PMID- 32688003 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20200915 LR - 20200915 IS - 1879-1026 (Electronic) IS - 0048-9697 (Linking) VI - 744 DP - 2020 Nov 20 TI - Nitrogen fertilizer application in the rice-growing season can stimulate methane emissions during the subsequent flooded fallow period. PG - 140632 LID - S0048-9697(20)34154-1 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140632 [doi] AB - Winter-flooded rice paddy field (FR), characterized by water conserved in the field during the fallow period, is a typical cropping system in southwest China, leading to considerable methane (CH(4)) emissions. The effect of nitrogen (N) fertilization on CH(4) emissions during rice-growing seasons is well studied in FR, further studies covering N fertilizer applied in the rice-growing seasons affects CH(4) emissions during the subsequent fallow period is needed. Therefore, a field experiment was conducted in an FR of Sichuan province, China, with conventional N fertilized (CN) and N unfertilized (NN) treatments. The cumulative CH(4) emission from CN treatment during the rice-growing season and the subsequent fallow period was 389 +/- 29.4 and 158 +/- 31.2 kg C ha(-1), which were increased by 29.5% and 395% in comparison with the NN treatment, indicting N applied during the rice growing-season significantly facilitated CH(4) emission during the subsequent fallow period. During the rice-growing season, higher CH(4) emission from CN treatment could be attributed to elevated soil dissolved organic carbon (DOC) content that might have provided sufficient substrates for CH(4) production. During the fallow period, as compared to NN treatment, higher CH(4) emissions from CN treatment could be explained by greater linear regression slopes between CH(4) fluxes, soil temperature and DOC to dissolved inorganic N (DIN) (DOC/DIN) ratio. Moreover, the structural equation model (SEM) described that the soil temperature exhibited the most significant effects on CH(4) emissions for both treatments during the rice-growing season and subsequent fallow period. These findings are a major step forward to showing that N fertilizer applied in the rice-growing season could also affect CH(4) emission during the subsequent fallow period, accompanying other soil parameters controlling CH(4) emission. CI - Copyright (c) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Xu, Peng AU - Xu P AD - Key Laboratory of Arable Land Conservation (Middle and Lower Reaches of the Yangtze River), Ministry of Agriculture, College of Resource and Environment, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China. FAU - Zhou, Wei AU - Zhou W AD - Key Laboratory of Arable Land Conservation (Middle and Lower Reaches of the Yangtze River), Ministry of Agriculture, College of Resource and Environment, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China. FAU - Jiang, Mengdie AU - Jiang M AD - Key Laboratory of Arable Land Conservation (Middle and Lower Reaches of the Yangtze River), Ministry of Agriculture, College of Resource and Environment, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China. FAU - Khan, Imran AU - Khan I AD - Key Laboratory of Arable Land Conservation (Middle and Lower Reaches of the Yangtze River), Ministry of Agriculture, College of Resource and Environment, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China. FAU - Shaaban, Muhammad AU - Shaaban M AD - Department of Soil Science, Faculty of Agricultural Science and Technology, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan 60800, Pakistan. FAU - Jiang, Yanbin AU - Jiang Y AD - Key Laboratory of Arable Land Conservation (Middle and Lower Reaches of the Yangtze River), Ministry of Agriculture, College of Resource and Environment, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China. FAU - Hu, Ronggui AU - Hu R AD - Key Laboratory of Arable Land Conservation (Middle and Lower Reaches of the Yangtze River), Ministry of Agriculture, College of Resource and Environment, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China. Electronic address: rghu@mail.hzau.edu.cn. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20200630 PL - Netherlands TA - Sci Total Environ JT - The Science of the total environment JID - 0330500 SB - IM OTO - NOTNLM OT - CH(4) emission OT - Soil dissolved carbon and nitrogen OT - Soil temperature OT - Winter-flooded rice paddy field COIS- Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. EDAT- 2020/07/21 06:00 MHDA- 2020/07/21 06:01 CRDT- 2020/07/21 06:00 PHST- 2020/04/09 00:00 [received] PHST- 2020/06/12 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2020/06/28 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2020/07/21 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2020/07/21 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2020/07/21 06:00 [entrez] AID - S0048-9697(20)34154-1 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140632 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Sci Total Environ. 2020 Nov 20;744:140632. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140632. Epub 2020 Jun 30.