Could bovine livestock intensification in Pantanal be neutral regarding enteric methane emissions?

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Autor(a) principal: BERGIER, I.
Data de Publicação: 2019
Outros Autores: SILVA, A. P. S., ABREU, U. G. P. de, OLIVEIRA, L. O. F. de, TOMAZI, M., DIAS, F. R. T., URBANETZ, C., NOGUEIRA, E., SILVA, J. C. B.
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da EMBRAPA (Repository Open Access to Scientific Information from EMBRAPA - Alice)
Texto Completo: http://www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br/alice/handle/doc/1112323
Resumo: Bovine livestock is a major anthropogenic greenhouse gas source via entericmethane. Brazilian bovine livestock is also responsible for emissions from land-use changes. In contrast, enteric emissions from extensive cattle systems in wetlands might have been overestimated.We provide scientific evidences that the human footprint of bovine products delivered by the Pantanal can be much lower. To assess this, a historical cloud-free imagery of the Landsat-5, spanning 26 years, were processed for mapping spatiotemporal landscapes in a Pantanal farm under cattle intensification studies. Eight landscape categories were identified according to spatiotemporal dynamics of interannual floods. The spatiotemporal map allowed in the field the adoption of stratified randomsamplings of chamber gas fluxes. The combination of stratified sampled landscapes with Monte Carlo simulations of measured methane emissions in wet and dry soils permitted to integrate landscapes emissions at annual basis with biased uncertainties. Assuming enteric emissions obtained for the Pantanal region, our results suggest that the landscapes methane emissions are 10- to 23-fold superior than the enteric emissions of traditional bovine systems. While enteric emissions seem negligible with respect to net farmland emissions, cattle livestock provide important environmental services like carbon recycling through non-competing herbivory. Moreover, cattlemight be making use of a biomass thatwould undergo decomposition during the flooding phase. Our analysis thus indicate that enteric emissions from traditional bovine systems in flooding farmlands could be considered neutral. By contrast, intensification to improve the stocking rate should be accounted as net anthropogenic emissions. A case study of intensification allowed an increase of 48% in the stocking rate,which is associatedwith net anthropogenic emissions from534 bovine animals or about 27 to 63Mg of enteric CH4 per year. In short, the competition between traditional and distinct levels of cattle intensification will result from a trade-off between public policies and strategic market niches (organic, sustainable) for the optimal landscape management of the Pantanal.
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spelling Could bovine livestock intensification in Pantanal be neutral regarding enteric methane emissions?Efeito EstufaMetanoPecuáriaMethaneBeef cattleLivestockGreenhouse gasesBovine livestock is a major anthropogenic greenhouse gas source via entericmethane. Brazilian bovine livestock is also responsible for emissions from land-use changes. In contrast, enteric emissions from extensive cattle systems in wetlands might have been overestimated.We provide scientific evidences that the human footprint of bovine products delivered by the Pantanal can be much lower. To assess this, a historical cloud-free imagery of the Landsat-5, spanning 26 years, were processed for mapping spatiotemporal landscapes in a Pantanal farm under cattle intensification studies. Eight landscape categories were identified according to spatiotemporal dynamics of interannual floods. The spatiotemporal map allowed in the field the adoption of stratified randomsamplings of chamber gas fluxes. The combination of stratified sampled landscapes with Monte Carlo simulations of measured methane emissions in wet and dry soils permitted to integrate landscapes emissions at annual basis with biased uncertainties. Assuming enteric emissions obtained for the Pantanal region, our results suggest that the landscapes methane emissions are 10- to 23-fold superior than the enteric emissions of traditional bovine systems. While enteric emissions seem negligible with respect to net farmland emissions, cattle livestock provide important environmental services like carbon recycling through non-competing herbivory. Moreover, cattlemight be making use of a biomass thatwould undergo decomposition during the flooding phase. Our analysis thus indicate that enteric emissions from traditional bovine systems in flooding farmlands could be considered neutral. By contrast, intensification to improve the stocking rate should be accounted as net anthropogenic emissions. A case study of intensification allowed an increase of 48% in the stocking rate,which is associatedwith net anthropogenic emissions from534 bovine animals or about 27 to 63Mg of enteric CH4 per year. In short, the competition between traditional and distinct levels of cattle intensification will result from a trade-off between public policies and strategic market niches (organic, sustainable) for the optimal landscape management of the Pantanal.IVAN BERGIER TAVARES DE LIMA, CPAP; URBANO GOMES PINTO DE ABREU, CPAP; LUIZ ORCIRIO FIALHO DE OLIVEIRA, CNPGC; MICHELY TOMAZI, CPAO; FERNANDO RODRIGUES TEIXEIRA DIAS, CPAP; CATIA URBANETZ, CPAP; ERIKLIS NOGUEIRA, CPAP; JULIANA CORREA BORGES SILVA, CPAP.BERGIER, I.SILVA, A. P. S.ABREU, U. G. P. deOLIVEIRA, L. O. F. deTOMAZI, M.DIAS, F. R. T.URBANETZ, C.NOGUEIRA, E.SILVA, J. C. B.2019-10-29T00:41:46Z2019-10-29T00:41:46Z2019-09-1920192019-11-14T11:11:11Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleScience of the Total Environment, v. 655, p. 463-472, 2019.http://www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br/alice/handle/doc/111232310.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.11.178enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Institucional da EMBRAPA (Repository Open Access to Scientific Information from EMBRAPA - Alice)instname:Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa)instacron:EMBRAPA2019-10-29T00:41:53Zoai:www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br:doc/1112323Repositório InstitucionalPUBhttps://www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br/oai/requestcg-riaa@embrapa.bropendoar:21542019-10-29T00:41:53Repositório Institucional da EMBRAPA (Repository Open Access to Scientific Information from EMBRAPA - Alice) - Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa)false
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Could bovine livestock intensification in Pantanal be neutral regarding enteric methane emissions?
title Could bovine livestock intensification in Pantanal be neutral regarding enteric methane emissions?
spellingShingle Could bovine livestock intensification in Pantanal be neutral regarding enteric methane emissions?
BERGIER, I.
Efeito Estufa
Metano
Pecuária
Methane
Beef cattle
Livestock
Greenhouse gases
title_short Could bovine livestock intensification in Pantanal be neutral regarding enteric methane emissions?
title_full Could bovine livestock intensification in Pantanal be neutral regarding enteric methane emissions?
title_fullStr Could bovine livestock intensification in Pantanal be neutral regarding enteric methane emissions?
title_full_unstemmed Could bovine livestock intensification in Pantanal be neutral regarding enteric methane emissions?
title_sort Could bovine livestock intensification in Pantanal be neutral regarding enteric methane emissions?
author BERGIER, I.
author_facet BERGIER, I.
SILVA, A. P. S.
ABREU, U. G. P. de
OLIVEIRA, L. O. F. de
TOMAZI, M.
DIAS, F. R. T.
URBANETZ, C.
NOGUEIRA, E.
SILVA, J. C. B.
author_role author
author2 SILVA, A. P. S.
ABREU, U. G. P. de
OLIVEIRA, L. O. F. de
TOMAZI, M.
DIAS, F. R. T.
URBANETZ, C.
NOGUEIRA, E.
SILVA, J. C. B.
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv IVAN BERGIER TAVARES DE LIMA, CPAP; URBANO GOMES PINTO DE ABREU, CPAP; LUIZ ORCIRIO FIALHO DE OLIVEIRA, CNPGC; MICHELY TOMAZI, CPAO; FERNANDO RODRIGUES TEIXEIRA DIAS, CPAP; CATIA URBANETZ, CPAP; ERIKLIS NOGUEIRA, CPAP; JULIANA CORREA BORGES SILVA, CPAP.
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv BERGIER, I.
SILVA, A. P. S.
ABREU, U. G. P. de
OLIVEIRA, L. O. F. de
TOMAZI, M.
DIAS, F. R. T.
URBANETZ, C.
NOGUEIRA, E.
SILVA, J. C. B.
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Efeito Estufa
Metano
Pecuária
Methane
Beef cattle
Livestock
Greenhouse gases
topic Efeito Estufa
Metano
Pecuária
Methane
Beef cattle
Livestock
Greenhouse gases
description Bovine livestock is a major anthropogenic greenhouse gas source via entericmethane. Brazilian bovine livestock is also responsible for emissions from land-use changes. In contrast, enteric emissions from extensive cattle systems in wetlands might have been overestimated.We provide scientific evidences that the human footprint of bovine products delivered by the Pantanal can be much lower. To assess this, a historical cloud-free imagery of the Landsat-5, spanning 26 years, were processed for mapping spatiotemporal landscapes in a Pantanal farm under cattle intensification studies. Eight landscape categories were identified according to spatiotemporal dynamics of interannual floods. The spatiotemporal map allowed in the field the adoption of stratified randomsamplings of chamber gas fluxes. The combination of stratified sampled landscapes with Monte Carlo simulations of measured methane emissions in wet and dry soils permitted to integrate landscapes emissions at annual basis with biased uncertainties. Assuming enteric emissions obtained for the Pantanal region, our results suggest that the landscapes methane emissions are 10- to 23-fold superior than the enteric emissions of traditional bovine systems. While enteric emissions seem negligible with respect to net farmland emissions, cattle livestock provide important environmental services like carbon recycling through non-competing herbivory. Moreover, cattlemight be making use of a biomass thatwould undergo decomposition during the flooding phase. Our analysis thus indicate that enteric emissions from traditional bovine systems in flooding farmlands could be considered neutral. By contrast, intensification to improve the stocking rate should be accounted as net anthropogenic emissions. A case study of intensification allowed an increase of 48% in the stocking rate,which is associatedwith net anthropogenic emissions from534 bovine animals or about 27 to 63Mg of enteric CH4 per year. In short, the competition between traditional and distinct levels of cattle intensification will result from a trade-off between public policies and strategic market niches (organic, sustainable) for the optimal landscape management of the Pantanal.
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