Ammonia, methane and nitrous oxide emissions from furrow irrigated cotton crops from two nitrogen fertilisers and application methods

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Funding Acknowledgements

This is a sub-project of the More Profit from Nitrogen Research Program, funded by the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment as part of its Rural R&D for Profit program and the Cotton Research and Development Corporation. Institutional co-funding from The University of Melbourne, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and New South Wales Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI) is also gratefully acknowledged. We also thank Peter Glennie, Richard Ross, and Vicki Ross for their support during the field measurements. We also thank staff from NSW DPI at Narrabri and Tamworth for their help to modify the retro reflector support and for processing and analysis of field samples. Special thanks to Dr Trevor Coates, Dr Chunxiang Zhang, and the intern student James Zhou for their help during the experiment, and Dr. Thomas Flesch and Dr. Raphael Trouve for valuable comments on processing the data. We also acknowledge the pioneering trace gas flux work of Dr Tom Denmead. We acknowledge two reviewers and the editor for their valuable comments.