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    Adaptive Multi-Paddock (AMP) Grazed Soils Have A Lower Greenhouse Gas Emissions Potential Than Conventionally Grazed Soils

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    Adaptive multi-paddock (AMP) grazing systems have lower greenhouse gas emissions potential than conventionally grazed soils. In a laboratory incubation experiment, soils from AMP grazing systems emitted less carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide at higher temperatures, and consumed more methane than soils from conventionally grazed systems. While fluxes of carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide did not differ by grazing treatment, methane flux and overall greenhouse gas emissions were affected by the interaction of grazing treatment and temperature. AMP grazing systems may help mitigate the impacts of rising soil temperatures on greenhouse gas levels by emitting and producing less of these gases.

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    Adaptive multi-paddock (AMP) grazing systems have lower greenhouse gas emissions potential than conventionally grazed soils. In a laboratory incubation experiment, soils from AMP grazing systems emitted less carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide at higher temperatures, and consumed more methane than soils from conventionally grazed systems. While fluxes of carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide did not differ by grazing treatment, methane flux and overall greenhouse gas emissions were affected by the interaction of grazing treatment and temperature. AMP grazing systems may help mitigate the impacts of rising soil temperatures on greenhouse gas levels by emitting and producing less of these gases.

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    Summary of GHG emissions from grazing land soils of Alberta, Canada

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    Adaptive multi-paddock (AMP) grazing systems have lower greenhouse gas emissions potential than conventionally grazed soils. In a laboratory incubation experiment, soils from AMP grazing systems emitted less carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide at higher temperatures, and consumed more methane than soils from conventionally grazed systems. While fluxes of carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide did not differ by grazing treatment, methane flux and overall greenhouse gas emissions were affected by the interaction of grazing treatment and temperature. AMP grazing systems may help mitigate the impacts of rising soil temperatures on greenhouse gas levels by emitting and producing less of these gases.

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    Adaptive Multi-Paddock (AMP) Grazed Soils Have a Lower Greenhouse

    Gas Emissions Potential than Conventionally Grazed Soils


    Bharat Shrestha1, Edward Bork2, Cameron Carlyle2, Timm Döbert3, Scott Chang1*, Dauren Kaliaskar1 & Mark Boyce3
    1
    Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E3, Canada
    2
    Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2P5, Canada
    3
    Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, Canada

    *Corresponding author – [email protected]

    Key words: carbon sink; GHG flux; grazing system; incubation study; temperature; soil moisture

    Introduction

    Fluxes of greenhouse gases (GHG) in grassland


    soils are of particular interest in the context of
    climate change, and its social and policy
    implications [1]. However, emission or uptake of
    GHGs in grassland soils is dependent on grazing
    management [2,3]. Adaptive multi-paddock (AMP)
    grazing systems are characterized by high grazing
    pressure on small paddocks, for a relatively short
    period of time, combined with long recovery
    periods between successive grazing events, to
    facilitate vegetation recovery [4]. However their
    effects on fluxes of GHGs are rarely studied. In this
    Figure 1. Locations of study ranches. Each point
    study, we compared fluxes of three main GHGs represents a pair of ranches, one under AMP and the other
    namely, carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and under Non-AMP grazing management.
    nitrous oxide (N2O), from AMP grazed soils with
    those of conventionally (Non-AMP) grazed soils a. b.
    and tested their sensitivity to varying temperature
    and moisture levels in a laboratory incubation.

    Materials and Methods

    We collected soil from 11 pairs of AMP and c. d.


    Non-AMP ranches across a climatic gradient in
    Alberta, Canada. Soils, free of coarse fragments and
    roots, were incubated at field capacity (FC), 40% of
    FC (0.4FC), or permanent wilting point (PWP), for
    102 days, at either 5º or 25ºC, and the flux of CO2,
    N2O, and CH4 measured at frequent intervals for a
    total of 102 days. Figure 2. Saturated soils on a ceramic plate (a), pressed
    soils to determine their permanent wilting point, and field
    capacity (b), soils in Mason jars in an incubator (c), and
    mouth-closed Mason jars before sampling the GHGs (d).
    1
    Results by emitting less CO2 and N2O, as well as increasing
    CH4 consumption, relative to Non-AMP grazing
    systems.

    Further work

    The role of soil temperature and moisture in carbon


    mineralization can vary between field conditions
    and that in a controlled environment [5]. In the real
    ground condition, many biotic and abiotic factors
    are at play simultaneously in nutrient and carbon
    cycling thus, it is imperative to evaluate GHG
    emissions from ranches under both types of grazing
    management to confirm our results from the
    Figure 3. Effects of grazing, and temperature on total fluxes
    of GHGs (mean ± SE) in a 102-day incubation experiment laboratory-based incubation study. We have
    with soils from adaptive multi-paddock (AMP) and completed the measurement of GHG emissions in
    conventional (Non-AMP) grazing treatments. (a) CO2-C, (b) the field for three consecutive growing seasons from
    N2O-N, (c) CH4-C, and (d) Net GHG (CO2-e) flux. Negative 2017 to 2019. Analysis of the field data and
    values show consumption of CH4 in the soil. Uppercase
    letters indicate significant differences between temperature preparation of the report are ongoing.
    levels at P ≤ 0.05. The CO2 flux and net GHG flux was lower
    in Non-AMP soils than the AMP soils at 5ºC but it was References
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    increased soil moisture levels in the order of PWP <


    0.4FC < FC. Acknowledgements

    Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada provided the funding


    Conclusions
    for this research through its Agricultural Greenhouse
    Our study indicates that AMP grazing systems Gases (AGGP) program.
    have the potential to provide some buffer against the
    impacts of increasing soil temperatures on GHGs,

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