Publication Date:
2015-03-06
Description:
Carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) interactions contribute to uncertainty in current biogeochemical models that aim to estimate greenhouse gas (GHG, including CO 2 and N 2 O) emissions from soil to atmosphere. In this study, we quantified CO 2 and N 2 O flux patterns and their relationship along with increasing C additions only, N additions only, a C gradient combined with excess N, and an N gradient with excess C via laboratory incubations. Conventional trends, where labile C or N addition results in higher CO 2 or N 2 O fluxes, were observed. However, at low levels of C availability, saturating N amendments reduced soil CO 2 flux while with high C availability N amendments enhanced it. At saturating C conditions increasing N amendments first reduced and then increased CO 2 fluxes. Similarly, N 2 O fluxes were initially reduced by adding labile C under N limited conditions, but additional C enhanced N...
Print ISSN:
1748-9318
Electronic ISSN:
1748-9326
Topics:
Biology
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Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering
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