Effects of temperature and soil moisture on gross nitrification and denitrification rates of a Chinese lowland paddy field soil

• Published in: Paddy and water environment Vol. 16; no. 4; pp. 687 - 698
• Main Authors: Tan, Xuezhi, Shao, Dongguo, Gu, Wenquan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo Springer Japan 01.10.2018; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Agriculture; Barometers; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Cores; Crop production; Denitrification; Drying; Ecotoxicology; Geoecology/Natural Processes; Hydrogeology; Hydrology/Water Resources; Life Sciences; Moisture content; Nitrification; Nitrogen; Oryza; Profiles; Rice fields; Soil; Soil conditions; Soil layers; Soil moisture; Soil profiles; Soil properties; Soil Science & Conservation; Soil temperature; Soil water; Soils; Temperature effects; Water content; N nitrification; N denitrification; Soil moisture; Paddy soils; Soil temperature

Alternate wetting and drying (AWD) irrigation is widely adopted to save water in rice production. AWD practice shifts lowland paddy fields from being continuously anaerobic to being alternately anaerobic and aerobic, thus affecting nitrogen (N) transformations in paddy field soils. Using the baromet...