{"title":"A 30% reduction in switchgrass rhizome reserves did not decrease biomass yield","authors":"Mauricio Tejera-Nieves, Berkley J. Walker","doi":"10.1111/gcbb.13094","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gcbb.13094","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A long-standing question in perennial grass breeding and physiology is whether yield improvement strategies could compromise winter survival. Since perennial grasses rely on stored carbohydrates for winter maintenance and spring regrowth, yield improvement strategies could reduce winter survival if they increase biomass and grain yields at the expense of carbon allocation to storage. Therefore, it is crucial to comprehend the dependence of regrowth on storage reserves. We experimentally depleted switchgrass (<i>Panicum virgatum</i> L.) rhizome reserves by storing rhizomes for 2 weeks at 5°C (control treatment) and 25°C (reserve-depleted treatment). During the storage period rhizome respiration was 5.3× higher at 25°C (0.010 μmol CO<sub>2</sub> g<sup>−1</sup> min<sup>−1</sup> at 5°C vs. 0.054 μmol CO<sub>2</sub> g<sup>−1</sup> min<sup>−1</sup> at 25°C; <i>p</i> < 0.0001) and the starch content was depleted by 30% by the end of storage. Surprisingly, reserve-depleted switchgrass had 60% larger leaf area (LA; LA<sub>control</sub> = 149 cm<sup>2</sup> pot<sup>−1</sup> vs. LA<sub>depleted</sub> = 239 cm<sup>2</sup> pot<sup>−1</sup>; <i>p</i> = 0.013) and produced ~40% more aboveground biomass than control plants (9.46 g pot<sup>−1</sup> vs. 6.63 g pot<sup>−1</sup>; <i>p</i> = 0.112). In addition, reserve-depleted switchgrass restored its rhizome starch reserves to pre-storage levels. Switchgrass showed a large plasticity among its source-sink components to buffer the imposed reserve depletion. It increased plant photosynthesis by increasing the photosynthetic leaf area while keeping photosynthesis constant on a leaf area basis and readjusted the timing and activity of sink organs. These results suggest that switchgrass, and potentially other perennial grasses, largely over-invest in storage reserves. Therefore, current breeding strategies in perennial grasses aimed to extend the aboveground growing season should not compromise crop persistence. Our study also has implications on long-term yield dynamics as it highlights sink limitations as potential driver of the yield decline commonly observed in perennial grasses 5+ years after cultivation.</p>","PeriodicalId":55126,"journal":{"name":"Global Change Biology Bioenergy","volume":"15 11","pages":"1329-1338"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gcbb.13094","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41581834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Catherine E. Buckland, David S. G. Thomas, Jonas Jägermeyr, Christoph Müller, J. Andrew C. Smith
{"title":"Drought-tolerant succulent plants as an alternative crop under future global warming scenarios in sub-Saharan Africa","authors":"Catherine E. Buckland, David S. G. Thomas, Jonas Jägermeyr, Christoph Müller, J. Andrew C. Smith","doi":"10.1111/gcbb.13095","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gcbb.13095","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Globally, we are facing an emerging climate crisis, with impacts to be notably felt in semiarid regions across the world. Cultivation of drought-adapted succulent plants has been suggested as a nature-based solution that could: (i) reduce land degradation, (ii) increase agricultural diversification and provide both economic and environmentally sustainable income through derived bioproducts and bioenergy, (iii) help mitigate atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> emissions and (iv) increase soil sequestration of CO<sub>2</sub>. Identifying where succulents can grow and thrive is an important prerequisite for the advent of a sustainable alternative ‘bioeconomy’. Here, we first explore the viability of succulent cultivation in Africa under future climate projections to 2100 using species distribution modelling to identify climatic parameters of greatest importance and regions of environmental suitability. Minimum temperatures and temperature variability are shown to be key controls in defining the theoretical distribution of three succulent species explored, and under both current and future SSP5 8.5 projections, the conditions required for the growth of at least one of the species are met in most parts of sub-Saharan Africa. These results are supplemented with an analysis of potentially <i>available</i> land for alternative succulent crop cultivation. In total, up to 1.5 billion ha could be considered ecophysiologically suitable and available for succulent cultivation due to projected declines in rangeland biomass and yields of traditional crops. These findings may serve to highlight new opportunities for farmers, governments and key stakeholders in the agriculture and energy sectors to invest in sustainable bioeconomic alternatives that deliver on environmental, social and economic goals.</p>","PeriodicalId":55126,"journal":{"name":"Global Change Biology Bioenergy","volume":"15 10","pages":"1287-1308"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gcbb.13095","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43145885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bioenergy crops, biodiversity and ecosystem services in temperate agricultural landscapes—A review of synergies and trade-offs","authors":"Josefin Winberg, Henrik G. Smith, Johan Ekroos","doi":"10.1111/gcbb.13092","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gcbb.13092","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Paris agreement on climate change requires rapid reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. One important mitigation strategy, at least in the intermediate future, is the substitution of fossil fuels with bioenergy. However, using agriculture- and forest-derived biomass for energy has sparked controversy regarding both the climate mitigation potential and conflicts with biodiversity conservation. The urgency of the climate crisis calls for using forests for carbon sequestration and storage rather than for bioenergy, making agricultural biomass an attractive alternative for fossil energy substitution. However, this calls for comprehensive assessments of its sustainability in terms of consequences for biodiversity and ecosystem services. In this review, we provide a first holistic overview of the impacts on ecosystems of land-use changes from bioenergy crop production in temperate climates, by synthesizing results on both biodiversity and ecosystem service impacts. We found that bioenergy-related land-use changes can have both positive and negative effects on ecosystems, with original land use, bioenergy crop type and scale of bioenergy production being important moderators of impacts. Despite the risk of opportunity cost for food production, perennial crop cultivation on arable land had the lowest occurrence of negative impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services. Growing biomass for bioenergy on surplus land has been suggested as a way to alleviate competition with food production and biodiversity conservation, but our results demonstrate that utilizing marginal or abandoned land for bioenergy crop production cannot fully resolve these trade-offs. Furthermore, there is a lack of empirical studies of the biodiversity value of marginal and abandoned land, limiting our understanding of the sustainability implications of biomass cultivation on surplus land. We argue that future research and policies for bioenergy production must explicitly consider biodiversity and ecosystem services in combination to avoid potential trade-offs between the two and to ensure sustainable bioenergy production.</p>","PeriodicalId":55126,"journal":{"name":"Global Change Biology Bioenergy","volume":"15 10","pages":"1204-1220"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gcbb.13092","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41538762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Characterizing and modeling hydrogen sulfide production in anaerobic digestion of livestock manure, agro-industrial wastes, and wastewater sludge","authors":"Sarah E. Daly, Ji-Qin Ni","doi":"10.1111/gcbb.13093","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gcbb.13093","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Hydrogen sulfide (H<sub>2</sub>S) is the most undesirable inorganic gas in biogas from anaerobic digestion (AD). However, H<sub>2</sub>S production in AD is complex and understanding of its processes is still limited. This study performed six controlled batch anaerobic co-digestion experiments to investigate H<sub>2</sub>S production. Materials were obtained from four field anaerobic digester systems and co-digestion feedstocks from agroindustry. An additional precipitation experiment was conducted to further examine H<sub>2</sub>S production dynamics. Digesters containing highly soluble, carbohydrate-based wastes had a high H<sub>2</sub>S final specific production (FSP) value. Additionally, the FSP values were negatively correlated with the initial Fe(II):S ratios in the digester liquid of the batch tests. The precipitation experiment indicated that iron sulfide precipitation was preferred in the presence of an anaerobic community. The H<sub>2</sub>S production as a time series was successfully modeled using a generalized additive model (<i>R</i><sup>2</sup> > 0.82). This study revealed that sulfate, phosphorus, and iron concentrations are important predictors and potential inhibitors of H<sub>2</sub>S production in AD. Further examination of real-time H<sub>2</sub>S modeling in AD is warranted.</p>","PeriodicalId":55126,"journal":{"name":"Global Change Biology Bioenergy","volume":"15 10","pages":"1273-1286"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gcbb.13093","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43856665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Heitor Cantarella, Jean Felipe Leal Silva, Luiz Augusto Horta Nogueira, Rubens Maciel Filho, Raffaella Rossetto, Tomas Ekbom, Glaucia Mendes Souza, Franziska Mueller-Langer
{"title":"Biofuel technologies: Lessons learned and pathways to decarbonization","authors":"Heitor Cantarella, Jean Felipe Leal Silva, Luiz Augusto Horta Nogueira, Rubens Maciel Filho, Raffaella Rossetto, Tomas Ekbom, Glaucia Mendes Souza, Franziska Mueller-Langer","doi":"10.1111/gcbb.13091","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gcbb.13091","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This Opinion highlights several successful cases of biofuel technologies recently described by the IEA Bioenergy Intertask Report on Lessons Learned. The report discussed the potential of biofuels to contribute to a significant market supply, thus replacing fossil fuels and mitigating global warming, and it underscores the challenges in expanding biofuel production and replicating successful models between countries and regions. Based on the lessons learned from conventional, established technologies, the authors analyzed policies, feedstocks, products, technologies, economics, environmental concerns, social aspects, scalability, and ease of implementation and replication in different countries or regions. There are blending mandates in place around the world to foster the use of biofuels. Dependence on the availability and price fluctuations of crop feedstocks may limit biofuel production in certain circumstances. Legal restrictions on using food crops as feedstocks present obstacles to scaling up production. Temporary constraints related to feedstock costs and availability, as evidenced by changes and postponements of biofuel blending mandates in various countries (particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic) also pose challenges. Technological hurdles exist for advanced biofuels that implicate premium pricing. Still, 2G ethanol from sugarcane meets very strict feedstock requirements with a carbon footprint so low that only electric vehicles charged in Norway could have life-cycle GHG emissions at the same level as a 2G ethanol-fueled combustion engine car. The authors evaluate whether and how much electrification could contribute to advance the decarbonization efforts in different countries. Drawing from these observations, the authors express their viewpoints to assist researchers and policymakers in the energy sector in formulating viable approaches to combat the climate crisis.</p>","PeriodicalId":55126,"journal":{"name":"Global Change Biology Bioenergy","volume":"15 10","pages":"1190-1203"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gcbb.13091","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41841125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heterogeneous diacylglycerol acyltransferase expression enhances lipids and PUFA in Chlorella species","authors":"Prachi Nawkarkar, Vikas U. Kapase, Sarika Chaudhary, Sachin Kajla, Shashi Kumar","doi":"10.1111/gcbb.13089","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gcbb.13089","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Algae have been explored for renewable energy, nutraceuticals, and value-added products. However, low lipid yield is a significant impediment to its commercial viability. Genetic engineering can improve the fatty acid profile of algae without compromising its growth. This study introduced the diacylglycerol acyltransferase (BnDGAT) gene from <i>Brassica napus</i> into <i>Chlorella sorokiniana</i>-I, a fast-growing and thermotolerant natural strain isolated from wastewater, which increased its intracellular lipid accumulation. Hygromycin-resistant cells were selected, and enhanced green florescence protein fluorescence was used to distinguish pure transgenic cell lines from mixed cultures. Compared to the wild type, BnDGAT expression in transgenic <i>C. sorokiniana</i>-I caused a threefold increase in non-polar lipid and a twofold increase in polyunsaturated fatty acids. Nile red staining reaffirmed the presence of higher intracellular lipid bodies in transgenic cells. There was a substantial alteration in the fatty acid profile of transgenic alga expressing BnDGAT. The non-essential omega 9 (C18: 1) fatty acid decreased (5%–7% from 18%), while alpha-linolenic acid, an essential omega 3 fatty acid (C18: 3), was increased (23%–24% from 11%). This study substantiates a valuable strategy for enhancing essential omega-3 fatty acids and neutral lipids to improve its nutritional value for animal feed. The increased lipid productivity should reduce the cost of producing fatty acid methyl esters (FAME). Improved FAME quality should address the clouding issues in cold regions.</p>","PeriodicalId":55126,"journal":{"name":"Global Change Biology Bioenergy","volume":"15 10","pages":"1240-1254"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gcbb.13089","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48404568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Soil amendment with biochar and manure alters wood stake decomposition and fungal community composition","authors":"Ruirui Zhao, Yong Liu, Michael J. Gundale","doi":"10.1111/gcbb.13087","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gcbb.13087","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Biochar and manure can be used for sustainable land management. However, little is known about how soil amendments might affect surface and belowground microbial processes and subsequent wood decomposition. In a split-split-split plot design, we amended soil with two rates of manure (whole plot; 0 and 9 Mg ha<sup>−1</sup>) and biochar (split plot; 0 and 10 Mg ha<sup>−1</sup>). Wood stakes of three species (hybrid poplar, triploid <i>Populus tomentosa</i> Carr.; aspen, <i>Populus tremuloides</i> Michx.; and pine, <i>Pinus taeda</i> L.) were placed in two positions (horizontally on the soil surface, and inserted vertically in the mineral soil), which served as a substrate for fungal growth. In 3 years, the decomposition rate (density loss), moisture content, and fungal community (via high-throughput sequencing methods) of stakes were evaluated. Results indicated that biochar and/or manure increased the wood stake decomposition rates, moisture content, and operational taxonomic unit abundance. However, the richness and diversity of fungi were dependent on wood stake position (surface > mineral), species (pine > the two <i>Populus</i>), and sample dates. This study highlights that soil amendment with biochar and/or manure can alter the fungal community, which in turn can enhance an important soil process (i.e., decomposition).</p>","PeriodicalId":55126,"journal":{"name":"Global Change Biology Bioenergy","volume":"15 9","pages":"1166-1185"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gcbb.13087","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46348937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lucas Moreau, Evelyne Thiffault, Werner A. Kurz, Robert Beauregard
{"title":"Under what circumstances can the forest sector contribute to 2050 climate change mitigation targets? A study from forest ecosystems to landfill methane emissions for the province of Quebec, Canada","authors":"Lucas Moreau, Evelyne Thiffault, Werner A. Kurz, Robert Beauregard","doi":"10.1111/gcbb.13081","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gcbb.13081","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Meeting climate change mitigation targets by 2050, as outlined in international pledges, involves determining optimal strategies for forest management, wood supply, the substitution of greenhouse gas-intensive materials and energy sources, and wood product disposal. Our study quantified the cumulative mitigation potential by 2050 of the forest sector in the province of Quebec, Canada, using several alternative strategies and assessed under what circumstances the sector could contribute to the targets. We used the Carbon Budget Model of the Canadian Forest Sector to project ecosystems emissions and sequestration of seven alternative and one baseline (business-as-usual [BaU]) forest management scenarios over the 2018–2050 period. Three baskets of wood products were used in a Harvested Wood Products model to predict wood product emissions. The mitigation potential was determined by comparing the cumulative CO<sub>2</sub>e budget of each alternative scenario to the BaU. The proportion of methane emissions from landfills (RCH<sub>4</sub>%) and the required displacement factor (RDF) to achieve mitigation benefits were assessed both independently and jointly. The fastest and most efficient way to improve mitigation outcomes of the forest sector of Quebec is to reduce end-of-life methane emissions from wood products. By reducing methane emissions, the RDF for achieving mitigation benefits through intensification strategies can be reduced from 1.2–2.3 to 0–0.9 tC/tC, thus reaching the current provincial mean DF threshold (0.9). Both a reduction and an increase in the harvested volume have the potential to provide mitigation benefits with adequate RCH<sub>4</sub>% and RDF. Increased carbon sequestration in ecosystems, innovations in long-lived wood products, and optimal substitution in markets offer potential avenues for the forest sector to contribute to mitigation benefits but are subject to significant uncertainties. Methane emission reduction at the end of wood product service life is emerging as a valuable approach to enhance mitigation benefits of the forest sector.</p>","PeriodicalId":55126,"journal":{"name":"Global Change Biology Bioenergy","volume":"15 9","pages":"1119-1139"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gcbb.13081","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49062978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Microbial community and network differently reshaped by crushed straw or biochar incorporation and associated with nitrogen fertilizer level","authors":"Tianshu Song, Junkai Wang, Xiyao Xu, Caixia Sun, Chen Sun, Zihao Chen, Yulan Zhang, Liying Hao","doi":"10.1111/gcbb.13090","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gcbb.13090","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Straw returning has been demonstrated as a beneficial approach for the utilization of renewable biomass source, which contributes to reducing environmental pollution and strengthening the sustainability of agriculture. However, information on how microorganisms respond to different straw return modes (SRMs) at varying nitrogen fertilizer levels (NFLs) in the black soil is still limited. The community composition, network pattern, and modular function of bacteria and fungi are investigated under three SRMs, including straw removal (CK), crushed straw incorporation (SD), and biochar incorporation (BC) at three NFLs (0, 144, and 240 kg N ha<sup>−1</sup>, respectively) mainly using Illumina MiSeq technique based on a long-term maize field experiment. Results showed that bacterial richness, diversity, and fungal richness decreased with NFL reduction. However, these decreases can be compensated by SD and BC, demonstrating superiority for BC at reduced NFLs. SD and BC differed in their effects on the bacterial and fungal abundances (showing increments only in SD) and fungal Shannon diversity (remaining stable only in BC irrespective of NFLs). Microbial communities were substantially affected by SRMs and interacted with NFLs, which were driven by soil NH<sub>4</sub><sup>+</sup>-N, available potassium, total nitrogen, and pH. In addition, SD induced a network characterized by its highly complex (average degree 10.259 vs. 3.364) and stable structure (average clustering coefficient 0.503 vs. 0.239), Ascomycota as predominating keystone taxa, and abundant N-cycling related bacteria, while BC formed a network comprising a superior modular structure (modularity 2.599 vs. 0.912), dominant symbiotic fungi, and soil bulk density as specific shaping factor, indicating that network pattern, keystone taxa, modular function, and determining factors shifted between SD and BC co-occurrence networks. These results deepen insights into the response divergence of bacteria and fungi to SRMs and NFLs, providing a scientific basis for selecting the suitable strategy for sustainable straw utilization in the black soil area.</p>","PeriodicalId":55126,"journal":{"name":"Global Change Biology Bioenergy","volume":"15 10","pages":"1255-1272"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gcbb.13090","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44591164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christian Stiegler, Franziska Koebsch, Ashehad Ashween Ali, Tania June, Edzo Veldkamp, Marife D. Corre, Joost Koks, Aiyen Tjoa, Alexander Knohl
{"title":"Temporal variation in nitrous oxide (N2O) fluxes from an oil palm plantation in Indonesia: An ecosystem-scale analysis","authors":"Christian Stiegler, Franziska Koebsch, Ashehad Ashween Ali, Tania June, Edzo Veldkamp, Marife D. Corre, Joost Koks, Aiyen Tjoa, Alexander Knohl","doi":"10.1111/gcbb.13088","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gcbb.13088","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The rapidly growing areal extent of oil palm (<i>Elaeis guineensis</i> Jacq.) plantations and their high fertilizer input raises concerns about their role as substantial N<sub>2</sub>O sources. In this study, we present the first eddy covariance (EC) measurements of ecosystem-scale N<sub>2</sub>O fluxes in an oil palm plantation and combine them with vented soil chamber measurements of point-scale soil N<sub>2</sub>O fluxes. Based on EC measurements during the period August 2017 to April 2019, the studied oil palm plantation in the tropical lowlands of Jambi Province (Sumatra, Indonesia) is a high source of N<sub>2</sub>O, with average emission of 0.32 ± 0.003 g N<sub>2</sub>O-N m<sup>−2</sup> year<sup>−1</sup> (149.85 ± 1.40 g CO<sub>2</sub>-equivalent m<sup>−2</sup> year<sup>−1</sup>). Compared to the EC-based N<sub>2</sub>O flux, average chamber-based soil N<sub>2</sub>O fluxes (0.16 ± 0.047 g N<sub>2</sub>O-N m<sup>−2</sup> year<sup>−1</sup>, 74.93 ± 23.41 g CO<sub>2</sub>-equivalent m<sup>−2</sup> year<sup>−1</sup>) are significantly (~49%, <i>p</i> < 0.05) lower, suggesting that important N<sub>2</sub>O pathways are not covered by the chamber measurements. Conventional chamber-based N<sub>2</sub>O emission estimates from oil palm up-scaled to ecosystem level might therefore be substantially underestimated. We show that the dynamic gas exchange of the oil palm canopy with the atmosphere and the oil palms' response to meteorological and soil conditions may play an important but yet widely unexplored role in the N<sub>2</sub>O budget of oil palm plantations. Diel pattern of N<sub>2</sub>O fluxes showed strong causal relationships with photosynthesis-related variables, i.e. latent heat flux, incoming photosynthetically active radiation and gross primary productivity during day time, and ecosystem respiration and soil temperature during night time. At longer time scales (>2 days), soil temperature and water-filled pore space gained importance on N<sub>2</sub>O flux variation. These results suggest a plant-mediated N<sub>2</sub>O transport, providing important input for modelling approaches and strategies to mitigate the negative impact of N<sub>2</sub>O emissions from oil palm cultivation through appropriate site selection and management.</p>","PeriodicalId":55126,"journal":{"name":"Global Change Biology Bioenergy","volume":"15 10","pages":"1221-1239"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gcbb.13088","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47143818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}