Improved isotopic model based on 15 N tracing and Rayleigh-type isotope fractionation for simulating differential sources of N2 O emissions in a clay grassland soil

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RATIONALE: Isotopic signatures of N2 O can help distinguish between two sources (fertiliser N or endogenous soil N) of N2 O emissions. The contribution of each source to N2 O emissions after N-application is difficult to determine. Here, isotopologue signatures of emitted N2 O are used in an improved isotopic model based on Rayleigh-type equations.

METHODS: The effects of a partial (33% of surface area, treatment 1c) or total (100% of surface area, treatment 3c) dispersal of N and C on gaseous emissions from denitrification were measured in a laboratory incubation system (DENIS) allowing simultaneous measurements of NO, N2 O, N2 and CO2 over a 12-day incubation period. To determine the source of N2 O emissions those results were combined with both the isotope ratio mass spectrometry analysis of the isotopocules of emitted N2 O and those from the 15 N-tracing technique.

RESULTS: The spatial dispersal of N and C significantly affected the quantity, but not the timing, of gas fluxes. Cumulative emissions are larger for treatment 3c than treatment 1c. The 15 N-enrichment analysis shows that initially ~70% of the emitted N2 O derived from the applied amendment followed by a constant decrease. The decrease in contribution of the fertiliser N-pool after an initial increase is sooner and larger for treatment 1c. The Rayleigh-type model applied to N2 O isotopocules data (δ15 Nbulk -N2 O values) shows poor agreement with the measurements for the original one-pool model for treatment 1c; the two-pool models gives better results when using a third-order polynomial equation. In contrast, in treatment 3c little difference is observed between the two modelling approaches.

CONCLUSIONS: The importance of N2 O emissions from different N-pools in soil for the interpretation of N2 O isotopocules data was demonstrated using a Rayleigh-type model. Earlier statements concerning exponential increase in native soil nitrate pool activity highlighted in previous studies should be replaced with a polynomial increase with dependency on both N-pool sizes.

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2019

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2019

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:33

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Rapid communications in mass spectrometry : RCM - 33(2019), 5 vom: 15. März, Seite 449-460

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Englisch

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Castellano-Hinojosa, Antonio [VerfasserIn]
Loick, Nadine [VerfasserIn]
Dixon, Elizabeth [VerfasserIn]
Matthews, G Peter [VerfasserIn]
Lewicka-Szczebak, Dominika [VerfasserIn]
Well, Reinhard [VerfasserIn]
Bol, Roland [VerfasserIn]
Charteris, Alice [VerfasserIn]
Cardenas, Laura [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 04.03.2019

Date Revised 15.11.2023

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10.1002/rcm.8374

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NLM291916120