Field experiment data investigating nitrate leaching and nitrogen uptake in rainfed lowland rice under the Sudano-Guinean climate of Benin. The dataset covers nine sheets including weather data, crop growth, soil water content, water flux, infiltration, hydraulic conductivity, piezometer data, nitrate leaching, and rice yield. Data were collected by Gbedourorou, Sabi Kidirou during the 2023 and 2024 cropping seasons.
Use Cases
- Evaluate nitrogen use efficiency based on mineral fertilizer rate, biochar amendment, and fertilizer placement method.
- Model water dynamics in lowland rice systems based on soil water content, water flux, and piezometer data.
- Assess the potential of biochar amendment to reduce nitrogen losses based on nitrate leaching data.
- Analyze the relationship between crop growth, measured by leaf area index, and final rice yield and nitrogen uptake.
Strengths
- Data is organized into nine distinct thematic sheets covering weather, crop growth, soil, water, and yield.
- The experiment assessed three combined factors: fertilizer rate, biochar amendment, and fertilizer application method.
- Data collection spans two cropping seasons, 2023 and 2024.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
Provenance
- Source
- Gbedourorou, Sabi Kidirou
- Collection Method
- Field experiment data collected from rainfed lowland rice plots.
- Time Range
- 2023 and 2024 cropping seasons
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-21 03:22:52; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Sudano-Guinean zone, Benin, West Africa