil N2O emissions, GWP and GHGI compared with non-leguminous green manures. The N2O and CH4 emissions and GWP were significantly increased by different green manure application measures, among which the increase of N2O, CH4 and GWP under green manure combined with chemical fertilizer was significantly higher than that under other two measures, but green manure combined with chemical fertilizer significantly reduced GHGI (-5.5%). Compared to no green manure addition, green manure returning <5000 kg/hm2 had no significant effect on GHGI, and significantly enhanced N2O and CH4 emissions. The addition of green manure had no significant effect on GWP when the mean annual rainfall was <600 mm, and had no significant effect on GHGI when the mean annual rainfall was <1200 mm. As the mean annual temperature increased, the enhancement of GWP also increased; when the mean annual temperature <16℃, the addition of green manure had a significant reduction of GHGI, with a greater reduction when <12℃; N2O and CH4 emissions were significantly correlated with the effective nitrogen content of the soil. The addition of green manure significantly increased N2O emission and GWP under different land use types, and the increase under dry soil conditions was smaller than that in paddy soil, but significantly reduced GHGI under dry soils. In conclusion, the addition of non-leguminous green manure combined with fertilizer (< 5000 kg/hm2), especially in the dry land soil area with warm and humid climate (annual rainfall <1200 mm, average annual temperature <16℃), could have a good emission reduction effect. It could be concluded that the addition of non-leguminous green manure with chemical fertilizers (<5000 kg/hm2) returned to the field can have a very good effect on yield increase and emission reduction, especially in dryland soil areas with a warm and humid climate (annual rainfall <1200 mm and mean annual temperature <16℃).

Key words: green manure, farmland, GWP, GHGI, Meta-analysis