Complete ammonia oxidization in agricultural soils : High ammonia fertilizer loss but low N2 O production

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Veröffentlicht in:Global change biology. - 1999. - 29(2023), 7 vom: 20. Apr., Seite 1984-1997
1. Verfasser: Jiang, Liping (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Yu, Jie, Wang, Shanyun, Wang, Xiaomin, Schwark, Lorenz, Zhu, Guibing
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2023
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Global change biology
Schlagworte:Journal Article agricultural sustainable development ammonia fertilizer loss complete ammonia oxidation farmland fertilizer management soil pH Soil Ammonia 7664-41-7 Fertilizers
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Zusammenfassung:© 2023 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
The contribution of agriculture to the sustainable development goals requires climate-smart and profitable farm innovations. Increasing the ammonia fertilizer applications to meet the global food demands results in high agricultural costs, environmental quality deterioration, and global warming, without a significant increase in crop yield. Here, we reported that a third microbial ammonia oxidation process, complete ammonia oxidation (comammox), is contributing to a significant ammonia fertilizer loss (41.9 ± 4.8%) at the rate of 3.53 ± 0.55 mg N kg-1 day-1 in agricultural soils around the world. The contribution of comammox to ammonia fertilizer loss, occurring mainly in surface agricultural soil profiles (0-0.2 m), was equivalent to that of bacterial ammonia oxidation (48.6 ± 4.5%); both processes were significantly more important than archaeal ammonia oxidation (9.5 ± 3.6%). In contrast, comammox produced less N2 O (0.98 ± 0.44 μg N kg-1 day-1 , 11.7 ± 3.1%), comparable to that produced by archaeal ammonia oxidation (16.4 ± 4.4%) but significantly lower than that of bacterial ammonia oxidation (72.0 ± 5.1%). The efficiency of ammonia conversion to N2 O by comammox (0.02 ± 0.01%) was evidently lower than that of bacterial (0.24 ± 0.06%) and archaeal (0.16 ± 0.04%) ammonia oxidation. The comammox rate increased with increasing soil pH values, which is the only physicochemical characteristic that significantly influenced both comammox bacterial abundance and rates. Ammonia fertilizer loss, dominated by comammox and bacterial ammonia oxidation, was more intense in soils with pH >6.5 than in soils with pH <6.5. Our results revealed that comammox plays a vital role in ammonia fertilizer loss and sustainable development in agroecosystems that have been previously overlooked for a long term
Beschreibung:Date Completed 07.03.2023
Date Revised 26.05.2023
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status MEDLINE
ISSN:1365-2486
DOI:10.1111/gcb.16586