nitrous oxide (n2o) has significant impact on global warming and leads to the depletion of ozone in the stratosphere. agricultural soil is regarded as a major source of n2o emissions. in recent years, greenhouse grown vegetables have rapidly developed in china. although excessive fertilizer application in greenhouse vegetable production can result in increased n2o emissions, research data on su...

Emissions of N2O from soils of the Southwestern US are thought to result from the activity of anaerobic denitrifying bacteria, but the seasonal dryness and sandy texture of these soils are more conducive to the activities of aerobic microbes. Here, we present incubations of semiarid soils with added compounds known to stimulate the N-cycling processes ammonification (proteins, oligopeptides, an...

In this paper, we present two years of seasonal nitric oxide (NO), ammonia (NH3), and nitrous oxide (N2O) trace gas fluxes measured in a recovering riparian zone with cattle excluded and adjacent riparian zone grazed by cattle. In the recovering riparian zone, average NO, NH3, and N2O fluxes were 5.8, 2.0, and 76.7 ng N m(-2) S(-1) (1.83, 0.63, and 24.19 kg N ha(-1) y(-1)), respectively. Fluxes...

Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a greenhouse gas produced during microbial transformation of soil N that has been implicated in global climate warming. Nitrous oxide efflux from N fertilized soils has been modeled using NO3 K content with a limited success, but predicting N2O production in non-fertilized soils has proven to be much more complex. The present study investigates the contribution of soil am...

To date, few studies are conducted to quantify the effects of reduced ammonium (NH4+) and oxidized nitrate (NO3-) on soil CH4 uptake and N2O emission in the subtropical forests. In this study, NH4Cl and NaNO3 fertilizers were applied at three rates: 0, 40 and 120 kg N ha(-1) yr(-1). Soil CH4 and N2O fluxes were determined twice a week using the static chamber technique and gas chromatography. S...

[1] We used the trace gas model DayCent to simulate emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O) from a urine-affected pasture in New Zealand. The data set for this site contained yearround daily emissions of nitrification-N2O (N2Onit) and denitrification-N2O (N2Oden), meteorological data, soil moisture, and at least weekly data on soil ammonium (NH4 ) and nitrate (NO3 ) content. Evapotranspiration, soil t...

Nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from grazing animal excreta are estimated to be responsible for 1.5 Tg of the total 6.7 Tg of anthropogenic N2O emissions. This study was conducted to determine the in situ effect of incorporating biochar, into soil, on N2O emissions from bovine urine patches and associated pasture uptake of N. The effects of biochar rate (0-30 t ha(-1)), following soil incorporati...

A highly sensitive denitrification bioassay was developed for detection of NO3- and NO2- in rhizosphere soil samples. Denitrifying Pseudomonas aeruginosa ON12 was grown anaerobically in citrate (30 mM) minimal medium with KClO3 (10 mM) and NaNO2 (3 mM), which gave cells capable of NO2- reduction to N2O but incapable of NO3- reduction to NO2-. Growth on citrate minimal medium further resulted in...

Little is known about seepage wetlands, located within agricultural landscapes, with respect to removing nitrate (NO3 ) from agricultural catchments, mainly through gaseous emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O) and dinitrogen (N2) via denitrification. These variables were quantified using a push–pull technique where we introduced a subsurface water plume spiked with N-enriched NO3 and 2 conservative...

Few studies have quantified the effects of different levels and forms of nitrogen (N) deposition on soil nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from temperate forest soils. A 5-year field experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of multiple forms and levels of N additions on soil N2O emissions, by using the static closed chamber method at Xi Mountain Experimental Forest Station in northern Ch...