Replication Data for: Effect of legume intercropping on N2O emissions and CH4 uptake during maize production in the Great Rift Valley, Ethiopia

The data report weekly measurements of soil nitrous oxide (N2O) emission and methane (CH4) uptake in the growing seasons 2015 and 2016 in a maize field experiment performed on the Hawassa University campus, Central Rift Valley, Ethiopia. The experiment was designed to test the effect of intercropping the forage legumes lablab (L. purpureus) and Crotalaria (C. juncea) into nitrogen (N) and phosphorous (P) fertilized maize 3 and 6 weeks after sowing of maize. The forage legumes were harvested at flowering and half of the biomass was returned to the same plots as mulch in the first season. In the second season, N fertilization was halved in mulched plots. Intercropping effects are evaluated against fully and non-fertilized maize treatments. The results are published in Raji SG and Dörsch P, Biogesciences, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-2019-303