Comparison of Soil Respiration in Typical Conventional and New Alternative Cereal Cropping Systems on the North China Plain.docVIP

ComparisonofSoilRespirationinTypicalConventional andNewAlternativeCerealCroppingSystemsonthe NorthChinaPlain BingGao1,XiaotangJu1*,FangSu1,FengbinGao1,QingsenCao1,OeneOenema2,PeterChristie1, XinpingChen1,FusuoZhang1 1CollegeofResourcesandEnvironmentalSciences,ChinaAgriculturalUniversity,Beijing,China,2WageningenUniversityandResearchCenter,Alterra,Wageningen,The Netherlands Abstract Wemonitoredsoilrespiration(Rs),soiltemperature(T)andvolumetricwatercontent(VWC%)overfouryearsinonetypical conventionalandfouralternativecroppingsystemstounderstandRsindifferentcroppingsystemswiththeirrespective ma