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Future Farm Systems: A stocktake of existing research
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Protocol for including Mitigation actions in Agricultural Lifecycle Assessment
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National Infrastructure Plan
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Inhibitors application time and pasture canopy capture regulate gaseous losses of urine-N
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Crystal Structures of Bacterial Pectin Methylesterases Pme8A and PmeC2 from Rumen Butyrivibrio
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Pharmacokinetics of bromoform in dairy heifers
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Contrasting response of comammox Nitrospira, ammonia oxidising bacteria, and archaea to soil pH and nitrogen inputs
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Substituting ryegrass-based pasture with graded levels of forage rape in the diet of lambs reduced post-feeding variation in methane emissions
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Large-scale analysis of sheep rumen metagenome profiles captured by reduced representation sequencing reveals individual profiles are influenced by the environment and genetics of the host
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Combining host and rumen metagenome profiling for selection in sheep: prediction of methane, feed efficiency, production, and health traits
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Associations of Grazing and Rumination Behaviours with Performance Parameters in Spring-Calving Dairy Cows in a Pasture-Based Grazing System
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Takahuri Whenua - the Changing Land a decision support framework for GHG emissions reductions and land diversification
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Reduction of Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Urine Patches from Grazed Dairy Pastures in New Zealand: A Preliminary Assessment of ORUN® as an Alternative to the Use of Nitrification Inhibitor Dicyandiamide (DCD)
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Complete genome sequence of Methanosphaera sp. ISO3-F5, a rumen methylotrophic methanogen
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Complete genome sequence of the rumen bacterium Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens D1T
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The crystal structure of methanogen McrD, a methyl-coenzyme M reductase-associated protein
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Effects of dairy farming management practices on carbon balances in New Zealand’s grazed grasslands: Synthesis from 68 site-years
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Paddock-scale carbon and greenhouse gas budgets in the first year following the renewal of an intensively grazed perennial pasture
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Progress in the development of vaccines against rumen methanogens
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CELEBRATING THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE PASTORAL GREENHOUSE GAS RESEARCH CONSORTIUM 2003–2021
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Reducing methane emissions in sheep by immunization against rumen methanogens
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Greenhouse gas emissions from New Zealand agriculture: issues, perspectives and industry response
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Cross-reactivity of antibodies to different rumen methanogens demonstrated using immunomagnetic capture technology
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Mapping immunogenic epitopes of an adhesin-like protein from Methanobrevibacter ruminantium M1 and comparison of empirical data with in silico prediction methods
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Development of a vaccine to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture: Vaccination of sheep with methanogen fractions induces antibodies that block methane production in vitro
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Summary reports: Disruptive diverse land use change options for the ruminant pastoral agriculture – analysis of wheat, chestnut, blueberries, hemp and tōtara
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Disruptive diverse land use change options for the ruminant pastoral agriculture – analysis of wheat, chestnut, blueberries, hemp and tōtara
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The Potential Use Of Bromoform As A Methane Mitigating Technology In Aotearoa New Zealand Farm Systems
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How livestock affect the carbon cycle
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The persistence and efficacy of nitrification inhibitors to mitigate nitrous oxide emissions from New Zealand pasture soils amended with urine
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A comparison of the threshold concentrations of DCD, DMPP and nitrapyrin to reduce urinary nitrogen nitrification rates on pasture soils – a laboratory study
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Farm-Level Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of In-Paddock Feeding of Methane Inhibitors in Pasture-Based Dairy
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Mitigation potential and trade-offs for nitrous oxide emissions and carbon balances of irrigated mixed-species and ryegrass-clover pastures
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Structural characterisation of methanogen pseudomurein cell wall peptide ligases homologous to bacterial MurE/F murein peptide ligases
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The carbon balance of a temperate grazed pasture following periodic maize silage cropping depends on climate and management
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Insight into the physiology of Quinella, an iconic uncultured rumen bacterium
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Evaluation of Feed Near-infrared Reflectance Spectra as Pre-dictors of Methane Emissions from Ruminants
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Forage type affects the temporal methane emission profiles in dairy cows fed fresh forages
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Simulating the number of spot-samples required to estimate the methane to carbon dioxide ratio in lambs and its relationship with methane yield
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Alternative Uses for Existing Crops: An Analysis of Potential Markets and Infrastructure and Supply Requirements in New Zealand
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Futures for New Zealand’s arable and horticultural industries in relation to their land area, productivity, profitability, greenhouse gas emissions and mitigations
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A review of plant options for mitigating nitrous oxide emissions from pasture-based systems
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Can we have our steak and eat it: impact on production, yield and meat quality in sheep bred for lowered environmental impact
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Genetic parameters for residual feed intake, methane emissions and body composition in New Zealand maternal sheep
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Archaeal pseudomurein and bacterial murein cell wall biosynthesis share a common evolutionary ancestry
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Spring pasture renewal involving full inversion tillage and a summer crop can facilitate soil C storage, improve crop yields and lower N leaching
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Effect of feeding fresh forage plantain (Plantago lanceolata) or ryegrass-based pasture on methane emissions, total-tract digestibility, and rumen fermentation of non-lactating dairy cows
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Substituting ryegrass-based pasture with graded levels of forage rape in the diet of lambs decreases methane emissions and increases propionate, succinate, and primary alcohols in the rumen
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Accelerating the development of biological nitrification inhibition as a viable nitrous oxide mitigation strategy in grazed livestock systems
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Low-cost sample preservation methods for high-throughput processing of rumen microbiomes
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Hydrogen and formate production and utilisation in the rumen and the human colon
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Electron flow: key to mitigating ruminant methanogenesis
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A comparison of three nitrate leaching mitigation treatments with dicyandiamide using lysimeters
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Wetting and drainage cycles in two New Zealand soil types: Effects on relative gas diffusivity and N2O emissions
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Nitrous oxide emission factors in conventionally and naturally simulated cattle urine patches
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Full inversion tillage during pasture renewal to increase soil carbon storage: New Zealand as a case study
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Full Inversion Tillage as a potential future management strategy for enhanced carbon sequestration in Irish grassland soils
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Using genome comparisons of wild-type and resistant mutants of Methanococcus maripaludis to help understand mechanisms of resistance to methane inhibitors
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Sequestration of soil carbon by burying it deeper within the profile: A theoretical exploration of three possible mechanisms
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Mapping immunogenic epitopes of an adhesin-like protein from Methanobrevibacter ruminantium M1 and comparison of empirical data with in silico prediction methods
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Methane emissions in growing heifers while eating from a feed bin compared with 24-hour emissions and relationship with feeding behavior
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NZAGRC Highlights 2022
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Research Stocktake 2021
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Takahuri Whenua: Approaches to Systems and Land Use Change to Reduce GHG Emissions
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NZAGRC 2022-2025 Māori Research Strategy
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Greenhouse gas emissions on New Zealand farms: a companion guide to the climate change seminars for rural professionals
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NZAGRC Highlights 2021
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Multivariate analysis of GHG emissions from NZ sheep and beef farms
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Farm systems modelling for GHG reduction on Māori-owned farms: achieving the Zero Carbon targets
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Herd-level versus animal-level variation in methane emission prediction in grazing dairy cattle
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Nitrous oxide emissions from cow urine patches in an intensively managed grassland: influence of nitrogen loading under contrasting soil moisture
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Evaluation of proximal sensing technologies for mapping bovine urine patches in grazing pastures
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Ammonia mitigation effects from the cow housing and manure storage chain on the nitrogen and carbon footprints of a typical dairy farm system on the North China Plain
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Importance of resilient pastures for New Zealand’s agricultural soil carbon stocks
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Challenges and opportunities to capture dietary effects in on-farm greenhouse gas emissions models of ruminant systems
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Elevating soil pH does not reduce N2O emissions from urine deposited onto pastoral soils
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Ammonia and nitrous oxide emission factors for excreta deposited by livestock and land-applied manure
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Irrigation Scheduling with Soil Gas Diffusivity as a Decision Tool to Mitigate N2O Emissions from a Urine-Affected Pasture
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Could patterns of animal behaviour cause the observed differences in soil carbon between adjacent irrigated and unirrigated pastures?
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Improved gap filling approach and uncertainty estimation for eddy covariance N2O fluxes
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DATAMAN: A global database of nitrous oxide and ammonia emission factors for excreta deposited by livestock and land-applied manure
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Soil type, bulk density and drainage effects on relative gas diffusivity and N2O emissions
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Complete Genome Sequence of the Polysaccharide-Degrading Rumen Bacterium Pseudobutyrivibrio xylanivorans MA3014 Reveals an Incomplete Glycolytic Pathway
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Global Research Alliance N2O chamber methodology guidelines: Statistical considerations, emission factor calculation, and data reporting
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Use of Lactic Acid Bacteria to reduce methane production in ruminants, a critical review
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Large differences in CO2 emissions from two dairy farms on a drained peatland driven by contrasting respiration rates during seasonal dry conditions
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The proportion of deposited urine patch intercepted by a delayed inhibitor application
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Lifetime Climate Impacts of Diet Transitions: A Novel Climate Change Accounting Perspective
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Efficacy of aucubin as a nitrification inhibitor assessed in two Canterbury field trials
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Genetic parameters of methane emissions determined using portable accumulation chambers in lambs and ewes grazing pasture and genetic correlations with emissions determined in respiration chambers
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Review of evidence for the potential role of biochar to reduce net GHG emissions from New Zealand agriculture
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The complete genome sequence of the rumen methanogen Methanobacterium formicicum BRM9
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NZAGRC Report BERG on farm options
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NZAGRC Report BERG future options
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Mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from New Zealand pasture-based farm systems
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Farms systems modelling for GHG reduction on multiple enterprise Māori farms
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The effects of irrigation on carbon balance in an irrigated grazed pasture system in New Zealand
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BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Greenhouse gas emissions from New Zealand sheep and beef farm systems
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Carbon footprint of two unique farms, compared with industry averages
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Management practices to reduce losses or increase soil carbon stocks in temperate grazed grasslands: New Zealand as a case study
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Carbon budget of an intensively grazed temperate grassland with large quantities of imported supplemental feed
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Quantifying carbon losses from periodic maize silage cropping of permanent temperate pastures
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Effect of plantain on nitrous oxide emissions, soil nitrification rate and abundance of ammonia oxidisers in a stony free-draining soil under a simulated urine patch during late autumn/winter in Canterbury, New Zealand
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Ammonia-oxidizing bacteria dynamic affected by plantain under cattle urine patches
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Modelling 3D urine patch spread in grazed pasture soils to determine potential inhibitor effectiveness
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Vaccination of cattle with a methanogen protein produces specific antibodies in the saliva which are stable in the rumen
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Vaccination of Sheep with a Methanogen Protein Provides Insight into Levels of Antibody in Saliva Needed to Target Ruminal Methanogens
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Development of multi-well plate methods using pure cultures of methanogens to identify new inhibitors for suppressing ruminant methane emissions
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Forage brassica: a feed to mitigate enteric methane emissions?
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NZAGRC Factsheet Low Greenhouse Gas Feeds
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A review of greenhouse gas emissions from the use of brassica and fodder beet forages on New Zealand farms
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Feeding diets with fodder beet decreased methane emissions from dry and lactating dairy cows in grazing systems
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Animal board invited review: genetic possibilities to reduce enteric methane emissions from ruminants
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A Restriction Enzyme Reduced Representation Sequencing pipeline for low-cost, high-throughput metagenome profiling
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Individual level correlations of rumen volatile fatty acids and enteric methane emissions in genetically low and high methane yield sheep fed fresh pasture in repeated periods
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Development of an in situ procedure to evaluate the reticulo-rumen morphology of sheep selected for divergent methane emissions
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The complete genome sequence of the rumen methanogen Methanobrevibacter millerae SM9
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The potential of using alternative pastures, forage crops and gibberellic acid to mitigate nitrous oxide emissions
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Methane yield phenotypes linked to differential gene expression in the sheep rumen microbiome
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Effect of soil aggregate size and DCD on N2O emissions and ammonia oxidiser abundance in a grazed pasture soil
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Effect of soil moisture status and a nitrification inhibitor, dicyandiamide, on ammonia oxidizer and denitrifier growth and nitrous oxide emissions in a grassland soil
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Ammonia oxidising populations and relationships with N2O emissions in three New Zealand soils
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The effect of nitrogen concentration in synthetic cattle urine on nitrous oxide emissions
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Allocation of new growth between shoot, root and mycorrhiza in relation to carbon, nitrogen and phosphate supply: teleonomy with maximum growth rate
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Detailed carbon chemistry in charcoals from pre-European Maori gardens of New Zealand as a tool for understanding biochar stability in soils
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Determination of carbonate-C in biochars
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Fate of biochar in chemically and physically defined soil organic carbon pools
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CO2 emissions following cultivation of a temperate permanent pasture
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Estimating the organic carbon stabilisation capacity and saturation deficit of soils: A New Zealand case study
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Molecular characteristics of permanganate- and dichromate-oxidation-resistant soil organic matter from a black-C-rich colluvial soil
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The action of an anecic earthworm (Aporrectodea longa) on vertical soil carbon distribution in New Zealand pastures several decades after their introduction
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Rumen microbial (meta)genomics and its application to ruminant production
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The Complete Genome Sequence of Methanobrevibacter sp. AbM4
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Effect of seven years of application of a nitification inhibitor, disyandiamide (DCD) on soil microbial biomass, protease and deaminase activites and the abundance of bacteria and archaea in grazed pasture soils
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Comparison of APSIM and DNDC to simulate nitrogen transformations and N2O emissions
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Plant growth - resource or strategy limited - insights from responses to gibberellin
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Denitrification and N2O:N2 production in temperate grasslands: processes, measurements, modelling and mitigating negative impacts
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Carbon dioxide and climate impulse response functions for the computation of greenhouse gas metrics: a multi-model analysis
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Impact of greenhouse gas metrics on the quantification of agricultural emissions and farm-scale mitigation strategies - a New Zealand case study
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Emissions of nitrous oxide from the leaves of grasses
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Implications of alternative metrics for global mitigation costs and greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture
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Predicting C aromaticity of biochars based on their elemental composition
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Soil carbon dynamics- the effects of nitrogen input, intake demand and off-take by animals
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Soil carbon storage in particle-size fractions under seasonally-irrigated, grazed pasture
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Heritability estimates of methane emissions from sheep
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Effects of feed intake on enteric methane emissions from sheep fed fresh white clover (Trifolium repens) and perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) forages
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Can we improve interpolation of N2O emission measurements by using environmental factors?
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Effect of high-sugar grasses on methane emissions simulated using a dynamic model
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Effects of trampling of a wet dairy pasture soil on soil porosity and on mitigation of nitrous oxide emissions by a nitrification inhibitor, dicyandiamide
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Estimating nitrous oxide emissions from a dairy farm using a mechanistic, whole farm model and segregated emission factors for New Zealand
