Multimodel Evaluation of Nitrous Oxide Emissions From an Intensively Managed Grassland

Funding Information: We thank Charlotte Decock for kindly providing additional soil nitrate and ammonium data for the year 2013. This study was conducted under the Models4Pastures project within the framework of FACCE-JPI. Lutz Merbold and Kathrin Fuchs acknowledge funding for the Swiss contribution to Models4Pastures (FACCE-JPI project, SNSF funded contract: 40FA40_154245/1) and Kathrin Fuchs for the Doc.Mobility fellowship (SNSF funded project: P1EZP2_172121). Nina Buchmann acknowledges funding from GHG-Europe (FP7, EU contract 244122). The NZ coauthors acknowledge funding from the New Zealand Government Ministry of Primary Industries for supporting the Livestock Research Group of the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases and from AgResearch's Strategic Science Investment Fund (the Forages for Reduced Nitrate Leaching (FRNL) Research Programme). The UK contributors acknowledge funding by DEFRA and the RCUK projects: N-Circle (BB/N013484/1), UGRASS (NE/M016900/1), and GREENHOUSE (NE/K002589/1) and further funding from the Scottish Government Strategic Research Programme. Lorenzo Brilli and Marco Bindi received funding from the Italian Ministry of Agricultural Food and Forestry Policies (MiPAAF). The FR partners acknowledge funding from the French National Research Agency for the CN-MIP project (ANR-13-JFAC-0001) and ADEME (12-60-C0023). Susanne Rolinski acknowledges financial support from the project Climasteppe (BMBF under grant 01DJ18012). Acknowledgment is made to the APSIM Initiative, which takes responsibility for quality assurance and a structured innovation program for APSIM. APSIM is provided free for research and development use (see www.apsim.info for details).Peer reviewedPublisher PD