Journal
APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY
Volume 103, Issue -, Pages 101-109Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2016.03.008
Keywords
Paddy soil; Flooding-drying; Micro-sublayer; Nitrifier; Denitrifier
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- National Science Foundation of China [41330856]
- Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB 15020200]
- Ministry of Science and Technology of PR China [2014BAD14B01]
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The flooding-drying cycle can cause obvious increases of nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from paddy soil. However the relationships between N2O flux and N2O concentrations in soil and the microbial driving mechanisms during the flooding-drying process are unclear. In this study, a flooding-drying incubation experiment was carried out with a paddy soil. The topsoil (0-6 cm) was divided into 6 micro-sublayers each of 1 cm depth which were sampled independently. Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) and real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) were employed to determine the community composition and abundance of nitrifiers and denitrifiers, respectively. Results showed that the dynamics of N2O flux were more closely related to the N2O concentrations at 23 cm in comparison with that at 4-5 cm depth in the soil profile. During the peak period of N2O flux, the top three micro-sublayers (0-3 cm) simultaneously harbored significantly higher ammonia oxidizing bacteria (AOB) population sizes, and contained higher nitrate and lower ammonia concentrations. Therefore, the top soil (0-3 cm) possesses a strong ability to produce nitrate substrate for denitrification during the flooding-drying process, and the drying surface soil, with O-2 penetration, favoured N2O generation. In contrast, although the bottom soil (4-6 cm) contained abundant nitrate reductase gene (narG) copy numbers, it maintained low levels of AOB abundance, which could suggest that low nitrifying activity would be the major restriction limiting N2O production in this layer. In conclusion, the flooding-drying process induced significant N2O emissions from the paddy soil, which were closely related to the increasing nitrifying capability in the topsoil within 0-3 cm and the dynamics of N2O concentrations at 2-3 cm depth. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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