Quantification of methane emitted by ruminants: A review of methods

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dc.creatorTedeschi, L.O.
dc.creatorAbdalla, A.L.
dc.creatorÁlvarez, C.
dc.creatorAnuga, S.W.
dc.creatorArango, Jacobo
dc.creatorBeauchemin, K.A.
dc.creatorBecquet, P.
dc.creatorBerndt, Alexandre
dc.creatorBurns, R.
dc.creatorCamillis, Camillo de
dc.creatorChará, J.
dc.creatorEchazarreta, J.M.
dc.creatorHassouna, M.
dc.creatorKenny, D.
dc.creatorMathot, M.
dc.creatorMauricio, Rogerio M.
dc.creatorMcClelland, S.C.
dc.creatorNiu, M.
dc.creatorOnyango, Alice A.
dc.creatorParajuli, R.
dc.creatorPereira, L.G.R.
dc.creatorPrado, Agustin del
dc.creatorTieri, Maria Paz
dc.creatorUwizeye, Aimable
dc.creatorKebreab, Ermias
dc.date2022-07-01
dc.date2022-06-15T07:42:25Z
dc.date2022-06-15T07:42:25Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T13:31:17Z
dc.descriptionThe contribution of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from ruminant production systems varies between countries and between regions within individual countries. The appropriate quantification of GHG emissions, specifically methane (CH4), has raised questions about the correct reporting of GHG inventories and, perhaps more importantly, how best to mitigate CH4 emissions. This review documents existing methods and methodologies to measure and estimate CH4 emissions from ruminant animals and the manure produced therein over various scales and conditions. Measurements of CH4 have frequently been conducted in research settings using classical methodologies developed for bioenergetic purposes, such as gas exchange techniques (respiration chambers, headboxes). While very precise, these techniques are limited to research settings as they are expensive, labor-intensive, and applicable only to a few animals. Head-stalls, such as the GreenFeed system, have been used to measure expired CH4 for individual animals housed alone or in groups in confinement or grazing. This technique requires frequent animal visitation over the diurnal measurement period and an adequate number of collection days. The tracer gas technique can be used to measure CH4 from individual animals housed outdoors, as there is a need to ensure low background concentrations. Micrometeorological techniques (e.g., open-path lasers) can measure CH4 emissions over larger areas and many animals, but limitations exist, including the need to measure over more extended periods. Measurement of CH4 emissions from manure depends on the type of storage, animal housing, CH4 concentration inside and outside the boundaries of the area of interest, and ventilation rate, which is likely the variable that contributes the greatest to measurement uncertainty. For large-scale areas, aircraft, drones, and satellites have been used in association with the tracer flux method, inverse modeling, imagery, and LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging), but research is lagging in validating these methods. Bottom-up approaches to estimating CH4 emissions rely on empirical or mechanistic modeling to quantify the contribution of individual sources (enteric and manure). In contrast, top-down approaches estimate the amount of CH4 in the atmosphere using spatial and temporal models to account for transportation from an emitter to an observation point. While these two estimation approaches rarely agree, they help identify knowledge gaps and research requirements in practice.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/119827
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/61987
dc.languageen
dc.publisherOxford University Press
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceTedeschi, L.O., Abdalla, A.L., Álvarez, C., Anuga, S.W., Arango, J., Beauchemin, K.A., Becquet, P., Berndt, A., Burns, R., De Camillis, C., Chará, J., Echazarreta, J.M., Hassouna, M., Kenny, D., Mathot, M., Mauricio, R.M., McClelland, S.C., Niu, M., Onyango, A.A., Parajuli, R., Pereira, L.G.R., Del Prado, A., Tieri, M.P., Uwizeye, A. and Kebreab, E. 2022. Quantification of methane emitted by ruminants: A review of methods. Journal of Animal Science 100(7): skac197.
dc.subjectanimal production
dc.subjectruminant feeding
dc.subjectgreenhouse gas emissions
dc.titleQuantification of methane emitted by ruminants: A review of methods
dc.typeJournal Article

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