Articles | Volume 14, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-711-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-711-2017
Research article
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14 Feb 2017
Research article |  | 14 Feb 2017

Quantifying N2O reduction to N2 based on N2O isotopocules – validation with independent methods (helium incubation and 15N gas flux method)

Dominika Lewicka-Szczebak, Jürgen Augustin, Anette Giesemann, and Reinhard Well

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (05 Dec 2016) by Yakov Kuzyakov
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The consumption of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N2O) by its reduction to dinitrogen via microbial denitrification in soil is poorly quantified. This precludes improvements in nitrogen (N) efficiency in agricultural ecosystems and mitigation of N losses to the environment including N2O fluxes. We present a laboratory evaluation for the determination of N2O reduction based on stable isotope values of soil-emitted N2O as a new approach to determine N2O reduction in the field studies.
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