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SUBMITTER: Chirinda N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6351538 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chirinda Ngonidzashe N Loaiza Sandra S Arenas Laura L Ruiz Verónica V Faverín Claudia C Alvarez Carolina C Savian Jean Víctor JV Belfon Renaldo R Zuniga Karen K Morales-Rincon Luis Alberto LA Trujillo Catalina C Arango Miguel M Rao Idupulapati I Arango Jacobo J Peters Michael M Barahona Rolando R Costa Ciniro C Rosenstock Todd S TS Richards Meryl M Martinez-Baron Deissy D Cardenas Laura L
Scientific reports 20190129 1
A decline in pasture productivity is often associated with a reduction in vegetative cover. We hypothesize that nitrogen (N) in urine deposited by grazing cattle on degraded pastures, with low vegetative cover, is highly susceptible to losses. Here, we quantified the magnitude of urine-based nitrous oxide (N<sub>2</sub>O) lost from soil under paired degraded (low vegetative cover) and non-degraded (adequate vegetative cover) pastures across five countries of the Latin America and the Caribbean ( ...[more]