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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 30, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016164
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[1] We conducted an experiment on sand and clay tropical forest soils to test the short-term effect of root mortality on the soil-atmosphere flux of nitrous oxide, nitric oxide, methane, and carbon dioxide. We induced root mortality by isolating blocks of land to 1 m using trenching and root exclusion screening. Gas fluxes were measured weekly for ten weeks following the trenching treatment. For nitrous oxide there was a highly significant increase in soil-atmosphere flux over the ten weeks following treatment for trenched plots compared to control plots. N2O flux averaged 37.5 and 18.5 ng N cm(-2) h(-1) from clay trenched and control plots and 4.7 and 1.5 ng N cm(-2) h(-1) from sand trenched and control plots. In contrast, there was no effect for soil-atmosphere flux of nitric oxide, carbon dioxide, or methane.
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