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SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 115, Issue -, Pages 337-345Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2017.08.006
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- Max Planck Graduate Centre
- Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (MPGC)
- MPG
- Desert Encroachment in Central Asia Quantification of soil biogenic Nitric Oxide (DEQNO project ) [DFG-MA 4798/1-1]
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Numerous studies have shown that soil moisture controls NO flux from soils. Less is known, however, to what extent microbial N-cycling mediates this control. Does soil moisture control NO release primarily by affecting the physical gas exchange between soil and atmosphere, by modulating microbial activities involved in biotic NO turnover, or by both? Using a novel dynamic chamber system for high-resolution measurement of NO release, we found one or several soil-specific maxima of NO release during dry-out experiments in different soils. A mid-latitude arable soil displayed a single maximum at 0.10 water holding capacity (whc), whereas a dryland farming and a rice paddy soil showed two maxima at 0.65/0.10 and 0.90/0.10 whc, respectively. Transcription of nirS genes in the dryland soil at 0.65 whc was low, but larger than at 0.10 whc, while transcriptional activity of archaeal ammonia oxidizers showed the opposite pattern with higher activity at 0.10 whc, suggesting biogenic NO production at low soil moisture. Our study is a first attempt to link NO emission to soil moisture responses of different microbial groups. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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