The eastern tropical Pacific (ETP) is believed to be one of the largest marine sources of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N2O). Future N2O emissions from the ETP are highly uncertain because oxygen minimum zones are expected to expand, affecting both regional production and consumption of N2O. Here we assess three primary uncertainties in how N2O may respond to changing O2 levels: (1) the rel...

The use of stable isotopes of N and O in N2O has been proposed as a way to better constrain the global budget of atmospheric N2O and to better understand the relative contributions of the main microbial processes (nitrification and denitrification) responsible for N2O formation in soil. This study compared the isotopic composition of N2O emitted from soils under different tree species in the Br...

PURPOSE Nitrous oxide (N2O) administration with nasal mask produces variable outcomes in dental patients. This study describes a novel sampling method to measure actual inspired/expired N2O concentrations ([N2O]). METHODS Fifteen adult volunteers (32.5 +/- 8.5 years) underwent placement of a nasopharyngeal probe. With a nasal mask, 100% oxygen (O2) was administered for 2 minutes. N2O was intr...

To investigate the spatial and seasonal variations of nitrous oxide (N2O) fluxes and understand the key controlling factors, we explored N2O fluxes and environmental variables in high marsh (HM), middle marsh (MM), low marsh (LM), and mudflat (MF) in the Yellow River estuary throughout a year. Fluxes of N2O differed significantly between sampling periods as well as between sampling positions. D...

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...

Dent corn Andisol at the Hokkaido University Shizunai Livestock Experimental Farm actively emits nitrous oxide (N2O). In order to screen for culturable and active N2O emitters with high N2O emission potential, soft gel medium containing excess KNO3 was inoculated with soil suspensions from farm soil samples collected at different land managements. Dominant bacterial colonies were searched for a...

[1] We use transit time distributions calculated from tracer data together with in situ measurements of N2O to estimate the concentration of biologically produced N2O ([N2O]xs) and N2O production rates in the central North Atlantic Ocean. Our approach to estimation of N2O production rates integrates the effects of potentially varying production and decomposition mechanisms along the transport p...