Linking N2O emissions from biochar-amended soil to the structure and function of the N-cycling microbial community

• Published in: The ISME Journal Vol. 8; no. 3; pp. 660 - 674
• Main Authors: Harter, Johannes, Krause, Hans-Martin, Schuettler, Stefanie, Ruser, Reiner, Fromme, Markus, Scholten, Thomas, Kappler, Andreas, Behrens, Sebastian
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.03.2014; Oxford University Press; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 631/326/171/1818; 631/326/2565/855; 631/326/47; Anthropogenic factors; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Charcoal; Charcoal - chemistry; Charcoal - metabolism; Community structure; Crop yield; Denitrification; Ecology; Emissions; Evolutionary Biology; Farm buildings; Fertilizer application; Fertilizers; Greenhouse gases; High temperature; Life Sciences; Microbial Ecology; Microbial Genetics and Genomics; Microbiology; Microorganisms; Nitrification; Nitrogen - chemistry; Nitrogen cycle; Nitrogen fixation; Nitrous oxide; Nitrous Oxide - metabolism; Original; original-article; Pyrolysis; Saturated soils; Soil - chemistry; Soil amendment; Soil Microbiology; Soil quality; soil microbial community; biochar; O emission; nitrous oxide; nitrification; nitrogen cycle; denitrification; N; greenhouse gas

Nitrous oxide (N 2 O) contributes 8% to global greenhouse gas emissions. Agricultural sources represent about 60% of anthropogenic N 2 O emissions. Most agricultural N 2 O emissions are due to increased fertilizer application. A considerable fraction of nitrogen fertilizers are converted to N 2 O by...