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Nitrification and denitrification as sources of gaseous nitrogen emission from different forest soils in Changbai Mountain

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The contributions of nitrification and denitrification to N2O and N2 emissions from four forest soils on northern slop of Changbai Mountain were measured with acetylene inhibition methods. In incubation experiments, 0.06% and 3% C2H2 were used to inhibit nitrification and denitrification in these soils, respectively. Both nitrification and denitification existed in these soils except tundra soil, where only denitrification was found. The annually averaged rates of nitrification and denitrification in mountain dark brown forest soil were much higher than that in other three soils. In mountain brown coniferous soil, contributions of different processes to gaseous nitrogen emissions were Denitrification N2O>nitrification N2O>Denitrification N2. The same sequence exists in mountain soddy soil as that in the mountain brown coniferous soil. The sequence in mountain tundra soil was Denitrification N2O>Denitrification N2.

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    Xu Hui, Chen Guan-xiong, Li A-na, Han Shi-jie & Huang Guo-hong

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Foundation item: This paper was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.49701016) and the “Hundred Scientists” Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Biography: XU Hui (1967-), male, Ph. Doctor, associate research fellow in Laboratory of Ecological Process of Trace Substance in Terrestrial Ecosystem, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of sciences, Shenyang 110015, P. R. China.

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Hui, X., Guan-xiong, C., A-na, L. et al. Nitrification and denitrification as sources of gaseous nitrogen emission from different forest soils in Changbai Mountain. Journal of Forestry Research 11, 177–182 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02855520

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