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N2O emission characteristics and its affecting factors in rain-fed potato fields in Wuchuan County, China

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Representing an important greenhouse gas, nitrous oxide (N2O) emission from cultivated land is a hot topic in current climate change research. This study examined the influences of nitrogen fertilisation, temperature and soil moisture on the ammonia monooxygenase subunit A (amoA) gene copy numbers and N2O emission characteristics. The experimental observation of N2O fluxes was based on the static chamber-gas chromatographic method. The ammonia-oxidising bacteria (AOB) and ammonia-oxidising archaea (AOA) gene copy numbers in different periods were measured by real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The results indicated that rain-fed potato field was a N2O source, and the average annual N2O emission was approximately 0.46 ± 0.06 kgN2O-N/ha/year. N2O emissions increased significantly with increase in fertilisation, temperatures below 19.6 °C and soil volumetric water content under 15%. Crop rotation appreciably decreases N2O emissions by 34.4 to 52.4% compared to continuous cropping in rain-fed potato fields. The significant correlation between N2O fluxes and AOB copy numbers implied that N2O emissions were primarily controlled by AOB in rain-fed potato fields. The research has important theoretical and practical value for understanding N2O emissions from rain-fed dry farmland fields.

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Acknowledgements

This research was funded by the National Non-profit Research Foundation for Agriculture (201103039), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41371232 and 41271110), the National Basic Research Program of China (No. 2012CB956204) and the National Science and Technology Support Program of China (No. 2012BAD09B02). The authors would like to extend their thanks and appreciation to the staff at the Key Ecological and Environmental Scientific Experiment and Field Observation Station of the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture for assisting in all experiments.

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  1. College of Resources and Environmental Science, China Agricultural University, No.2 Yuanmingyuan West Road, Haidian, Beijing, 100193, People’s Republic of China

    Liwei Wang, Zhihua Pan, Zhiqiang Dong, Jingting Zhang, Guohui Cui, Sen Wang, Guolin Han & hui Zhao

  2. College of Agronomy, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, 110866, China

    Liwei Wang

  3. Wuchuan Scientific Observing and Experimental Station of Agro-Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, Wuchuan, 011700, China

    Liwei Wang, Zhihua Pan, Peiyi Zhao, Zhiqiang Dong, Jingting Zhang, Guohui Cui, Sen Wang, Guolin Han & hui Zhao

  4. Corn Research Institute of Liaoning Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenyang, 110161, China

    Cheng Wang

  5. Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, 110016, China

    Hui Xu

  6. School of Resources and Environmental, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, China

    Lin Gao

  7. Institute of Resources Environmental and Detection Technology, Inner Mongolia Academy of Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Sciences, Huhhot, 010031, China

    Peiyi Zhao

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Wang, L., Wang, C., Pan, Z. et al. N2O emission characteristics and its affecting factors in rain-fed potato fields in Wuchuan County, China. Int J Biometeorol 61, 911–919 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-016-1271-3

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