Livestock enclosures in drylands of Sub-Saharan Africa are overlooked hotspots of N2O emissions

Africa houses approximately one third of the global cattle, sheep and goat population. Here the authors show that manure accumulation in livestock enclosures can emit significant quantities of the greenhouse gas N2O for decades after abandonment, totaling 5% of continental anthropogenic N2O emission...

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Main Authors: Klaus Butterbach-Bahl, Gretchen Gettel, Ralf Kiese, Kathrin Fuchs, Christian Werner, Jaber Rahimi, Matti Barthel, Lutz Merbold
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18359-y