The influence of soluble carbon and fertilizer nitrogen on nitric oxide and nitrous oxide emissions from two contrasting agricultural soils

Sanchez-Martin, Laura; Vallejo, Antonio; Dick, Jan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4180-9338; Skiba, Ute M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8659-6092. 2008 The influence of soluble carbon and fertilizer nitrogen on nitric oxide and nitrous oxide emissions from two contrasting agricultural soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 40. 142-151. 10.1016/j.soilbio.2007.07.016

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Abstract/Summary

Contradictory effects of simultaneous available organic C and N sources on nitrous oxide (N2O), carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitric oxide (NO) fluxes are reported in the literature. In order to clarify this controversy, laboratory experiments were conduced on two different soils, a semiarid arable soil from Spain (soil I, pH=7.5, 0.8%C) and a grassland soil from Scotland (soil II, pH=5.5, 4.1%C). Soils were incubated at two different moisture contents, at a water filled pore space (WFPS) of 90% and 40%. Ammonium sulphate, added at rates equivalent to 200 and 50 kg N ha−1, stimulated N2O and NO emissions in both soils. Under wet conditions (90% WFPS), at high and low rates of N additions, cumulative N2O emissions increased by 250.7 and 8.1 ng N2O–N g−1 in comparison to the control, respectively, in soil I and by 472.2 and 2.1 ng N2O–N g−1, respectively, in soil II. NO emissions only significantly increased in soil I at the high N application rate with and without glucose addition and at both 40% and 90% WFPS. In both soils additions of glucose together with the high N application rate (200 kg N ha−1) reduced cumulative N2O and NO emissions by 94% and 55% in soil I, and by 46% and 66% in soil II, respectively. These differences can be explained by differences in soil properties, including pH, soil mineral N and total and dissolved organic carbon content. It is speculated that nitrifier denitrification was the main source of NO and N2O in the C-poor Spanish soil, and coupled nitrification–denitrification in the C-rich Scottish soil.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1016/j.soilbio.2007.07.016
Programmes:	CEH Programmes pre-2009 publications > Biogeochemistry > BG01 Measuring and modelling trace gas, aerosol and carbon > BG01.3 Nitroeurope NEU advanced flux network, fluxes pools and budgets
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:	Watt Billett (to November 2013)
ISSN:	0038-0717
Additional Keywords:	nitrous oxide, nitric oxide, soil respiration, mineral N, glucose, soil moisture, mitigation
NORA Subject Terms:	Agriculture and Soil Science Biology and Microbiology
Date made live:	04 Apr 2008 14:13 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/2498

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