Inventory of Spatio-Temporal Methane Emissions from Livestock and Poultry Farming in Beijing
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Site
2.2. Data Collection
2.3. Estimation of CH4 Emission
2.4. Data Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Spatio-Temporal Distribution and Stock of Livestock and Poultry Farming
3.2. Temporal Pattern of CH4 Emission from Livestock and Poultry Farming
3.3. Spatial Pattern of CH4 Emission from Livestock and Poultry Farming
4. Discussion
4.1. Temporal CH4 Emission of Livestock and Poultry Farming
4.2. Spatial CH4 Emission of Livestock and Poultry Farming
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Livestock and Poultry Type | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | Coefficient of Variation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Meat cattle | 30 | 23 | 26 | 26 | 36 | 0.16 |
Dairy cattle | 257 | 221 | 235 | 228 | 227 | 0.05 |
Pigs | 638 | 556 | 551 | 608 | 664 | 0.07 |
Meat chickens | 187 | 155 | 118 | 116 | 107 | 0.22 |
Laying hens | 171 | 135 | 142 | 152 | 151 | 0.08 |
Total | 1283 | 1090 | 1072 | 1130 | 1185 | 0.16 |
Livestock and Poultry Type | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Meat cattle | 6.8 × 104 | 5.8 × 104 | 6.2 × 104 | 4.9 × 104 | 4.1 × 104 |
Dairy cattle | 1.2 × 105 | 8.4 × 104 | 9.9 × 104 | 1.0 × 105 | 1.1 × 105 |
Pigs | 3.8 × 106 | 3.3 × 106 | 3.3 × 106 | 3.6 × 106 | 3.8 × 106 |
Meat chickens | 3.1 × 108 | 2.3 × 108 | 2.2 × 108 | 1.9 × 108 | 1.7 × 108 |
Laying hens | 8.8 × 106 | 8.3 × 106 | 8.6 × 106 | 1.2 × 107 | 1.4 × 107 |
Livestock and Poultry Type | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Meat cattle | 3684 | 3117 | 3337 | 2662 | 2195 |
Dairy cattle | 10435 | 7544 | 8953 | 9306 | 9519 |
Pigs | 8034 | 6941 | 6955 | 7568 | 8151 |
Meat chickens | 3103 | 2300 | 2159 | 1935 | 1652 |
Laying hens | 88 | 69 | 86 | 121 | 140 |
District | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | CH4 Emissions per Area During 2010–2014 (t km−2) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Shunyi | 6564 | 4070 | 4294 | 4065 | 5104 | 4.73 |
Daxing | 4145 | 2974 | 3618 | 3721 | 3290 | 3.44 |
Tongzhou | 2514 | 2712 | 3691 | 3281 | 2850 | 3.32 |
Yanqing | 2784 | 2462 | 2760 | 2269 | 2253 | 1.26 |
Fangshan | 1612 | 1832 | 2096 | 2376 | 2063 | 1.00 |
Huairou | 2245 | 1499 | 1513 | 1845 | 1786 | 0.84 |
Pinggu | 1395 | 1584 | 1021 | 1365 | 1453 | 1.27 |
Miyun | 2425 | 1079 | 963 | 974 | 1047 | 0.58 |
Changping | 1126 | 904 | 842 | 962 | 1157 | 0.74 |
Mentougou | 3 | 347 | 270 | 289 | 228 | 0.16 |
Haidian | 242 | 200 | 166 | 232 | 265 | 0.51 |
Chaoyang | 220 | 257 | 208 | 214 | 160 | 0.45 |
Fengtai | 69 | 64 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0.12 |
Total | 25,344 | 19,984 | 21,491 | 21,593 | 21,656 | 1.34 |
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Guo, Y.; Wang, Y.; Chen, S.; Zheng, S.; Guo, C.; Xue, D.; Kuzyakov, Y.; Wang, Z.-L. Inventory of Spatio-Temporal Methane Emissions from Livestock and Poultry Farming in Beijing. Sustainability 2019, 11, 3858. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11143858
Guo Y, Wang Y, Chen S, Zheng S, Guo C, Xue D, Kuzyakov Y, Wang Z-L. Inventory of Spatio-Temporal Methane Emissions from Livestock and Poultry Farming in Beijing. Sustainability. 2019; 11(14):3858. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11143858
Chicago/Turabian StyleGuo, Yixuan, Yidong Wang, Shufeng Chen, Shunan Zheng, Changcheng Guo, Dongmei Xue, Yakov Kuzyakov, and Zhong-Liang Wang. 2019. "Inventory of Spatio-Temporal Methane Emissions from Livestock and Poultry Farming in Beijing" Sustainability 11, no. 14: 3858. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11143858