Carbon (C) substrates are critical for regulating denitrification, a process that results in nitrous oxide (N2O) and dinitrogen (N2) emissions from soil. However, the impacts of C on concomitant soil carbon dioxide (CO2) N2O under varying types water contents not well studied. Three repacked Pallic grassland soils, texture phosphorus (P) status, containing NO3−-15N were held at three levels mat...

Chronic lung infection by Pseudomonas aeruginosa is the major severe complication in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, where P. aeruginosa persists and grows in biofilms in the endobronchial mucus under hypoxic conditions. Numerous polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) surround the biofilms and create local anoxia by consuming the majority of O2 for production of reactive oxygen species (ROS). We hy...

In the current study the biochar material was produced by the indigenous pyrolysis of prosopis wood material under high temperature and characterized. The impact of biochar on carbon and nutrient dynamics in soil was examined by conducting a laboratory closed incubation experiment. The biochar produced from prosopis was neutral in pH with an exchangeable acidity of 49 mmol kg. The cation exchan...

In order to elucidate and quantify nitrogen transformations occurring during aerobic treatment of pig slurry, two laboratory experiments were carried out with contrasting levels of aeration, high level (experiment 1) and low level (experiment 2) of aeration. During these experiments, after reaching steadystate conditions, a single pulse of NO3 -N tracer was added directly to the reactor. When n...

*Correspondence: María L. Cayuela, CEBAS-CSIC, Campus Universitario de Espinardo, 30100 Murcia, Spain e-mail: [email protected] In spite of the numerous studies reporting a decrease in soil nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions after biochar amendment, there is still a lack of understanding of the processes involved. Hence the subject remains controversial, with a number of studies showing no cha...

Nitrous oxide (N2O) generation and emission may hamper the wide application of denitrifying phosphorus removal technology. In this study, batch experiments were carried out to investigate the effect of nitrite on N2O generation and emission during denitrifying phosphorus removal. Compared to NO3-N, N2O emission was much higher when NO2-N was used as the electron acceptor. N2O emission had no ob...

Abiotic conversion of the reactive nitrification intermediate hydroxylamine (NH2OH) to nitrous oxide (N2O) is a possible mechanism of N2O formation during nitrification. Previous research has demonstrated that manganese dioxide (MnO2) and organic matter (OM) content of soil as well as soil pH are important control variables of N2O formation in the soil. But until now, their combined effect on a...

We combine field observations, microcosm, stoichiometry, and molecular and stable isotope techniques to quantify N2O generation processes in an intensively managed low carbon calcareous fluvo-aquic soil. All the evidence points to ammonia oxidation and linked nitrifier denitrification (ND) being the major processes generating N2O. When NH4(+)-based fertilizers are applied the soil will produce ...

Soils are capable to consume N2O. It is generally assumed that consumption occurs exclusively via respiratory reduction to N2 by denitrifying organisms (i.e. complete denitrification). Yet, we are not aware of any verification of this assumption. Some N2O may be assimilatorily reduced to NH3. Reduction of N2O to NH3 is thermodynamically advantageous compared to the reduction of N2. Is this an e...

Few studies have addressed whether in-field practices to reduce nitrate-nitrogen (NO3-N) leaching might increase nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions, which could undermine attempts mitigate agricultural N pollution. Over a 3-year period, we assessed the impacts of application timing and cereal rye (Secale cereale L.) cover crop on subsurface drainage NO3-N N2O emissions quantify changes in total loss...