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Ekoloji, no.77, pp.59-64, 2010 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus, TRDizin)
Global warming and greenhouse gas emission are one of the important researches in recent years. There are a wide range of greenhouse gas resources and one of them is agricultural activities. During agricultural activities CO2 emission from soil occurs. Water requirement in plant production is met by using various irrigation methods. The most widely used methods are drip irrigation, sprinkler irrigation and surface irrigation. Drip irrigation in recent years has been preferred due to its less water use. This study was carried out to determine soil CO2 emission in apple orchard of Jersey Mac apple cultivars grafted on M9 which was irrigated by drip irrigation, sprinkler irrigation and surface irrigation methods. In the study, soil CO2 flux was measured after irrigation. CO2 flux of drip, sprinkler and surface irrigation was 0.065, 0.071 and 0.084 g.CO2.m-2.h-1, respectively. Evaporation from the soil was 8.06, 8.85 and 8.95 g.H2O.m-2.h-1 for drip, sprinkler and surface irrigation, respectively. Even though there were no significant differences among irrigation methods in terms of CO2 flux and evaporation value (P>0.05), these results indicated that CO2 emission and evaporation values in drip irrigation method tended to decrease.