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Journal of Environmental Protection, 2011, 2, 537-544 doi:10.4236/jep.2011.25062 Published Online July 2011 (/journal/jep) Dynamic Emission of CH from a Rice-Duck 4 Farming Ecosystem 1 2 1 1 Jia-En Zhang , Ying Ouyang , Zhao-Xiang Huang , Guo-Ming Quan 1Department of Ecology, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China; 2USDA Forest Service, Mississippi State, USA. Email: youyang@fs.fed.us, jeanzh@ Received March 7th, 2011; revised April 15th, 2011; accepted May 22nd, 2011. ABSTRACT Global climatic change induced by emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities is an issue of increasing in- ternational environmental concerns, and agricultural practices and managements are the important contributors for such emissions. This study investigated dynamic emission of methane (CH4) from a paddy field in a rice-duck farming ecosystem. Three different cultivation treatments, namely the organic fertilizer + duck (OF+D), chemical fertilizer + duck (CF + D), and chemical fertilizer (Control) treatments, were employed in this study. Experimental data showed 2 that hourly variations of CH4 emission from the paddy field during the day were somewhat positively correlated (R = 0.7 for the OF + D treatment and R2 = 0.6 for the CF+D treatment) to the hourly changes in air temperatures in addi- tion to the influences of the duck activities. The rate of CH4 emission for the CF+D treatment was higher than that of the Control treatment at the tillering stage, whereas the opposite was true at the heading stage. In contrary, the rate of CH4 emission for the OF + D treatment was always higher than that of the