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Nitrous oxide emissions from tea garden soil following the addition of urea and rapeseed cake

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Abstract

Purpose

Tea gardens, being a key agroecosystem type, are an important source of nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions. However, main factors that regulate N2O emissions following urea and organic matter amendments have yet to be clarified.

Materials and methods

To investigate the influence of different fertilization management measures on N2O emissions in tea garden soil, a 50-day laboratory incubation experiment was conducted. Five treatments were designed for this experiment: control (CK), urea (U), rapeseed cake (R), urea + rapeseed cake (2:1, UR1), and urea + rapeseed cake (1:2, UR2).

Results and discussion

N2O emission flux in the R treatment peaked at 14.12 μg kg−1 h−1 on day 19, which occurred later than the UR1, UR2, and U treatments. Cumulative N2O emissions from the R and UR2 treatments were 6073 and 4296 μg kg−1, respectively, which were greater by a factor of 11.2 and 7.9, respectively, compared to the U treatment. Moreover, N2O emissions of the UR1 and UR2 treatments were significantly lower than the R treatment. Additionally, N2O emissions were also significantly positively correlated to pH levels and microbial biomass carbon (MBC) content. MBC content had the most direct and greatest influence on soil N2O emissions, indicating that MBC could be the key limiting factor for N2O emissions in this experiment.

Conclusions

A single application of rapeseed cake caused an increase in N2O emissions, whereas the combined application of rapeseed cake and a synthetic N fertilizer (urea) caused a decrease in N2O emissions. Results from this study offer potential strategies to mitigate soil N2O emissions from tea garden agroecosystems through improved field fertilization management.

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Acknowledgments

We are very grateful to Brian Doonan (from Canada) for polishing the language of the manuscript.

Funding

This study was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41671406 and 41571314), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) “Light of West China” program (XAB2016A03), and the State Key Research & Development Project of China (2017YFD800102).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ministry of Water Resources, Yangling, 712100, People’s Republic of China

    Jialuo Yu, Wenliang Ju & Linchuan Fang

  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Bei**g, 100049, People’s Republic of China

    Jialuo Yu & Wenliang Ju

  3. Key Laboratory of Arable Land Conservation (Middle and Lower Reaches of Yangtse River), Ministry of Agriculture, College of Resources and Environment, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, People’s Republic of China

    Shan Lin

  4. Department of Soil Science, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

    Muhammad Shaaban

  5. CAS Center for Excellence in Quaternary Science and Global Change, Chinese Academy of Sciences, **’an, 710061, People’s Republic of China

    Linchuan Fang

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Yu, J., Lin, S., Shaaban, M. et al. Nitrous oxide emissions from tea garden soil following the addition of urea and rapeseed cake. J Soils Sediments 20, 3330–3339 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11368-020-02641-z

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