Effect of cover crops on greenhouse gas emissions in an irrigated field
under integrated soil fertility management

Guardia, Guillermo; Abalos, Diego; García-Marco, Sonia; Quemada, Miguel; Alonso-Ayuso, María; Cárdenas, Laura M.; Dixon, Elizabeth R.; Vallejo, Antonio

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-5245-2016

Articles | Volume 13, issue 18

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-5245-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-5245-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 18

Research article

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20 Sep 2016

Research article |

| 20 Sep 2016

Effect of cover crops on greenhouse gas emissions in an irrigated field under integrated soil fertility management

Guillermo Guardia, Diego Abalos, Sonia García-Marco, Miguel Quemada, María Alonso-Ayuso, Laura M. Cárdenas, Elizabeth R. Dixon, and Antonio Vallejo

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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AC1: 'Figures as Supplement bg-2016-29-manuscript-version2', guillermo guardia, 11 Apr 2016
RC1: 'Integrated soil fertility management drives the effect of cover crops on GHG emissions in an irrigated field by Guardia et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 13 Jun 2016
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer #1 comments', guillermo guardia, 06 Jul 2016
RC2: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 14 Jun 2016
- AC3: 'Response to Reviewer #2 comments', guillermo guardia, 06 Jul 2016
AC4: 'Response to Reviewers' comments', guillermo guardia, 06 Jul 2016

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (02 Aug 2016) by Edzo Veldkamp

AR by guillermo guardia on behalf of the Authors (14 Aug 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (29 Aug 2016) by Edzo Veldkamp

AR by guillermo guardia on behalf of the Authors (30 Aug 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (02 Sep 2016) by Edzo Veldkamp

Short summary

We carried out a field experiment to evaluate the effect of replacing traditional winter fallow with cover crops (CCs) on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Our results showed that the use of CCs should be recommended as a tool for reducing fertilizer nitrogen (N) input without increasing GHG losses – in the whole intercrop–maize cycle – or penalizing maize yields, if fertilizers are applied taking into account soil mineral N and N from CC residues.