Plant Soil Environ., 2017, 63(3):97-104 | DOI: 10.17221/205/2016-PSE

N2O emission and nitrogen and carbon leaching from the soil in relation to long-term and current mineral and organic fertilization - a laboratory studyOriginal Paper

Tomasz SOSULSKI*, Ewa SZARA, Magdalena SZYMAŃSKA, Wojciech STĘPIEŃ
Department of Soil Environment Sciences, Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, Warsaw, Poland

The paper presents the results of a laboratory experiment aimed at the assessment of N2O emissions, NO3-, NH4+ and carbon (C) leaching from agricultural soils subjected to long-term mineral and organic fertilization. Our results show that long-term treatment impacts the N2O emissions from loamy-sand Luvisols to a greater extent than the recent single application of mineral or organic fertilizers. The N2O fluxes from soils with higher Corg content that results from long-term organic fertilization exceed those from soils with lower Corg content subsequent to long-term mineral fertilization. Our research confirms previous reports that the intensity of N2O emission is related to soil moisture. The NO3- leaching depended on the recent application of fertilizers with a stronger influence of single application of NH4NO3 than farmyard manure. Long-term fertilization did not impact the NO3- leaching.

Keywords: short-term fertilization; gas emission; macronutrient, denitrification, nitrification, nitrate

Published: March 31, 2017  Show citation

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SOSULSKI T, SZARA E, SZYMAŃSKA M, STĘPIEŃ W. N2O emission and nitrogen and carbon leaching from the soil in relation to long-term and current mineral and organic fertilization - a laboratory study. Plant Soil Environ. 2017;63(3):97-104. doi: 10.17221/205/2016-PSE.
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