What plant functional traits can reduce nitrous oxide emissions from intensively managed grasslands?

• Published in: Global change biology Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. e248 - e258
• Main Authors: Abalos, Diego, Groenigen, Jan Willem, De Deyn, Gerlinde B.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.01.2018
• Subjects: Air Pollutants - chemistry; Air Pollutants - metabolism; Availability; Biomass; biomass production; Climate Change; Climate change mitigation; Emission; Emissions; Fertilizers; Flowers & plants; Frameworks; Functional traits; grasses; Grassland; Grassland management; Grasslands; Greenhouse effect; greenhouse experimentation; greenhouse gas emissions; Greenhouse gases; Leaf area; Mathematical models; Mineralization; Mitigation; Modelling; Monoculture; Monoculture (aquaculture); Nitrogen; nitrogen cycle; Nitrous oxide; Nitrous Oxide - analysis; Nitrous Oxide - metabolism; Plant species; Plant traits; Plant-microbe interactions; Plants (botany); Plants - metabolism; Poaceae - metabolism; Soil; Soil - chemistry; Soil conservation; Species; Species Specificity; structural equation modeling; Uptake; plant-microbe interactions; nitrous oxide; functional traits; nitrogen; grassland; plant traits

Plant species exert a dominant control over the nitrogen (N) cycle of natural and managed grasslands. Although in intensively managed systems that receive large external N inputs the emission of the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N2O) is a crucial component of this cycle, a mechanistic relatio...