Soil pH affects the processes reducing nitrate to nitrous oxide and di-nitrogen

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 30, Issue 8-9, 1998, Pages 1119-1126

  Stevens, R J ^a,b   Laughlin, R J ^b   Malone, J P ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b AGRI FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENITRIFICATION; IDENTIFICATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NITRATE; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN; NITROUS OXIDE; PH; SOIL;

DENITRIFICATION; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN DYNAMICS; NITROUS OXIDE; SOIL PH;

EID: 0032146632     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0038-0717(97)00227-7     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. 15N tracer experiments I. Theory. Plant and Soil 131, 89-96.
2. 2 by soil microorganisms. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 10, 187-191.
3. Burns L. C., Stevens R. J. and Laughlin R. J. (1996) Production of nitrite in soil by simultaneous nitrification and denitrification. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 28, 609-616.
4. Chalk P. M. and Smith C. J. (1983) Chemodenitrification. In Gaseous Loss of Nitrogen from Plant-Soil Systems, eds J. F. Freney and J. R. Simpson, pp. 65-89. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague.
5. Cole J. A. (1988) Assimilatory and dissimilatory reduction of nitrate to ammonia. In The Nitrogen and Sulphur Cycles, eds J. A. Cole and S. J. Ferguson, pp. 281-329. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
6. Davidson E. A. and Schimel J. P. (1995) Microbial processes of production and consumption of nitric oxide, nitrous oxide and methane. In Biogenic Trace Gases: Measuring Emissions from Soil and Water, ed. P. A. Maison and R. C. Harriss, pp. 327-357. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
7. Ferguson S. J. (1994) Denitrification and its control. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 66, 89-110.
8. Firestone M. K. (1982) Biological denitrification. In Nitrogen in Agricultural Soils, ed. F. J. Stevenson, pp. 289-326. American Society of Agronomy, Madison.
9. 2O production and consumption in soil. In Exchange of Trace Gases Between Terrestrial Ecosystems and the Atmosphere, eds M. O. Andreae and D. S. Schimel, pp. 7-21. Wiley, New York.
10. Firestone M. K., Firestone R. B. and Tiedje J. M. (1980) Nitrous oxide from soil denitrification: factors controlling its biological production. Science 208, 749-751.
11. 2O by nitrifying bacteria at reduced concentrations of oxygen. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 40, 526-532.
12. Kaspar H. F. (1982) Nitrite reduction to nitrous oxide by Propionibacteria: detoxification mechanism. Archives of Microbiology 133, 126-130.
13. Keeney D. R. and Nelson D. W. (1982) Nitrogen -Inorganic forms. In Methods of Soil Analysis, Part 2. Chemical and Microbiological Properties, eds A. L. Page, R. H. Miller and D. R. Keeney, pp. 643-698. American Society of Agronomy, Madison.
14. Knowles R. (1981) Denitrification. In Soil Biochemistry, eds E. A. Paul and J. N. Ladd, Vol. 5, pp. 323-369. Dekker, New York.
15. Kuenen J. G. and Robertson L. A. (1994) Combined nitrification-denitrification processes. FEMS Microbiology Reviews 15, 109-117.
16. Laughlin R. J., Stevens R. J. and Zhuo S. (1997) Determining ni trogen-15 in ammonium by producing nitrous oxide. Soil Science Society of America Journal 61, 462-465.
17. Linn D. M. and Doran J. W. (1984) Effect of water-filled pore space on carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide production in tilled and nontilled soils. Soil Science Society of America Journal 48, 1267-1272.
18. Macfarlane G. T. and Herbert R. A. (1984) Dissimilatory nitrate reduction and nitrification in estuarine sediments. Journal of General Microbiology 130, 2301-2308.
19. Malone J. P. and Stevens R. J. (1998) Removal of nitrite impurity from nitrate labeled with nitrogen-15. Soil Science Society of America Journal (in press).
20. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (1986) The Analysis of Agricultural Materials. Reference Book 427. HMSO, London.
21. Mulvaney R. L. and Boast C. W. (1986) Equations for determination of ni trogen-15 labeled dini trogen and nitrous oxide by mass spectrometry. Soil Science Society of America Journal 50, 360-363.
22. Nijburg J. W. and Laanbroek H. J. (1997) The influence of Glyceria maxima and nitrate input on the composition and nitrate metabolism of the dissimilatory nitrate-reducing bacterial community. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 22, 57-63.
23. Nishio T., Koike I. and Hattori A. (1982) Denitrification, nitrate reduction, and oxygen consumption in coastal and estuarine sediments. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 43, 648-653.
24. Nömmik H. (1956) Investigations on denitrification in soil. Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica 6, 195-228.
25. Paul J. W. and Beauchamp E. G. (1989) Denitrification and fermentation in plant-residue-amended soil. Biology and Fertility of Soils 7, 303-309.
26. 2O production by Nitrosomonas europaea - an examination of nitrifier denitrification. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 49, 1134-1141.
27. 2O by a soil Citrobacter sp. Applied Environmental Microbiology 43, 854-860.
28. Smith R. V., Burns L. C., Doyle R. M., Lennox S. D., Kelso B. H. L., Foy R. H. and Stevens R. J. (1997) Free ammonia inhibition of nitrification in river sediments leading to nitrite accumulation. Journal of Environmental Quality 26, 1044-1055.
29. Stevens R. J., Laughlin R. J., Atkins G. J. and Presser S. J. (1993) Automated determination of nitrogen-15-labeled dinitrogen and nitrous oxide by mass spectrometry. Soil Science Society of America Journal 57, 981-988.
30. Stevens R. J. and Laughlin R. J. (1994) Determining nitrogen-15 in nitrite or nitrate by producing nitrous oxide. Soil Science Society of America Journal 58, 1108-1116.
31. Stevens R. J. and Laughlin R. J. (1995) Nitrite transformations during soil extraction with potassium chloride. Soil Science Society of America Journal 59, 933-938.
32. Stevens R. J., Laughlin R. J., Burns L. C., Arah J. R. M. and Hood R. C. (1997) Measuring the contributions of nitrification and dentrification to the flux of nitrous oxide from soil. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 29, 139-151.
33. Tiedje J. M. (1982) Denitrification. In Methods of Soil Analysis, Part 2. Chemical and Microbiological Properties, eds A. L. Page, R. H. Miller and D. R. Keeney, pp. 1011-1026. American Society of Agronomy, Madison.
34. Tiedje J. M. (1988). Ecology of denitrification and dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium. In Biology of Anaerobic Microorganisms, ed. A. J. B. Zehnder, pp. 179-244. Wiley, New York.
35. Tiedje J. M., Firestone R. B., Firestone M. R., Betlach M. R., Smith M. S. and Caskey W. H. (1979) Methods for the production and use of ni trogen-13 in studies of denitrification. Soil Science Society of America Journal 43, 709-715.
36. Tiedje J. M., Sextone A. J., Myrold D. D. and Robinson J. A. (1982) Denitrification: ecological niches, competition and survival. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 48, 569-583.