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									<p>While increasing SOC through GC leys can improve soil health and mitigate climate change, it may also elevate N<sub>2</sub>O emissions due to greater carbon and nitrogen availability.</p>
<p>Meng Kong integrated field measurements, laboratory experiments, and biogeochemical modeling to examine how measurement methods, GC proportions, management practices, and environmental factors affect the estimation of N<sub>2</sub>O emissions.</p>
<p>The new findings contribute to the development of climate-smart crop rotations and support the use of process-based modeling to predict the balance between carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas emissions in temperate agroecosystems.</p>
<p>The PhD study was completed at the Department of Agroecology, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Aarhus University.</p>
<p>This summary was prepared by the PhD student.<br><br><strong>Time:</strong> Wednesday, 28 January 2026 at 12:00<br><strong>Place:</strong> Auditorium, Aarhus University, Blichers Allé 20, 8830 Tjele<br><strong>Title of PhD thesis:</strong> Nitrous Oxide Emissions in Relation to Carbon Sequestration in Mixed Grass–Clover Arable Crop Rotations<br><strong>Contact information:</strong> Meng Kong, e-mail: mk@agro.au.dk, tel.: +45 93508942<br><strong>Members of the assessment committee:</strong><br>Professor Per Lennart Ambus, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, Copenhagen University, Denmark<br>Professor Peter Dörsch, Soil and Water Science Section, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway<br>Senior Researcher Anne Grete Kongsted (chair), Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Denmark<br><strong>Main supervisor:</strong><br>Professor, Jørgen Eriksen, Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Denmark<br><strong>Co-supervisor:</strong><br>Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Christian Dold, Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Denmark<br><strong>Language:</strong> The PhD dissertation will be defended in English<br><br>The defence is public.<br>The PhD thesis is available for reading at the Graduate School of Technical Sciences/GSTS, Ny Munkegade 120, building 1521, 8000 Aarhus C.</p>
								
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