Excessive use of nitrogen in Chinese agriculture results in high N2O/(N2O+N2) product ratio of denitrification, primarily due to acidification of the soils

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1685-1698

  Qu, Zhi ^a   Wang, Jingguo ^b   Almøy, Trygve ^a   Bakken, Lars R ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Denitrification; Fertilizer; Nitrous oxide; Soil acidification

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; AGRICULTURAL SOIL; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DENITRIFICATION; FERTILIZER; LEACHING; NITRATE; NITROGEN; NITROUS OXIDE; SOIL EMISSION; SOIL RESPIRATION;

CHINA;

FERTILIZER; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; NITROGEN; NITROUS OXIDE; SOIL;

AGRICULTURE; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; DENITRIFICATION; METABOLISM; PH; SOIL;

AGRICULTURE; CHINA; DENITRIFICATION; FERTILIZERS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; NITRATES; NITROGEN; NITROUS OXIDE; SOIL;

EID: 84898480925     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12461     Document Type: Article

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