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. 2011 Oct 14;4(6):700–709. doi: 10.1111/j.1751-7915.2010.00236.x

Table 1.

Nitrous oxide emission from manure composting process.

Animal Process type Unit Reference
Dairy 0.582 g‐N2O per kg DM Pattey et al. (2005)
Beef 0.162 g‐N2O per kg DM
Pig Forced aeration 1.9–71.9 g‐N2O‐N per m3 Osada and Fukumoto (2001)
Cattle static 1.1 kg‐N per Mg manure Hao et al. (2001)
Cattle turned 1.9 kg‐N per Mg manure
Cattle Woodchip 0.39 %N Hao et al. (2004)
Cattle Straw 0.68 %N
Dairy static 1.2 %N El Kader et al. (2007)
Dairy turned 1.9 %N
Turkey 0.2–0.4 %N
Pig turned 3.7–4.6 %N Fukumoto et al. (2003)
Pig turned 2.5 %N Szanto et al. (2007)
Pig static 9.9 %N