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Evaporation And Carbon Dioxide Exchange By Sugar Cane Crops, G Bryant, Travis A. Naylor, Stephen R. Wilson, O T Denmead, David W. Griffith, B.C.T. Macdonald, I. White
Evaporation And Carbon Dioxide Exchange By Sugar Cane Crops, G Bryant, Travis A. Naylor, Stephen R. Wilson, O T Denmead, David W. Griffith, B.C.T. Macdonald, I. White
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RECENT developments in water and carbon trading and biofuel production highlight the need to document the water and carbon balances of Australia’s cropping systems including sugarcane. This paper presents the results of studies of evaporation and CO2 exchange throughout the growing seasons of two sugarcane crops, a 1st ratoon crop at Murwillumbah where burnt-cane was practised and a 5th ratoon crop at Mackay where trash blanketing was employed. At both locations, a micrometeorological eddy covariance technique was employed to measure water vapour and CO2 exchange between crop and atmosphere and manual and automatic chambers to measure CO2 emission from the …