Tropical land use change and soil emissions of nitrogen oxides

Soil Use and Management

Volumn 13, Issue 4 SUPPL., 1997, Pages 278-287

  Erickson, H E ^a   Keller, M ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL FORESTRY   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Deforestation; Emission; Nitrogen oxides; Pastures; Soil; Tropics

Indexed keywords

LAND USE CHANGE; NITROGEN OXIDE; SOIL EMISSION; TROPICS;

EID: 0031415686     PISSN: 02660032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-2743.1997.tb00599.x     Document Type: Review

References (71)

1. BABBAR L.I. & ZAK, D.R. 1994. Nitrogen cycling in coffee agroecosystems: net N mineralization and nitrification in the presence and absence of shade trees. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 48, 107-113.
2. BABBAR, L.I. & ZAK, D.R. 1995. Nitrogen loss from coffee agroecosystems in Costa Rica: leaching and denitrification in the presence and absence of shade trees. Journal of Environmental Quality 24, 227-233.
3. BANGE, H.W., RAPSOMAMKIS, S. & ANDREAE, M.O. 1996. Nitrous oxide in coastal waters. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 10, 197-207.
4. BOAG, S., WHITE, D.H. & HOWDEN, S.M. 1994. Monitoring and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural, forestry and other human activities. Climatic Change 27, 5-11.
5. BOOLTINK, H.W.G. & BOUMA, J. 1991. Physical and morphological characterization of bypass flow in a well-structured clay soil. Soil Science Society of America Journal 55, 1249-1254.
6. BOUWMAN, A.F., VAN DER HOEK, K.W. & OLIVIER, J.G.J. 1995. Uncertainties in the global source distribution of nitrous oxide. Journal of Geophysical Research 100, 2785-2800.
7. BURGESS, J.C. 1993. Timber production, timber trade and tropical deforestation. Ambio 22, 136-143.
8. CICERONE, R.J. 1987. Changes in stratospheric ozone. Science 237, 35-42.
9. CONRAD, R., KRAMER, A.R., BAUMGARTNER, M. & NAGELE, W. 1990. Mechanisms of NO exchange between soil and atmosphere. EUROTRAC Symposium '90, 123-126.
10. CRUTZEN, P.J. & ANDREAE, M.O. 1990. Biomass burning in the tropics: Impact on atmospheric chemistry and biogeochemical cycles. Science 250, 1669-1678.
11. 2O from composted organic wastes. Environmental Science & Technology, 30, 2519-2525.
12. DAVIDSON, E.A., VITOUSEK, P.M., MATSON, P.A., RILEY, R., GARCÍA-MÉNDEZ, G. & MAASS, J.M. 1991. Soil emissions of nitric oxide in a seasonally dry tropical forest of Mexico. Journal of Geophysical Research 96, 15439-15445.
13. DAVIDSON, E.A. & KINGERLEE, W. 1997. A global inventory of nitric oxide emissions from soils. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems 48, 91-104.
14. DE ONIS, J. 1992. The Green Cathedral: sustainable development of Amazonia. Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 75-76.
15. DELMAS, R. 1982. On the emission of carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur in the atmosphere during bushfires in intertropical Savanna zones. Geophysical Research Letters 9, 761-764.
16. DUXBURY, J.M. 1995. The significance of greenhouse gas emissions from soils of tropical agroecosystems. In: Soil management and greenhouse effect (eds R. Lal, J. Kimble, E. Levine & B. A. Stewart) CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, pp. 279-291.
17. FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION 1993. Forest resources assessment 1990 - Tropical countries. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome.
18. FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION 1995a. Fertilizer 1994. FAO Yearbook. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Volume 44, Rome.
19. FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION 1995b. Production 1994. FAO Yearbook. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Volume 48, Rome.
20. 2O production and consumption in soil. In: Exchange of trace gases between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere (eds M. O. Andreae & D. S. Schimel), John Wiley & Sons, Berlin, pp. 7-21.
21. GILLER, K.E. & CADISCH, G. 1995. Future benefits from biological nitrogen fixation: an ecological approach to agriculture. Plant and Soil 174, 255-277.
22. 2O by nitrifying bacteria at reduced concentrations of oxygen. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 40, 526-532.
23. HAGGAR, J.P., TANNER, E.V.J., BEER, J.W. & KASS, D.C.L. 1993. Nitrogen dynamics of tropical agroforestry and annual cropping systems. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 25, 1363-1378.
24. HOUGHTON, R.A. 1994. The worldwide extent of land use change. Bioscience 44, 305-313.
25. ISERMANN, K. 1994. Agriculture's share in the emission of trace gases affecting the climate and some cause-oriented proposals for sufficiently reducing this share. Environmental Pollution 83, 95-111.
26. JOHANSEN, C. & KERRIDGE, P.C. 1979. Nitrogen fixation and transfer in tropical legume-grass swards in south-eastern Queensland. Tropical Grasslands 13, 165-170.
27. JORDAN, C.F. 1985. Nutrient Cycling in Tropical Forest Ecosystems. John Wiley & Sons, New York.
28. KELLER, M., JACOB, D.J., WOFSY, S.C. & HARRISS, R.C. 1991. Effects of tropical deforestation on global and regional atmospheric chemistry. Climatic Change 19, 139-158.
29. KELLER, M., VELDKAMP, E., WEITZ, A.M. & REINERS, W.A. 1993. Effect of pasture age on soil trace-gas emissions from a deforested area of Costa Rica. Nature 365, 244-246.
30. KELLER, M. & MATSON, P.A. 1994. Biosphere-atmosphere exchange of trace gases in the tropics: evaluating the effects of land use changes. In: Global Atmospheric-Biospheric Chemistry (ed. R. G. Prinn), Plenum Press, New York, pp 103-117.
31. KELLER, M. & REINERS, W.A. 1994. Soil-atmosphere exchange of nitrous oxide, nitric oxide, and methane under secondary succesion of pasture to forest in the Atlantic lowlands of Costa Rica. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 8, 399-409.
32. KHALIL, M.A.K. & RASMUSSEN, R.A. 1992. The global sources of nitrous oxide. Journal of Geophysical Research 97, 14651-14660.
33. LI, C., FROLKING, S. & FROLKING, T.A. 1992. A model of nitrous oxide evolution from soil driven by rainfall events: 1. Model structure and sensitivity. Journal of Geophysical Research 97, 9759-9776.
34. 2O emissions. In: Soil management and greenhouse effect (eds R. Lal, E. Levine & B. A. Steward) CRC Press Inc., Boca Raton, pp. 101-120.
35. LUIZÃO, F., MATSON, P., LIVINGSTON, G., LUIZÃO, R. & VITOUSEK, P. 1989. Nitrous oxide flux following tropical land clearing. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 3, 281-285.
36. MATSON, P.A., VITOUSEK, P.M., EWEL, J.J., MAZZARINO, M.J. & ROBERTSON, G.P. 1987. Nitrogen transformations following tropical forest felling and burning on a volcanic soil. Ecology 68, 491-502.
37. MATSON, P.A. & VITOUSEK, P.M. 1990. Ecosystem apporach for the development of a global nitrous oxide budget. Bioscience 40, 667-672.
38. MATSON, P.A., BILLOW, C., HALL, S. & ZACHARIASSEN, J. 1996a. Fertilization practices and soil variations control nitrogen oxide emissions from tropical sugar cane. Journal of Geophysical Research 101, 18533-18545.
39. MATSON, P.A., BILLOW, T., PANEK, J., MONASTERIO, I.O. & NAYLOR, R. 1996b. Fertilizer management and consequences for nitrogen trace gas emissions from Mexican wheat systems. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 77, 287.
40. MATTHEWS, E. 1994. Nitrogenous fertilizers: Global distribution of consumption and associated emissions of nitrous oxide and ammonia. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 8, 411-439.
41. MATTOS, M.M. & UHL, C. 1996. Perspectivas economicas e ecologicas da pecuaria na Amazonia Oriental na década de 90: o caso Paragominas. In: A evolucao da fronteira Amazonica oportunidades para um desenvolvimento sustentavel (ed. O. Almeida), Porto Alegre Edicioes Caravela, Belém, pp. 41-65.
42. MORAN, E.F., PACKER, A., BRONDIZIO, E. & TUCKER, J. 1996. Restoration of vegetation cover in the eastern Amazon. Ecological Economics 18, 41-54.
43. MYERS, N. 1991. Tropical forests: present status and future outlook. In: Tropical Forests and Climate (ed. N. Myers), Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 3-32.
44. NEILL, C. & CERRI, C.C. et al. Stocks and dynamics of soil carbon following deforestation for pasture in Rondônia. In: Soil processes and the carbon cycle (eds R. Lal, J.M. Kimble, R.F. Follett & B.A. Stewart) CRC/St. Lucie Press, Boca Raton, Florida (in press).
45. NEPSTAD, D.C., KLINK, C.A. et al. 1997. Land use in Amazonia and the Cerrado. Ciencia e Cultura 49, 73-86.
46. NYE, P.H. & GREENLAND, D.J. 1964. Changes in soil after clearing tropical forest. Plant and Soil 21, 101-112.
47. OSMOND, D.L. & RIHA, S.J. 1996. Nitrogen fertilizer requirements for maize produced in the tropics: a comparison of three computer-based recommendation systems. Agricultural Systems 50, 37-50.
48. PALM, C.A. 1995. Contribution of agroforestry trees to nutrient requirements of intercropped plants. Agroforestry Systems 30, 105-124.
49. 2O production and denitrification from tropical pasture and rain forest soils. Biogeochemistry 22, 179-193.
50. PETERJOHN, W.T. & CORREL, D.L. 1984. Nutrient dynamics in an agricultural watershed: observations on the role of a riparian forest. Ecology 65, 1466-1475.
51. PINNARD, M.A. 1995. Carbon retention by reduced-impact logging. PhD Thesis, University of Florida.
52. POORE, D., BURGESS, P., PALMER, J., RIETBERGEN, S. & SYNNOTT, T. 1989. Na timber without trees: Sustainability in the tropical forest. Earthscan Publications Ltd., London.
53. 2O production by Nitrosomonas europea: an examination of nitrifier denitrification. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 49, 1134-1141.
54. PRINN, R., CUNNOLD, D. et al. 1990. Atmospheric emissions and trends of nitrous oxide deduced from 10 years of ALE-GAGE data. Journal of Geophysical Research 18, 18369-18385.
55. RADULOVICH, R., SOLLINS, P., BAVEYE, P. & SOLÓRZANO, E. 1992. Bypass water flow through unsaturated microaggregated tropical soils. Soil Science Society of America Journal 56, 721-726.
56. REINERS, W.A., BOUWMAN, A.F., PARSONS, W.F.J. & KELLER, M. 1994. Tropical rain forest conversion to pasture: Changes in vegetation and soil properties. Ecological Applications 4, 363-377.
57. ROBERTSON, G.P. 1993. Fluxes of nitrous oxide and other nitrogen trace gases from intensively managed landscapes: A global perspective. Agricultural Ecosystem Effects on Trace Cases and Global Climate Change. American Society of Agronomy Special Publication no. 55, pp. 95-108.
58. ROSENZWEIG, C. 1994. Agriculture in a changing global environment. Soil Science Society of America Journal 41, 59-71.
59. SCHLESINGER, W.H. 1991. Biogeochemistry: an analysis of global change. Academic Press, Inc., San Diego.
60. SKOLE, D. & TUCKER, C. 1993. Tropical deforestation and habitat fragmentation in the Amazon: satellite data from 1978 to 1988. Science 260, 1905-1910.
61. SMIL, V. 1990. Phosphorus and Nitrogen. In: The Earth as Transformed by Human Action (eds B.L. Turner II, W.C. Clark, R.W. Kates, J.F. Richards, J.T. Mathews & W.B. Meyer), Cambridge University Press, New York, pp. 423-436.
62. STEUDLER, P.A., MELILLO, J.M., BOWDEN, R.D. & CASTRO, M.S. 1991. The effects of natural and human disturbances on soil nitrogen dynamics and trace gas fluxes in a Puerto Rican wet forest. Biotropica 23, 356-363.
63. SZOTT, L.T. & KASS, D.C.L. 1993. Fertilizers in agroforestry systems. Agroforestry Systems 23, 153-176.
64. VELDKAMP, E. 1994. Organic carbon turnover in three tropical soils under pasture after deforestation. Soil Science Society of America Journal 58, 175-180.
65. VELDKAMP, E. & KELLER, M. 1997. Nitrogen oxide emissions from banana plantation in the humid tropics. Journal of Geophysical Research, 102, 15889-15898.
66. VERISSIMO, A., BARRETO, P., TARIFA, R. & UHL, C. 1995. Extraction of a high-value natural resource in Amazonia: The case of mahogany. Forest Ecology and Management 12, 39-60.
67. VERISSIMO, A., BARRETO, P., MATTOS, M., TARIFA, R. & UHL, C. 1996. Impactos da atividade madeireira e perspectivas para o manejo sustentável da Floresta numa velha Fronteira da Amazonia:o Caso Paragominas. In: A evolucao da fronteira Amazonica oportunidades para um desenvolvimento sustentavel (ed. O. ALMEIDA), Porto Alegre Edicioes Caravela, Belém, pp. 7-35.
68. VITOUSEK, P.M. & DENSLOW, J.S. 1986. Nitrogen and phosphorus availability in treefall gaps of a lowland tropical forest. Journal of Ecology 74, 1167-1178.
69. VITOUSEK, P., MATSON, P., VOLKMANN, C., MAASS, J.M. & GARCÍA, G. 1989. Nitrous oxide flux from dry tropical forests. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 3, 375-382.
70. 2O emissions from soil. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 6, 351-388.
71. YIENGER, J.J. & LEVY, H., II. 1995. Empirical model of global soil-biogenic NOx emissions. Journal of Geophysical Research 100, 11447-11464.