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Alongside nitrate, dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) represents a significant N loss pathway in many agroecosystems. To better understand the factors controlling DON leaching in soil we followed the vertical movement of 15N-labeled NO3−, NH4+, alanine and trialanine in packed soil columns in response to a simulated rainfall event. We show that in autoclaved (sterile) soil where sorption is assumed to be the dominant regulating factor, leaching followed the series NO3− > trialanine > alanine > NH4+. In the non-sterile packed soil columns, the rapid rate of NO3− leaching was unaffected whilst the movement of the amino acid, peptide and NH4+ was almost completely prevented due to microbial immobilization. Our results support the view that (1) DON loss from agricultural soils occurs mainly in the form of recalcitrant compounds (e.g. humic DON) rather than in the form of labile low MW DON (e.g. oligopeptides and amino acids), and (2) that although nitrate was bioavailable, it was not a preferred N form for the C-limited microbial biomass.  相似文献   

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Dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) represents a significant pool of soluble N in many soils and freshwaters. Further, the low molecular weight (LMW) component of DON represents an important source of N for microorganisms and can also be utilized directly by some plants. Our purpose was to determine which of the pathways in the decomposition and subsequent ammonification and nitrification of organic N represented a significant block in soil N supply in three agricultural grassland soils. The results indicate that the conversion of insoluble organic N to LMW-DON and not LMW-DON to NH4+ or NH4+ to NO3− represents a major constraint to N supply. We hypothesize that there are two distinct DON pools in soil. The first pool comprises mainly free amino acids and proteins and is turned over very rapidly by the microbial community, so it does not accumulate in soil. The second pool is a high molecular weight pool rich in humic substances, which turns over slowly and represents the major DON loss to freshwaters. The results also suggest that in NO3− rich soils the uptake of LMW-DON by soil microorganisms may primarily provide them with C to fuel respiration, rather than to satisfy their internal N demand.  相似文献   

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Nitrite dynamics could be highly associated with forest N cycles. However, they have often been overlooked mainly because of the experimental difficulties that occur owing to chemical reactive nature of NO2−. We investigated NO2− dynamics in an N-saturated forest soil with a recently developed method using 15N. Soils were aerobically incubated for 145 h after 15NO2− addition, and changes in 14N and 15N concentrations of NO2−, NO3−, NH4+, and dissolved organic N (DON) were monitored. Simultaneous production and consumption of NO2− were observed. The turnover rate of NO2− was even faster than that of NH4+ and NO3− calculated in other studies. Of the added 15NO2−, 28.5% was oxidized to NO3− and 17.8% was incorporated into the DON pool within 4 h. The remainder might be emitted as gas or fixed by insoluble soil organic matter. Our results suggested that rapid NO2− turnover could be a major driving force for N transformations in forest soil.  相似文献   

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To improve our knowledge of how nutrient cycling in Mediterranean environments responds to climate change, we evaluated the effects of the continuous changes in soil nitrogen (N) pools during natural wetting and drying events. We measured soil N pools (microbial biomass [MB-N], dissolved organic nitrogen [DON], NH4+ and NO3−) and N ion exchange resins at weekly intervals for one year in two contrasting Mediterranean ecosystems. All soil N fractions in both ecosystems showed high intraseasonal and interseasonal variability that was greater in inorganic soil fractions than in organic N soil fractions. MB-N, DON and resin-NH4+ showed increased concentrations during wetting events. Only the soil NO3− and resin-NO3− showed the opposite trend, suggesting a different response to water pulses compared to the other soil variables. Our results show that N pools are continuously changing, and that this high variability is not associated with the total amount of organic matter and labile soil carbon (C) and N soil fractions found in each ecosystem. The highest variability was found for inorganic N forms, which suggests that organic N forms are more buffered in soils exposed to wetting-drying cycles. Our results suggest that the changes in wetting-drying cycles expected with global climate change may have a significant impact on the availability and turnover of organic and inorganic N.  相似文献   

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Agricultural systems that receive high amounts of inorganic nitrogen (N) fertilizer in the form of either ammonium (NH4+), nitrate (NO3−) or a combination thereof are expected to differ in soil N transformation rates and fates of NH4+ and NO3−. Using 15N tracer techniques this study examines how crop plants and soil microbes vary in their ability to take up and compete for fertilizer N on a short time scale (hours to days). Single plants of barley (Hordeum vulgare L. cv. Morex) were grown on two agricultural soils in microcosms which received either NH4+, NO3− or NH4NO3. Within each fertilizer treatment traces of 15NH4+ and 15NO3− were added separately. During 8 days of fertilization the fate of fertilizer 15N into plants, microbial biomass and inorganic soil N pools as well as changes in gross N transformation rates were investigated. One week after fertilization 45-80% of initially applied 15N was recovered in crop plants compared to only 1-10% in soil microbes, proving that plants were the strongest competitors for fertilizer N. In terms of N uptake soil microbes out-competed plants only during the first 4 h of N application independent of soil and fertilizer N form. Within one day microbial N uptake declined substantially, probably due to carbon limitation. In both soils, plants and soil microbes took up more NO3− than NH4+ independent of initially applied N form. Surprisingly, no inhibitory effect of NH4+ on the uptake and assimilation of nitrate in both, plants and microbes, was observed, probably because fast nitrification rates led to a swift depletion of the ammonium pool. Compared to plant and microbial NH4+ uptake rates, gross nitrification rates were 3-75-fold higher, indicating that nitrifiers were the strongest competitors for NH4+ in both soils. The rapid conversion of NH4+ to NO3− and preferential use of NO3− by soil microbes suggest that in agricultural systems with high inorganic N fertilizer inputs the soil microbial community could adapt to high concentrations of NO3− and shift towards enhanced reliance on NO3− for their N supply.  相似文献   

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Indirect evidence of the nitrogen (N) status of tropical forests strongly suggests that in heavily weathered soils under old-growth lowland tropical forests nitrogen is in relative excess. However, within the lowland forests of the Amazon basin, there is substantial evidence that soil texture influences soil NH4+ and NO3? concentrations and hence possibly N availability and retention in the soil. Here, we evaluate the soil N status of two heavily weathered soils which contrast in texture (sandy versus clay Oxisol). Using 15N pool dilution, we quantified gross rates of soil N cycling and retention. We also measured the δ15N signatures from the litter layer down to 50-cm depth mineral soil and calculated the overall 15N enrichment factor (ε) for each soil type. The clay soil showed high gross N mineralization and nitrification rates and a high overall 15N enrichment factor, signifying high N losses. The sandy soil had low gross rates of N cycling and 15N enrichment factor, manifesting a conservative soil N cycling. Faster turnover rates of NH4+ compared to NO3? indicated that NH4+ cycles faster through microorganisms than NO3?, possibly contributing to better retention of NH4+ than NO3?. However this was opposite to abiotic retention processes, which showed higher conversion of NO3? to the organic N pool than NH4+. Our combined results suggest that clay Oxisol in Amazonian forest have higher N availability than sandy Oxisol, which will have important consequences for changes in soil N cycling and losses when projected increase in anthropogenic N deposition will occur.  相似文献   

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Dissolved organic matter (DOM) plays a central role in driving many chemical and biological processes in soil; however, our understanding of the fluxes and composition of the DOM pool still remains unclear. In this study we investigated the composition and dynamics of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and nitrogen (DON) in five temperate coniferous forests. We subsequently related our findings to the inputs (litterfall, throughfall, atmospheric deposition) and outputs (leaching, respiration) of C and N from the forest and to plant available sources of N. With the exception of NO3?, most of the measured soil solution components (e.g. DOC, DON, NH4+, free amino acids, total phenolics and proteins) progressively declined in concentration with soil depth, particularly in the organic horizons. This decline correlated well with total microbial activity within the soil profile. We calculated that the amount of C lost by soil respiration each day was equivalent to 70% of the DOC pool and 0.06% of the total soil C. The rapid rate of amino acid mineralization and the domination of the low molecular weight soluble N pool by inorganic N suggest that the microbial community is C‐ rather than N‐limited and that C‐limitation increases with soil depth. Further, our results suggest that the forest stands were not N‐limited and were probably more reliant on inorganic N as a primary N source rather than DON. In conclusion, our results show that the size of the DON and DOC pools are small relative to both the amount of C and N passing through the soil each year and the total C and N present in the soil. In addition, high rates of atmospheric N deposition in these forests may have removed competition for N resources between the plant and microbial communities.  相似文献   

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Agricultural systems that receive high or low organic matter (OM) inputs would be expected to differ in soil nitrogen (N) transformation rates and fates of ammonium (NH4+) and nitrate (NO3−). To compare NH4+ availability, competition between nitrifiers and heterotrophic microorganisms for NH4+, and microbial NO3− assimilation in an organic vs. a conventional irrigated cropping system in the California Central Valley, chemical and biological soil assays, 15N isotope pool dilution and 15N tracer techniques were used. Potentially mineralizable N (PMN) and hot minus cold KCl-extracted NH4+ as indicators of soil N supplying capacity were measured five times during the tomato growing season. At mid-season, rates of gross ammonification and gross nitrification after rewetting dry soil were measured in microcosms. Microbial immobilization of NO3− and NH4+ was estimated based on the uptake of 15N and gross consumption rates. Gross ammonification, PMN, and hot minus cold KCl-extracted NH4+ were approximately twice as high in the organically than the conventionally managed soil. Net estimated microbial NO3− assimilation rates were between 32 and 35% of gross nitrification rates in the conventional and between 37 and 46% in the organic system. In both soils, microbes assimilated more NO3− than NH4+. Heterotrophic microbes assimilated less NH4+ than NO3− probably because NH4+ concentrations were low and competition by nitrifiers was apparently strong. The high OM input organic system released NH4+ in a gradual manner and, compared to the low OM input conventional system, supported a more active microbial biomass with greater N demand that was met mainly by NO3− immobilization.  相似文献   

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A 15N tracing study was carried out to identify microbial and abiotic nitrogen (N) transformations in a south Chilean Nothofagus betuloides forest soil which is characterized by low N inputs and absence of human disturbance. Gross N transformation rates were quantified with a 15N tracing model in combination with a Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling algorithm for parameter estimation. The 15N tracing model included five different N pools (ammonium (NH4+), nitrate (NO3−), labile (Nlab) and recalcitrant (Nrec) soil organic matter and adsorbed NH4+), and ten gross N transformation rates. The N dynamics in the N. betuloides ecosystem are characterized by low net but high gross mineralization rates. Mineralization in this soil was dominated by turnover of Nlab, while immobilization of NH4+ predominantly entered the Nrec pool. A fast exchange between the NH4+ and the adsorbed NH4+ pool was observed, possibly via physical adsorption on and release from clay lattices, providing an effective buffer for NH4+. Moreover, high NH4+ immobilization rates into the Nrec pool ensure a sustained ecosystem productivity. Nitrate, the most mobile form of N in the system, is characterized by a slow turnover and was produced in roughly equal amounts from NH4+ oxidation and organic N oxidation. More than 86% of the NO3− produced was immediately consumed again. This study showed for the first time that dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium (DNRA) was almost exclusively (>99%) responsible for NO3− consumption. DNRA rather than NO3− immobilization ensures that NO3− is transformed into another available N form. DNRA may therefore be a widespread N retention mechanism in ecosystems that are N-limited and receive high rainfalls.  相似文献   

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Summary Studies of the effects of different forms of N on urease production in soils amended with organic C showed that although microbial activity, as measured by CO2 production, was stimulated by the addition of NH4 + or NO3 - to C-amended soils (200 mol glucose-C g–1 soil), urease production was repressed by these forms of N. The addition of L-methionine sulfoximine, an inhibitor of inorganic N assimilation by microorganisms, relieved the NH4 + and NO3 - repression of urease production in C-amended soil. The addition of sodium chlorate, an inhibitor of NO3 - reduction to NH4 + by microorganisms, relieved the NO3 - repression of urease production, but did not eliminate the repression associated with NH4 +. These observations indicate that microbial production of urease in C-amended soils is not directly repressed by NH4 + or NO3 -, but by products formed by microbial assimilation of these forms of N. This conclusion is supported by our finding that the biologically active L-isomers of alanine, arginine, asparagine, aspartate, and glutamine, repressed urease production in C-amended soil, whereas the D-isomers of these amino acids had little or no influence on urease production. This work suggests that urease synthesis by soil microorganisms is controlled by the global N regulon.  相似文献   

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A study was carried out to investigate the potential gross nitrogen (N) transformations in natural secondary coniferous and evergreen broad-leaf forest soils in subtropical China. The simultaneously occurring gross N transformations in soil were quantified by a 15N tracing study. The results showed that N dynamics were dominated by NH4+ turnover in both soils. The total mineralization (from labile and recalcitrant organic N) in the broad-leaf forest was more than twice the rate in the coniferous forest soil. The total rate of mineral N production (NH4+ + NO3−) from the large recalcitrant organic N pool was similar in the two forest soils. However, appreciable NO3− production was only observed in the coniferous forest soil due to heterotrophic nitrification (i.e. direct oxidation of organic N to NO3−), whereas nitrification in broad-leaf forest was little (or negligible). Thus, a distinct shift occurred from predominantly NH4+ production in the broad-leaf forest soil to a balanced production of NH4+ and NO3− in the coniferous forest soil. This may be a mechanism to ensure an adequate supply of available mineral N in the coniferous forest soil and most likely reflects differences in microbial community patterns (possibly saprophytic, fungal, activities in coniferous soils). We show for the first time that the high nitrification rate in these soils may be of heterotrophic rather than autotrophic nature. Furthermore, high NO3− production was only apparent in the coniferous but not in broad-leaf forest soil. This highlights the association of vegetation type with the size and the activity of the SOM pools that ultimately determines whether only NH4+ or also a high NO3− turnover is present.  相似文献   

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《Applied soil ecology》2007,35(2):423-431
This study investigated how two different N sources used as fertilizer (NO3− or NH4+) interact with an inoculated arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungus (Glomus etunicatum) in an Andisol from southern Chile. The effect of NO3− or NH4+ on mycorrhizal and non-mycorrhizal wheat plants was measured on key root–soil interface activities: pH, acid phosphatase (P-ase) activity and P availability. Root AM colonization, extraradical mycelium length and spore number were also examined at three stages of AM symbiosis development (120, 150 and 240 days after sowing, DAS). The effect of N-source on AM propagule formation was used as an index of the quality and vigor of AM colonization. Mycorrhizal root length was greater with NO3− than with NH4+ at all times. The NO3− source also improved extraradical mycelium density, which reached its maximum at 150 DAS. At each harvest the spore number in the rhizosphere soil was also greater with NO3− fertilization. This NO3− effect on spore formation ranged from 20% at a 120 DAS to 287% at a 240 DAS increase, compared with NH4+. Extraradical mycelium and AM efficiency for P acquisition appeared to be related. The particular fungus/plant metabolism as affected by N sources (NO3− or NH4+) applied did not result in differential plant growth or in changes in N plant acquisition, but affected AM development and activity. Differences in soil pH, available P or P-ase activity in soil seems not to be responsible for the improved physiological status of mycorrhizal development in NO3− fed plants. Mycorrhizal propagule formation in this soil and the high persistence of extraradical mycelium are important factors which may have a strong influence on the next crop, and thus, this aspects should be considered when a cropping system is designed. The influence of N sources on AM performance is of ecological and practical interest in volcanic soils when conventional management is used.  相似文献   

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Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and nitrogen (DON) have been hypothesized to play a central role in nutrient cycling in agricultural soils. The aim of this study was to investigate the annual dynamics of DOC and DON in a Greek vineyard soil and to assess the potential role of DON in supplying N to the vines. Our results indicated that significant quantities of DOC and DON existed in soil throughout the year and that peaks in concentration appeared to correlate with discrete agronomic events (e.g. onset of irrigation and plowing). Both field and laboratory experiments showed that free amino acids were rapidly mineralized in soil and that consequently free amino acids represented only a small proportion of the soil's total soluble N. Due to rapid nitrification the soil solution N was dominated by NO3−. Based upon the calculation of a plant-soil N budget and previous studies on N uptake in Vitis vinifera L., it is likely that DON uptake does not directly supply significant amounts of N to the plant. As the soil was not N limited we hypothesize that amino acids are used by the microbial community more as a source of C rather than a source of N. While we conclude that DON constitutes a significant N pool in vineyard soils further work is required to chemically characterize its constituent units and their relative bioavailability so that their overall role in N cycling can be determined.  相似文献   

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A soil column method was used to compare the effect of drip fertigation (the application of fertilizer through drip irrigation systems, DFI) on the leaching loss and transformation of urea-N in soil with that of surface fertilization combined with flood irrigation (SFI), and to study the leaching loss and transformation of three kinds of nitrogen fertilizers (nitrate fertilizer, ammonium fertilizer, and urea fertilizer) in two contrasting soils after the fertigation. In comparison to SFI, DFI decreased leaching loss of urea-N from the soil and increased the mineral N (NH4+-N + NO3--N) in the soil. The N leached from a clay loam soil ranged from 5.7% to 9.6% of the total N added as fertilizer, whereas for a sandy loam soil they ranged between 16.2% and 30.4%. Leaching losses of mineral N were higher when nitrate fertilizer was used compared to urea or ammonium fertilizer. Compared to the control (without urea addition), on the first day when soils were fertigated with urea, there were increases in NH4+-N in the soils. This confirmed the rapid hydrolysis of urea in soil during fertigation. NH4+-N in soils reached a peak about 5 days after fertigation, and due to nitrification it began to decrease at day 10. After applying NH4+-N fertilizer and urea and during the incubation period, the mineral nitrogen in the soil decreased. This may be related to the occurrence of NH4+-N fixation or volatilization in the soil during the fertigation process.  相似文献   

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The extraction of soils by the electro-ultrafiltration (EUF) method yields organic N which has been used as an index for mineralisable N in soils. This EUF extractable organic fraction contains a mixture of various N compounds not yet completely identified. It has been proposed that the amino N compounds are more indicative for the potentially mineralisable N in soils than the total organic N extracted (Mengel et al., 1999). An amendment of soils with easily mineralisable organic matter may, therefore, alter the amino N concentrations of the organic N extracted. Our determination of the amino N compounds aimed to prove this hypothesis. The principle of our experiment was to mix soil with green manure, bacterial biomass and cellulose, respectively, and to incubate the treated soil aerobically for 80 days at 20°C in the laboratory. Control treatments without organic amendment were also incubated. Soil samples were taken several times during the incubation period and analysed for the inorganic N (NO3−-N and NH4+-N) and for the EUF extractable organic N. Amino acids and amino sugars were determined in the hydrolysed EUF extracts. The concentrations of amino acids and amino sugars in the organic N extracted varied with time and differed between the treatments. Glutamic acid has been found to be the most relevant amino acid in the EUF extracts and was particularly indicative for the existence of mineralisable green manure in the soil. Glucosamine was the most relevant amino sugar in the EUF extracts and this amino sugar appears to be indicative for the easily mineralisable relics of microbial cells in the soil.  相似文献   

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Ammonia oxidizing bacteria (AOB) control the rate limiting step of nitrification, the conversion of ammonia (NH4+) to nitrite (NO2−). The AOB therefore have an important role to play in regulating soil nitrogen cycling. Tillage aerates the soil, stimulating rapid changes in soil N cycling and microbial communities. Here we report results of a study of the short term responses of AOB and net nitrification to simulated tillage and NH4+ addition to soil. The intensively farmed vegetable soils of the Salinas Valley, California, provide the context for this study. These soils are cultivated frequently, receive large N fertilizer inputs and there are regional concerns about groundwater N concentrations. An understanding of N dynamics in these systems is therefore important. AOB population sizes were quantified using a real-time PCR approach. In a 15 day experiment AOB populations, increased rapidly following tillage and NH4+ addition and persisted after the depletion of soil NH4+. AOB population sizes increased to a similar degree, over a 1.5-day period, irrespective of the amount of NH4+ supplied. These data suggest selection of an AOB community in this intensively farmed and C-limited soil, that rapidly uses NH4+ that becomes available. These data also suggest that mineralization may play an especially important role in regulating AOB populations where NH4+ pool sizes are very low. Methodological considerations in the study of soil AOB communities are also discussed.  相似文献   

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The short-term effects of excessive NH4+-N on selected characteristics of soil unaffected (low annual N inputs) and affected (high annual N inputs) by cattle were investigated under laboratory conditions. The major hypothesis tested was that above a theoretical upper limit of NH4+ concentration, an excess of NH4+-N does not further increase NO3− formation rate in the soil, but only supports accumulation of NO2−-N and gaseous losses of N as N2O. Soils were amended with 10 to 500 μg NH4+-N g−1 soil. In both soils, addition of NH4+-N increased production of NO3−-N until some limit. This limit was higher in cattle-affected soil than in unaffected soil. Production of N2O increased in the whole range of amendments in both soils. At the highest level of NH4+-N addition, NO2−-N accumulated in cattle-affected soil while NO3−-N production decreased in cattle-unaffected soil. Despite being statistically significant, observed effects of high NH4+-N addition were relatively weak. Uptake of mineral N, stimulated by glucose amendment, decreased the mineral N content in both soils, but it also greatly increased production of N2O.  相似文献   

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In cultivated soils, total soil N, organic C and C-to-N ratios were in the range of 0.24–0.49%, 3.1–5.8% and 10.7–15.0, respectively in the surface horizons and decreased with depth. Native fixed NH+4-N accounted for 2.3–3.0% of total soil N in surface horizons but while the quantities of fixed NH+4-N decreased with depth, the proportion to total soil N increased. Exchangeable NH+4-N ranged from 15 to 32 and NO?3-N from 26 to 73 μg g?1 soil in surface horizons, and both decreased with depth. Exchangeable-N accounted for 1.1–2.4% of total soil N. Over 97% of total soil N was organically bound.Of the total soil N in the surface horizons, 29.0–79.0% was acid hydrolysable and 21.0–71.0% was nonhydrolysable. The range of proportions of each of hydrolysable NH+4-N, hexosamine-N, serine plus threonine α-amino acid-N, identified-N, and unidentified-N to total soil N in the surface horizons were 14.5–22.4, 4.8–9.2, 0.2–5.8, 4.0–16.7, 23.3–48.8, and 0.3–41.5%, respectively. Hydrolysable NH+4-N constituted the largest proportion of the identified-N fraction. Distribution patterns of the organic-N fractions in the profiles varied from soil to soil. Sixteen amino acids were identified which accounted for 82–100% of the α-amino acid-N fraction in the soils; glycine and alanine alone accounted for 35–40%. All the organic-N fractions were transformed to varying degree during aerobic incubation.  相似文献   

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Changes of land-use type (LUT) can affect soil nutrient pools and cycling processes that relate long-term sustainability of ecosystem, and can also affect atmospheric CO2 concentrations and global warming through soil respiration. We conducted a comparative study to determine NH4+ and NO3− concentrations in soil profiles (0–200 cm) and examined the net nitrogen (N) mineralization and net nitrification in soil surface (0–20 cm) of adjacent naturally regenerated secondary forests (NSF), man-made forests (MMF), grasslands and cropland soils from the windy arid and semi-arid Hebei plateau, the sandstorm and water source area of Beijing, China. Cropland and grassland soils showed significantly higher inorganic N concentrations than forest soils. NO3−-N accounted for 50–90% of inorganic N in cropland and grassland soils, while NH4+-N was the main form of inorganic N in NSF and MMF soils. Average net N-mineralization rates (mg kg−1 d−1) were much higher in native ecosystems (1.51 for NSF soils and 1.24 for grassland soils) than in human disturbed LUT (0.15 for cropland soils and 0.85 for MMF soils). Net ammonification was low in all the LUT while net nitrification was the major process of net N mineralization. For more insight in urea transformation, the increase in NH4+ and, NO3− concentrations as well as C mineralization after urea addition was analyzed on whole soils. Urea application stimulated the net soil C mineralization and urea transformation pattern was consistent with net soil N mineralization, except that the rate was slightly slower. Land-use conversion from NSF to MMF, or from grassland to cropland decreased soil net N mineralization, but increased net nitrification after 40 years or 70 years, respectively. The observed higher rates of net nitrification suggested that land-use conversions in the Hebei plateau might lead to N losses in the form of nitrate.  相似文献   

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Nitrous oxide (N2O) from agricultural soil is a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions. Biochar amendment can contribute to climate change mitigation by suppressing emissions of N2O from soil, although the mechanisms underlying this effect are poorly understood. We investigated the effect of biochar on soil N2O emissions and N cycling processes by quantifying soil N immobilisation, denitrification, nitrification and mineralisation rates using 15N pool dilution techniques and the FLUAZ numerical calculation model. We then examined whether biochar amendment affected N2O emissions and the availability and transformations of N in soils.Our results show that biochar suppressed cumulative soil N2O production by 91% in near-saturated, fertilised soils. Cumulative denitrification was reduced by 37%, which accounted for 85–95 % of soil N2O emissions. We also found that physical/chemical and biological ammonium (NH4+) immobilisation increased with biochar amendment but that nitrate (NO3−) immobilisation decreased. We concluded that this immobilisation was insignificant compared to total soil inorganic N content. In contrast, soil N mineralisation significantly increased by 269% and nitrification by 34% in biochar-amended soil.These findings demonstrate that biochar amendment did not limit inorganic N availability to nitrifiers and denitrifiers, therefore limitations in soil NH4+ and NO3− supply cannot explain the suppression of N2O emissions. These results support the concept that biochar application to soil could significantly mitigate agricultural N2O emissions through altering N transformations, and underpin efforts to develop climate-friendly agricultural management techniques.  相似文献   

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