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Gross N2O emission and gross N2O uptake in soils under temperate spruce and beech forests

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In this paper, the authors used 15 N 2 O pool dilution method to quantify gross and net NO 3 − emission and uptake in adjacent spruce and beech forests on a Cambisol soil in central Germany.
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Soils are not only a major source but also a potential sink of atmospheric nitrous oxide (N 2 O), a potent greenhouse gas and the most important substance causing stratospheric ozone depletion. Net N 2 O flux at the soil surface is a result of two concurrent processes: gross N 2 O emission and gross N 2 O uptake. Little is known about these processes and their controlling factors because it is only in the last five years that the 15 N 2 O pool dilution method was developed to measure these processes in the field. Here, we used this method to quantify gross N 2 O emission and gross N 2 O uptake in adjacent spruce and beech forests on a Cambisol soil in central Germany. Our results showed that the beech stand had higher soil gross and net N 2 O emissions ( P 2 O emission and gross N 2 O uptake were influenced mainly by soil NO 3 − concentration and soil extractable organic C, respectively. The strong correlation between gross N 2 O emission and net N 2 O fluxes suggests that gross N 2 O emission rather than gross N 2 O uptake drove the net N 2 O flux from the soil. Our study showed the underlying mechanisms and controls of gross N 2 O fluxes, which until now were not quantified in actual field conditions across seasons.

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