PMID- 23229048 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20140421 LR - 20130923 IS - 1879-1026 (Electronic) IS - 0048-9697 (Linking) VI - 465 DP - 2013 Nov 1 TI - Effect of long-term compost and inorganic fertilizer application on background N2O and fertilizer-induced N2O emissions from an intensively cultivated soil. PG - 115-24 LID - S0048-9697(12)01444-1 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.11.020 [doi] AB - The influence of inorganic fertilizer and compost on background nitrous oxide (N2O) and fertilizer-induced N2O emissions were examined over a maize-wheat rotation year from June 2008 to May 2009 in a fluvo-aquic soil in Henan Province of China where a field experiment had been established in 1989 to evaluate the long-term effects of manure and fertilizer on soil organic status. The study involved five treatments: compost (OM), fertilizer NPK (nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium, NPK), half compost N plus half fertilizer N (HOM), fertilizer NK (NK), and control without any fertilizer (CK). The natural logarithms of the background N2O fluxes were significantly (P<0.05) correlated with soil temperature, but not with soil moisture, during the maize or wheat growing season. The 18-year application of compost alone and inorganic fertilizer not only significantly (P<0.05) increased soil organic carbon (SOC) by 152% and 10-43% (respectively), but also increased background N2O emissions by 106% and 48-76% (respectively) compared with the control. Total N in soils was a better indicator for predicting annual background N2O emission than SOC. The estimated emission factor (EF) of mineralized N, calculated by dividing annual N2O emission by mineralized N was 0.13-0.19%, significantly (P<0.05) lower than the EF of added N (0.30-0.39%). The annual N2O emission in the NPK, HOM and OM soils amended with 300 kg ha(-1) organic or inorganic N was 1427, 1325 and 1178 g N ha(-1), respectively. There was a significant (P<0.05) difference between the NPK and OM. The results of this study indicate that soil indigenous N was less efficiently converted into N2O compared with exogenous N. Increasing SOC by compost application, then partially increasing N supply to crops instead of adding inorganic N fertilizer, may be an effective measure to mitigate N2O emissions from arable soils in the North China plain. CI - Copyright (c) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Ding, Weixin AU - Ding W AD - State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China. Electronic address: wxding@issas.ac.cn. FAU - Luo, Jiafa AU - Luo J FAU - Li, Jie AU - Li J FAU - Yu, Hongyan AU - Yu H FAU - Fan, Jianling AU - Fan J FAU - Liu, Deyan AU - Liu D LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20121208 PL - Netherlands TA - Sci Total Environ JT - The Science of the total environment JID - 0330500 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Background N(2)O emission OT - Compost OT - Inorganic fertilizer OT - Mineralized nitrogen OT - Soil organic carbon OT - Soil total nitrogen EDAT- 2012/12/12 06:00 MHDA- 2012/12/12 06:01 CRDT- 2012/12/12 06:00 PHST- 2012/06/15 00:00 [received] PHST- 2012/11/04 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2012/11/05 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2012/12/12 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2012/12/12 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2012/12/12 06:01 [medline] AID - S0048-9697(12)01444-1 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.11.020 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Sci Total Environ. 2013 Nov 1;465:115-24. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.11.020. Epub 2012 Dec 8.