Carbon budget measurement over 12 years at a crop production site in the silty-loam region in Belgium

[en] Carbon dioxide (CO2) exchanges between crops and the atmosphere are influenced by both climatic and management drivers. In this study, a site at the Lonzée Terrestrial Observatory (candidate ICOS site) in Belgium that had been managed for more than 70 years using conventional farming practices, was monitored over three complete rotation cycles (sugar beet/winter wheat/seed potato/winter wheat) from 2004 to 2016. Continuous eddy-covariance measurements and regular biomass samplings were performed in order to obtain the daily and seasonal Net Ecosystem Exchange (NEE), Gross Primary Productivity (GPP), Total Ecosystem Respiration (TER), Net Primary Productivity (NPP) and Net Biome Production (NBP). Meteorological data and crop management practices were also recorded. Over the 12 crop seasons, total NEE varied both between and within crop types. Crop type influenced net carbon (C) sequestration, with the seed potato crop exhibiting the smallest C fluxes. Despite differences in CO2 assimilation response to weather variables and in cumulated TER/GPP dynamics, the sugar beet, winter wheat and maize crops had similar seasonal NEE values. The NEE inter-annual variability, both between and within crop types, was explained mainly by the length of the active vegetation period, as well as the cumulated photosynthetic photon flux density and average air temperature during this period. The establishment of the C budget over the 12 years of study showed that NEE was a downward (negative) flux (−4.40 ± 0.05 kg C m−2), but NBP was an upward (positive) flux (0.99 ± 0.22 kg C m−2). That is, as soon as C exportation at harvest and C importation (manure, slimes) were included in the budget, the site behaved as a C source. The intercrop periods contributed significantly to the total C budget, and the C fluxes generated during these periods were positively related to crop residue amount and temperature. The largest uncertainties about the crop C budget were those relating to biomass measurements. Carrying out a soil C inventory would help to validate the NBP-based estimate of soil C loss.

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Agriculture & agronomy

Author, co-author :

Buysse, Pauline

Bodson, Bernard ; Université de Liège > Agronomie, Bio-ingénierie et Chimie (AgroBioChem) > Ingénierie des productions végétales et valorisation

Debacq, Alain ; Université de Liège > Ingénierie des biosystèmes (Biose) > Biosystems Dynamics and Exchanges

De Ligne, Anne ; Université de Liège > Ingénierie des biosystèmes (Biose) > Biosystems Dynamics and Exchanges

Heinesch, Bernard ; Université de Liège > Ingénierie des biosystèmes (Biose) > Biosystems Dynamics and Exchanges

Manise, Tanguy ; Université de Liège > Agronomie, Bio-ingénierie et Chimie (AgroBioChem) > Ingénierie des productions végétales et valorisation

Moureaux, Christine ; Université de Liège > Ingénierie des biosystèmes (Biose) > Biosystems Dynamics and Exchanges

Aubinet, Marc ; Université de Liège > Ingénierie des biosystèmes (Biose) > Biosystems Dynamics and Exchanges

Language :

English

Title :

Carbon budget measurement over 12 years at a crop production site in the silty-loam region in Belgium

Publication date :

2017

Journal title :

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

ISSN :

0168-1923

eISSN :

1873-2240

Publisher :

Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Volume :

246

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