Effectiveness of a subsurface drainage system in poorly drained paddy fields on reduction of methane emissions(<Special Section>Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Agroecosystems in Monsoon Asia)

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Intensive field experiments were conducted from 1999 to 2001 to examine the effects of farmland improvement on methane (CH_4) emission from two rice paddy fields in Niigata, Japan. Rice cultivation and field management were similar in both paddy fields ; however, one field had a subsurface drainage system installed 0.6-0.8 m below the soil surface (drained paddy field) and the other had no such system (nondrained paddy field). Methane emissions from the drained paddy field during each rice-growing season were approximately 71% lower than those from the non-drained paddy field. The subsurface drainage system lowered the groundwater level and top of the gley soil layer to the drainage pipe level, enhanced soil permeability, and resulted in more oxidized soil conditions in the fallow season. The lower total and hot water extractable carbon in the plowed layer soil of the drained field versus the non-drained field strongly suggests that the organic substrate that gives rise to CH_4 decomposed more quickly in the drained field. Ferrous iron concentrations in the fresh plowed layer soil, collected from before submergence up to mid-summer drainage, were also much lower in the drained field. This indicated that ferrous iron produced during the flooding seasons was quickly oxidized to ferric iron in the fallow season, which then acted as an electron accepter and inhibited CH_4 production in the subsequent rice-growing season. In contrast, the continuous reductive conditions in the non-drained field (even in the fallow season) prevented most of the ferrous iron from being oxidized. Therefore, installing a subsurface drainage system greatly reduced CH_4 emissions by improving aerobic conditions and reducing CH_4 production potential. Methane emissions with a large inter-annual variation in the rice-growing season from the non-drained field were positively correlated with soil moisture in the plowed layer before submergence, which, in turn, greatly affected CH_4 emission in the following rice-growing season.
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Effectiveness of a subsurface drainage system in poorly drained paddy fields on reduction of methane emissions(<Special Section>Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Agroecosystems in Monsoon Asia)

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