{"type": "FeatureCollection", "features": [{"id": "10.1038/srep14378", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:16:51Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-09-23", "title": "Effects Of Nitrogen And Phosphorus Additions On Soil Microbial Biomass And Community Structure In Two Reforested Tropical Forests", "description": "Abstract<p>Elevated nitrogen (N) deposition may aggravate phosphorus (P) deficiency in forests in the warm humid regions of China. To our knowledge, the interactive effects of long-term N deposition and P availability on soil microorganisms in tropical replanted forests remain unclear. We conducted an N and P manipulation experiment with four treatments: control, N addition (15\uffe2\uff80\uff89g N m\uffe2\uff88\uff922\uffc2\uffb7yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921), P addition (15\uffe2\uff80\uff89g P m\uffe2\uff88\uff922\uffc2\uffb7yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921) and N and P addition (15\uffe2\uff80\uff89+\uffe2\uff80\uff8915\uffe2\uff80\uff89g N and P m\uffe2\uff88\uff922\uffc2\uffb7yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921, respectively) in disturbed (planted pine forest with recent harvests of understory vegetation and litter) and rehabilitated (planted with pine, but mixed with broadleaf returning by natural succession) forests in southern China. Nitrogen addition did not significantly affect soil microbial biomass, but significantly decreased the abundance of gram-negative bacteria PLFAs in both forest types. Microbial biomass increased significantly after P addition in the disturbed forest but not in the rehabilitated forest. No interactions between N and P additions on soil microorganisms were observed in either forest type. Our results suggest that microbial growth in replanted forests of southern China may be limited by P rather than by N and this P limitation may be greater in disturbed forests.</p>", "keywords": ["China", "Principal Component Analysis", "Nitrates", "Rainforest", "Nitrogen", "Microbiota", "Fatty Acids", "Forestry", "Phosphorus", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Gram-Positive Bacteria", "Article", "Carbon Cycle", "Phosphates", "Multidisciplinary Sciences", "Soil", "Gram-Negative Bacteria", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Biomass", "Fertilizers", "Ecosystem", "Soil Microbiology"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1038/srep14378"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Scientific%20Reports", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1038/srep14378", "name": "item", "description": "10.1038/srep14378", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1038/srep14378"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-09-23T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1038/srep42247", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:16:51Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-02-08", "title": "Nitrate Leaching In A Winter Wheat-Summer Maize Rotation On A Calcareous Soil As Affected By Nitrogen And Straw Management", "description": "Abstract<p>Nitrate leaching is one of the most important pathways of nitrogen (N) loss which leads to groundwater contamination or surface water eutrophication. Clarifying the rates, controlling factors and characteristics of nitrate leaching is the pre-requisite for proposing effective mitigation strategies. We investigated the effects of interactions among chemical N fertilizer, straw and manure applications on nitrogen leaching in an intensively managed calcareous Fluvo-aquic soil with winter wheat-summer maize cropping rotations on the North China Plain from October 2010 to September 2013 using ceramic suction cups and seepage water calculations based on a long-term field experiment. Annual nitrate leaching reached 38\uffe2\uff80\uff9360\uffe2\uff80\uff89kg\uffe2\uff80\uff89N ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921 from conventional N managements, but declined by 32\uffe2\uff80\uff9371% due to optimum N, compost manure or municipal waste treatments, respectively. Nitrate leaching concentrated in the summer maize season, and fewer leaching events with high amounts are the characteristics of nitrate leaching in this region. Overuse of chemical N fertilizers, high net mineralization and nitrification, together with predominance of rainfall in the summer season with light soil texture are the main controlling factors responsible for the high nitrate leaching loss in this soil-crop-climatic system.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Agricultural Irrigation", "Nitrates", "Nitrogen", "Rain", "Agriculture", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Zea mays", "Article", "6. Clean water", "Soil", "13. Climate action", "Regression Analysis", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Seasons", "Fertilizers", "Triticum"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1038/srep42247"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Scientific%20Reports", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1038/srep42247", "name": "item", "description": "10.1038/srep42247", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1038/srep42247"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2017-02-08T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1046/j.1365-2486.2001.00433.x", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:16:54Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2003-03-11", "title": "Raised Atmospheric Co2 Levels And Increased N Deposition Cause Shifts In Plant Species Composition And Production In Sphagnum Bogs", "description": "Abstract<p>Part of the missing sink in the global CO2 budget has been attributed to the positive effects of CO2 fertilization and N deposition on carbon sequestration in Northern Hemisphere terrestrial ecosystems. The genus Sphagnum is one of the most important groups of plant species sequestrating carbon in temperate and northern bog ecosystems, because of the low decomposability of the dead material it produces. The effects of raised CO2 and increased atmospheric N deposition on growth of Sphagnum and other plants were studied in bogs at four sites across Western Europe. Contrary to expectations, elevated CO2 did not significantly affect Sphagnum biomass growth. Increased N deposition reduced Sphagnum mass growth, because it increased the cover of vascular plants and the tall moss Polytrichum strictum. Such changes in plant species composition may decrease carbon sequestration in Sphagnum\uffe2\uff80\uff90dominated bog ecosystems.</p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "bog plants", "nitrates", "13. Climate action", "emission", "carbon dioxide", "greenhouse effect", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2486.2001.00433.x"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Global%20Change%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1046/j.1365-2486.2001.00433.x", "name": "item", "description": "10.1046/j.1365-2486.2001.00433.x", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1046/j.1365-2486.2001.00433.x"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2001-05-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1051/agro/2009046", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:16:56Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2010-02-18", "title": "Soil And Vegetable Crop Response To Addition Of Different Levels Of Municipal Waste Compost Under Mediterranean Greenhouse Conditions", "description": "In the soil thematic strategy of the European Union Commission, a soil organic carbon content of 2% is indicated as a threshold below which a reduction in soil chemical, biological and physical fertility, and increase in erosion can be observed. Composting of organic matter 'exogenous' to soil (such as from municipalities, industries and agriculture sources) is recommended as an effective way to ensure the return of biomass to soil and the return of the soil organic matter losses. The composting of municipal solid wastes is seen as a strategy to divert organic waste materials from landfills. A municipal source-separated solid waste compost was used in a study carried out during 2003-2006 in Southern Italy. An annual tomato-snap bean-lettuce rotation was planted on a sandy loam soil with 26 g kg\u22121 organic carbon under greenhouse conditions. Different rates of compost (15-30-45 t ha\u22121 on a dry weight basis) and combinations of compost at a rate of 15 t ha\u22121 with reduced doses of mineral N fertilizer (1/2 or 1/4 of optimal supply) were compared with an untreated control and a N, P, K fertilized control. We found that: (1) increasing compost rates produced increasing positive soil organic carbon balances. The C conversion efficiency was 23 and 36% with 15 and 30 t ha\u22121, respectively, but declined to 28% with the highest rate of compost. Indeed, the higher the compost amounts applied, the higher the soil organic carbon losses. (2) Under tunnel-greenhouse conditions, all the fertilization strategies, except compost at a rate of 15 t ha\u22121, increased soil nitrate concentrations by up 100 to 400 mg kg\u22121 dry weight of soil, particularly in the spring-summer seasons. In the same period, nitrate contents in the untreated control reached 100 mg kg\u22121. (3) The average yield of marketable tomato for the four-year period was 114 t ha\u22121 and did not vary significantly among treatments. No differences in snap bean yields were detected among the fertilization treatments. In lettuce cultivation, however, 30 and 45 t ha\u22121 of compost yielded more than other treatments. In the tunnel-greenhouse environment, a high initial content of soil organic matter resulted in high vegetable yields over all four years, even without mineral or organic fertilizer supply. However, among the various fertilization strategies, the best solution able to restore annual soil carbon mineralization was the supply of 15 t ha\u22121 of compost. In addition, this rate reduced the hazards linked to the high release of nitrates in soil caused by 30 and 45 t ha\u22121 rates of compost or mineral fertilization.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Compost amendment - Soil C balance - Soil nitrates - Vegetable crops - Greenhouse - Soil enzyme activity", "[SDV.SA] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences", "soil C balance", "compost amendment", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "12. Responsible consumption", "[SDV.EE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology", " environment", "soil enzyme activity", "13. Climate action", "greenhouse", "11. Sustainability", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "vegetable crops", "soil nitrates", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1051/agro/2009046"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Agronomy%20for%20Sustainable%20Development", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1051/agro/2009046", "name": "item", "description": "10.1051/agro/2009046", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1051/agro/2009046"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2010-09-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1051/agro:2003428", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:16:56Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2007-02-09", "title": "Drainage Runoff And Migration Of Mineral Elements In Organic And Conventional Cropping Systems", "description": "Open AccessIn the present investigation, organic and intensive cropping systems were compared on small autonomous drainage plots in limed Luvisoils and Cambisoils as well as non-acid Cambisoils during the period 1995-1998. In the intensive cropping system with balanced nutrient application, the yield of all crops was 38-77% higher than in the organic cropping system. Cropping intensity had no influence on mineral concentration in drainage water, which depended on geochemical soil media. The concentrations of Cl$^-$ and NO$_3^-$ in drainage water were, respectively, 8-22 and 24-80% higher than in the organic system. But at low N application, improvement of fertilisation efficiency increased crop yield and decreased nitrate leaching at the same time. The leached amount of solutes depended mainly upon drainage runoff, which was 6-57% lower in the intensive cropping system than in the organic one, and much less upon its concentration. From this study, organic agriculture has no essential advantage compared with intensive agriculture, considering the amount of leached elements and compounds, and secondarily, crop productivity.", "keywords": ["lessivage", "[SDV.SA] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences", "yield<br>---<br>agriculture intensive", "organic agriculture", "rendement", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "01 natural sciences", "fertilisation", "intensive agriculture", "leaching", "[SDV.EE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology", " environment", "agriculture biologique", "nitrate", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Antanas Sigitas Sileika, Saulius Guzys,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1051/agro:2003428"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Agronomie", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1051/agro:2003428", "name": "item", "description": "10.1051/agro:2003428", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1051/agro:2003428"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2003-11-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1063/1.4984416", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:16:58Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-06-28", "title": "Aluminide slurry coatings for protection of ferritic steel in molten nitrate corrosion for concentrated solar power technology", "description": "Molten nitrates can be employed as heat storage fluids in solar concentration power plants. However molten nitrates are corrosive and if operating temperatures are raised to increase efficiencies, the corrosion rates will also increase. High temperature corrosion resistant coatings based on Al have demonstrated excellent results in other sectors such as gas turbines. Aluminide slurry coated and uncoated P92 steel specimens were exposed to the so called Solar Salt (industrial grade), a binary eutectic mixture of 60 % NaNO3 \u2013 40 % KNO3, in air for 2000 hours at 550\u00b0C and 580\u00b0C in order to analyze their behavior as candidates to be used in future solar concentration power plants employing molten nitrates as heat transfer fluids. Coated ferritic steels constitute a lower cost technology than Ni based alloy. Two different coating morphologies resulting from two heat treatment performed at 700 and 1050\u00b0C after slurry application were tested. The coated systems exhibited excellent corrosion resistance at both te...", "keywords": ["Corrosion", "Aluminide coatings", "Molten nitrates", "13. Climate action", "0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "0210 nano-technology", "7. Clean energy", "6. Clean water", "concentrated solar power"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://aip.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/1.4984416"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4984416"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/AIP%20Conference%20Proceedings", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1063/1.4984416", "name": "item", "description": "10.1063/1.4984416", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1063/1.4984416"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2017-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1063/1.5067095", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:16:58Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-11-08", "title": "Protective coatings for high temperature molten salt heat storage systems in solar concentration power plants", "description": "Three Cr ferritic/martensitic containing-steels (P91, VM12 and MarBN) and one carbon steel (A516) were exposed to a mixture of molten nitrates salt (Solar Salt) at 580\u00b0C. P91 and MarBN were also exposed to a newly developed ternary carbonate eutectic salt mixture at 650\u00b0C under static conditions. In contact with molten nitrates, the uncoated substrates developed a complex, fast growing multilayered oxide scale, which includes NaFeO2. Significant spallation took place for all substrates. However, A516 exhibited lower corrosion rates and developed a more compact Fe2O3/Fe3O4 slower growing scale. Substrate nitriding occurred on the ferritic steels. On molten carbonates at 650\u00b0C the uncoated steels also corroded heavily and the formed oxide contained LiFeO2. Cr was found in the salts exposed to the Cr containing uncoated steels, which likely implies chromate dissolution in the melts as a result of a basic fluxing mechanism, typical of molten salt corrosion. Al slurry coated samples were also tested by immersion in both salts. All the tested coated samples performed well as no evidence of significant weight variation or substrate attack could be observed. The protective nature of these coatings may be attributed to the formation of NaAlO2. Some coating-substrate interdiffusion occurred, to a higher extent on aluminized A516. The Al richest phases (FeAl3, Fe2Al5) transformed into the lower Al containing phase FeAl.", "keywords": ["Corrosion", "Molten nitrates", "02 engineering and technology", "0210 nano-technology", "7. Clean energy", "concentrated solar power"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://aip.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/1.5067095"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5067095"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/AIP%20Conference%20Proceedings", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1063/1.5067095", "name": "item", "description": "10.1063/1.5067095", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1063/1.5067095"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1073/pnas.0600359103", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:17:02Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2006-03-14", "title": "Reduced Nitrate Leaching And Enhanced Denitrifier Activity And Efficiency In Organically Fertilized Soils", "description": "<p>             Conventional agriculture has improved in crop yield but at large costs to the environment, particularly off-site pollution from mineral N fertilizers. In response to environmental concerns, organic agriculture has become an increasingly popular option. One component of organic agriculture that remains in question is whether it can reduce agricultural N losses to groundwater and the atmosphere relative to conventional agriculture. Here we report reduced N pollution from organic and integrated farming systems compared with a conventional farming system. We evaluated differences in denitrification potential and a suite of other soil biological and chemical properties in soil samples taken from organic, integrated, and conventional treatments in an experimental apple orchard. Organically farmed soils exhibited higher potential denitrification rates, greater denitrification efficiency, higher organic matter, and greater microbial activity than conventionally farmed soils. The observed differences in denitrifier function were then assessed under field conditions after fertilization. N             2             O emissions were not significantly different among treatments; however, N             2             emissions were highest in organic plots. Annual nitrate leaching was 4.4\uffe2\uff80\uff935.6 times higher in conventional plots than in organic plots, with the integrated plots in between. This study demonstrates that organic and integrated fertilization practices support more active and efficient denitrifier communities, shift the balance of N             2             emissions and nitrate losses, and reduce environmentally damaging nitrate losses. Although this study specifically examines a perennial orchard system, the ecological and biogeochemical processes we evaluated are present in all agroecosystems, and the reductions in nitrate loss in this study could also be achievable in other cropping systems.           </p>", "keywords": ["Nitrates - metabolism", "2. Zero hunger", "Nitrates", "Soil Pollutants - analysis", "Nitrates - analysis", "Agriculture", "Fertilizers - analysis", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Soil - analysis", "01 natural sciences", "630", "6. Clean water", "Soil", "13. Climate action", "Soil Pollutants - metabolism", "Soil Pollutants", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Environmental Pollution", "Fertilizers", "Ecosystem", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Kramer, Sasha B, Reganold, John P, Glover, Jerry D, Bohannan, Brendan J M, Mooney, Harold A,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0600359103"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Proceedings%20of%20the%20National%20Academy%20of%20Sciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1073/pnas.0600359103", "name": "item", "description": "10.1073/pnas.0600359103", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1073/pnas.0600359103"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2006-03-13T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1079/bjn20051517", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:17:03Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2005-11-03", "title": "Effect Of Ruminal Administration Of Escherichia Coli Wild Type Or A Genetically Modified Strain With Enhanced High Nitrite Reductase Activity On Methane Emission And Nitrate Toxicity In Nitrate-Infused Sheep", "description": "<p>The effects of two kinds ofEscherichia coli(E. coli) strain, wild-typeE. coliW3110 andE. colinir-Ptac, which has enhanced NO2reduction activity, on oral CH4emission and NO3toxicity in NO3-treated sheep were assessed in a respiratory hood system in a 4\uffc3\uff976 Youden square design. NO3(1\uffc2\uffb73g NaNO3/kg0\uffc2\uffb775body weight) and/orE. colistrains were delivered into the rumen through a fistula as a single dose 30min after the morning meal.Escherichia colicells were inoculated for sheep to provide an initialE. colicell density of optical density at 660nm of 2, which corresponded to 2\uffc3\uff971010cells/ml. The six treatments consisted of saline,E. coliW3110,E. colinir-Ptac, NO3, NO3plusE. coliW3110, and NO3plusE. colinir-Ptac. CH4emission from sheep was reduced by the inoculation ofE. coliW3110 orE. colinir-Ptac by 6% and 12%, respectively. NO3markedly inhibited CH4emission from sheep. Compared with sheep given NO3alone, the inoculation ofE. coliW3110 to NO3-infused sheep lessened ruminal and plasma toxic NO2accumulation and blood methaemoglobin production, while keeping ruminal methanogenesis low. Ruminal and plasma toxic NO2accumulation and blood methaemoglobin production in sheep were unaffected by the inoculation ofE. colinir-Ptac. These results suggest that ruminal methanogenesis may be reduced by the inoculation ofE. coliW3110 orE. colinir-Ptac. The inoculation ofE. coliW3110 may abate NO3toxicity when NO3is used to inhibit CH4emission from ruminants.</p>", "keywords": ["Male", "2. Zero hunger", "Nitrates", "Rumen", "Sheep", "Metabolic Clearance Rate", "0402 animal and dairy science", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Carbon Dioxide", "Nitrate Reductase", "3. Good health", "Oxygen Consumption", "Fermentation", "Escherichia coli", "Animals", "Infusions", " Parenteral", "Methane", "Methemoglobin", "Nitrites"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Junichi Takahashi, I. Shinzato, Y. Asakura, C. Sar, B. Pen, R. Morikawa, B. Mwenya, A. Tsujimoto, K. Kuwaki, K. Takaura, N. Isogai, Yasuhiko Toride,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1079/bjn20051517"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/British%20Journal%20of%20Nutrition", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1079/bjn20051517", "name": "item", "description": "10.1079/bjn20051517", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1079/bjn20051517"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2005-11-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1080/09064710.2014.919347", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:17:08Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-06-05", "title": "Summer Fallow Soil Management - Impact On Rainfed Winter Wheat", "description": "Summer fallow soil management is an important approach to improve soil and crop management in dryland areas. In the Loess Plateau regions, the annual precipitation is low and varies annually and seasonally, with more than 60% concentrated in the summer months from July to September, which is the summer fallow period in the winter wheat-summer fallow cropping system. With bare fallow in summer as a control, a 3-year location-fixed field experiment was conducted in the Loess Plateau to investigate the effects of wheat straw retention (SR), green manure (GM) planting, and their combination on soil water retention (WR) during summer fallow, winter wheat yield, and crop water use and nitrogen (N) uptake. The results showed that SR increased soil WR during summer fallow by 20 mm on average compared with the control over 3 experimental years but reduced the grain yield by 8% in the third year and the grain N content by 6\u201315% in all 3 years. In contrast, GM planting markedly reduced soil WR by 16 mm and 33 mm in ...", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "dryland soil", "green manure", "nitrate nitrogen", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "straw retention", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "water retention"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1080/09064710.2014.919347"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Acta%20Agriculturae%20Scandinavica%2C%20Section%20B%20%E2%80%94%20Soil%20%26amp%3B%20Plant%20Science", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1080/09064710.2014.919347", "name": "item", "description": "10.1080/09064710.2014.919347", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1080/09064710.2014.919347"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-06-05T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1100/tsw.2001.90", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:17:19Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2005-03-23", "title": "Nitrogen Use And Carbon Sequestered By Corn Rotations In The Northern Corn Belt, U.S.", "description": "<p>Diversified crop rotation may improve production efficiency, reduce fertilizer nitrogen (N) requirements for corn (Zea mays L.), and increase soil carbon (C) storage. Objectives were to determine effect of rotation and fertilizer N on soil C sequestration and N use. An experiment was started in 1990 on a Barnes clay loam (U.S. soil taxonomy: fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Calcic Hapludoll) near Brookings, SD. Tillage systems for corn\uffe2\uff80\uff93soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merr.) rotations were conventional tillage (CS) and ridge tillage (CSr). Rotations under conventional tillage were continuous corn (CC), and a 4-year rotation of corn\uffe2\uff80\uff93soybean\uffe2\uff80\uff93wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) companion-seeded with alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.)\uffe2\uff80\uff93alfalfa hay (CSWA). Additional treatments included plots of perennial warm season, cool season, and mixtures of warm and cool season grasses. N treatments for corn were corn fertilized for a grain yield of 8.5 Mg ha\uffe2\uff80\uff931(highN), of 5.3 Mg ha\uffe2\uff80\uff931(midN), and with no N fertilizer (noN). Total (1990\uffe2\uff80\uff932000) corn grain yield was not different among rotations at 80.8 Mg ha\uffe2\uff80\uff931under highN. Corn yield differences among rotations increased with decreased fertilizer N. Total (1990\uffe2\uff80\uff932000) corn yields with noN fertilizer were 69 Mg ha\uffe2\uff80\uff931under CSWA, 53 Mg ha\uffe2\uff80\uff931under CS, and 35 Mg ha\uffe2\uff80\uff931under CC. Total N attributed to rotations (noN treatments) was 0.68 Mg ha\uffe2\uff80\uff931under CSWA, 0.61 Mg ha\uffe2\uff80\uff931under CS, and 0.28 Mg ha\uffe2\uff80\uff931under CC. Plant carbon return depended on rotation and N. In the past 10 years, total C returned from above- ground biomass was 29.8 Mg ha\uffe2\uff80\uff931under CC with highN, and 12.8 Mg ha\uffe2\uff80\uff931under CSWA with noN. Soil C in the top 15 cm significantly increased (0.7 g kg\uffe2\uff80\uff931) with perennial grass cover, remained unchanged under CSr, and decreased (1.7 g kg\uffe2\uff80\uff931) under CC, CS, and CSWA. C to N ratio significantly narrowed (\uffe2\uff80\uff930.75) with CSWA and widened (0.72) under grass. Diversified rotations have potential to increase N use efficiency and reduce fertilizer N input for corn. However, within a corn production system using conventional tillage and producing (averaged across rotation and N treatment) about 6.2-Mg ha\uffe2\uff80\uff931corn grain per year, we found no gain in soil C after 10 years regardless of rotation.</p>", "keywords": ["Crops", " Agricultural", "2. Zero hunger", "Technology", "Nitrates", "Nitrogen", "T", "Science", "Q", "R", "Agriculture", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Zea mays", "Carbon", "United States", "Time", "Soil", "Medicine", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Research Article"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Thomas E. Schumacher, Merle F. Vigil, Joseph L. Pikul,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2001.90"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/The%20Scientific%20World%20JOURNAL", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1100/tsw.2001.90", "name": "item", "description": "10.1100/tsw.2001.90", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1100/tsw.2001.90"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2001-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/gcb.14644", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:17:29Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-04-07", "title": "A critical review of the impacts of cover crops on nitrogen leaching, net greenhouse gas balance and crop productivity", "description": "Abstract<p>Cover crops play an increasingly important role in improving soil quality, reducing agricultural inputs and improving environmental sustainability. The main objectives of this critical global review and systematic analysis were to assess cover crop practices in the context of their impacts on nitrogen leaching, net greenhouse gas balances (NGHGB) and crop productivity. Only studies that investigated the impacts of cover crops and measured one or a combination of nitrogen leaching, soil organic carbon (SOC), nitrous oxide (N2O), grain yield and nitrogen in grain of primary crop, and had a control treatment were included in the analysis. Long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term studies were uncommon, with most data coming from studies lasting 2\uffe2\uff80\uff933\uffc2\uffa0years. The literature search resulted in 106 studies carried out at 372 sites and covering different countries, climatic zones and management. Our analysis demonstrates that cover crops significantly (p\uffc2\uffa0&lt;\uffc2\uffa00.001) decreased N leaching and significantly (p\uffc2\uffa0&lt;\uffc2\uffa00.001) increased SOC sequestration without having significant (p\uffc2\uffa0&gt;\uffc2\uffa00.05) effects on direct N2O emissions. Cover crops could mitigate the NGHGB by 2.06\uffc2\uffa0\uffc2\uffb1\uffc2\uffa02.10\uffc2\uffa0Mg CO2\uffe2\uff80\uff90eq\uffc2\uffa0ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921\uffc2\uffa0year\uffe2\uff88\uff921. One of the potential disadvantages of cover crops identified was the reduction in grain yield of the primary crop by \uffe2\uff89\uff884%, compared to the control treatment. This drawback could be avoided by selecting mixed cover crops with a range of legumes and non\uffe2\uff80\uff90legumes, which increased the yield by \uffe2\uff89\uff8813%. These advantages of cover crops justify their widespread adoption. However, management practices in relation to cover crops will need to be adapted to specific soil, management and regional climatic conditions.</p>", "keywords": ["Crops", " Agricultural", "net greenhouse gas balance", "330", "Supplementary Data", "Nitrogen", "QH301 Biology", "Supplementary data available", "12. Responsible consumption", "Nitrous oxide emissions", "QH301", "Greenhouse Gases", "Soil", "N content", "nitrate", "C sequestration", "N leaching", "Environmental Chemistry", "General Environmental Science", "NE/M019691/1", "2. Zero hunger", "Global and Planetary Change", "Catch crop", "Ecology", "Soil organic carbon", "green manure", "Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)", "Research Review", "Agriculture", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "yield", "Crop Production", "13. Climate action", "N in grain", "Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)", "Cover crop", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "BB/N013484/1", "BB/N013468/1"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14644"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Global%20Change%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/gcb.14644", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/gcb.14644", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/gcb.14644"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-05-13T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1093/femsle/fnad093", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:17:14Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-09-12", "title": "Alcohols as inhibitors of ammonia oxidizing archaea and bacteria", "description": "Abstract                <p>Ammonia oxidizers are key players in the global nitrogen cycle and are responsible for the oxidation of ammonia to nitrite, which is further oxidized to nitrate by other microorganisms. Their activity can lead to adverse effects on some human-impacted environments, including water pollution through leaching of nitrate and emissions of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N2O). Ammonia monooxygenase (AMO) is the key enzyme in microbial ammonia oxidation and shared by all groups of aerobic ammonia oxidizers. The AMO has not been purified in an active form, and much of what is known about its potential structure and function comes from studies on its interactions with inhibitors. The archaeal AMO is less well studied as ammonia oxidizing archaea were discovered much more recently than their bacterial counterparts. The inhibition of ammonia oxidation by aliphatic alcohols (C1-C8) using the model terrestrial ammonia oxidizing archaeon \uffe2\uff80\uff98Candidatus Nitrosocosmicus franklandus\uffe2\uff80\uff99 C13 and the ammonia oxidizing bacterium Nitrosomonas europaea was examined in order to expand knowledge about the range of inhibitors of ammonia oxidizers. Methanol was the most potent specific inhibitor of the AMO in both ammonia oxidizers, with half-maximal inhibitory concentrations (IC50) of 0.19 and 0.31\uffe2\uff80\uff89mM, respectively. The inhibition was AMO-specific in \uffe2\uff80\uff98Ca. N. franklandus\uffe2\uff80\uff99 C13 in the presence of C1-C2 alcohols, and in N. europaea in the presence of C1-C3 alcohols. Higher chain-length alcohols caused non-specific inhibition and also inhibited hydroxylamine oxidation. Ethanol was tolerated by \uffe2\uff80\uff98Ca. N. franklandus\uffe2\uff80\uff99 C13 at a higher threshold concentration than other chain-length alcohols, with 80\uffe2\uff80\uff89mM ethanol being required for complete inhibition of ammonia oxidation.</p", "keywords": ["Nitrates", "Bacteria", "Ethanol", "13. Climate action", "Ammonia", "Research Letter", "Humans", "Archaea", "Oxidation-Reduction", "Nitrification", "6. Clean water"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1093/femsle/fnad093"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/FEMS%20Microbiology%20Letters", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1093/femsle/fnad093", "name": "item", "description": "10.1093/femsle/fnad093", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1093/femsle/fnad093"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1093/treephys/21.2-3.83", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:17:16Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2012-01-20", "title": "Influence Of Elevated Co2 And Mycorrhizae On Nitrogen Acquisition: Contrasting Responses In Pinus Taeda And Liquidambar Styraciflua", "description": "An understanding of root system capacity to acquire nitrogen (N) is critical in assessing the long-term growth impact of rising atmospheric CO2 concentration ([CO2]) on trees and forest ecosystems. We examined the effects of mycorrhizal inoculation and elevated [CO2] on root ammonium (NH4+) and nitrate (NO3-) uptake capacity in sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua L.) and loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.). Mycorrhizal treatments included inoculation of seedlings with the arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungus Glomus intraradices Schenck & Smith in sweetgum and the ectomycorrhizal (EM) fungus Laccaria bicolor (Maire) Orton in loblolly pine. These plants were then equally divided between ambient and elevated [CO2] treatments. After 6 months of treatment, root systems of both species exhibited a greater uptake capacity for NH4+ than for NO3-. In both species, mycorrhizal inoculation significantly increased uptake capacity for NO3-, but not for NH4+. In sweetgum, the mycorrhizal effect on NO3- and NH4+ uptake capacity depended on growth [C02]. Similarly, in loblolly pine, the mycorrhizal effect on NO3- uptake capacity depended on growth [CO2], but the effect on NH4+ uptake capacity did not. Mycorrhizal inoculation significantly enhanced root nitrate reductase activity (NRA) in both species, but elevated [CO2] increased root NRA only in sweetgum. Leaf NRA in sweetgum did not change significantly with mycorrhizal inoculation, but increased in response to [CO2]. Leaf NRA in loblolly pine was unaffected by either treatment. The results indicate that the mycorrhizal effect on specific root N uptake in these species depends on both the form of inorganic N and the mycorrhizal type. However, our data show that in addressing N status of plants under high [CO2], reliable prediction is possible only when information about other root system adjustments (e.g., biomass allocation to fine roots) is simultaneously considered.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "Nitrogen", "Basidiomycota", "Fungi", "Pinus taeda", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Carbon Dioxide", "15. Life on land", "Pinus", "Magnoliaceae", "Nitrate Reductase", "Plant Roots", "01 natural sciences", "Nitrate Reductases", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/21.2-3.83"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Tree%20Physiology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1093/treephys/21.2-3.83", "name": "item", "description": "10.1093/treephys/21.2-3.83", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1093/treephys/21.2-3.83"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2001-02-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/1574-6941.12009", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:17:24Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2012-09-13", "title": "Chronic N-Amended Soils Exhibit An Altered Bacterial Community Structure In Harvard Forest, Ma, Usa", "description": "At the Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA, the impact of 20 years of annual ammonium nitrate application to the mixed hardwood stand on soil bacterial communities was studied using 16S rRNA genes pyrosequencing. Amplification of 16S rRNA genes was done using DNA extracted from 30 soil samples (three treatments \u00d7 two horizons \u00d7 five subplots) collected from untreated (control), low N-amended (50 kg ha(-1) year(-1)) and high N-amended (150 kg ha(-1) year(-1)) plots. A total of 1.3 million sequences were processed using qiime. Although Acidobacteria represented the most abundant phylum based on the number of sequences, Proteobacteria were the most diverse in terms of operational taxonomic units (OTUs). UniFrac analyses revealed that the bacterial communities differed significantly among soil horizons and treatments. Microsite variability among the five subplots was also evident. Nonmetric multidimensional scaling ordination of normalized OTU data followed by permutational manova further confirmed these observations. Richness indicators and indicator species analyses revealed higher bacterial diversity associated with N amendment. Differences in bacterial diversity and community composition associated with the N treatments were also observed at lower phylogenetic levels. Only 28-35% of the 6 936 total OTUs identified were common to three treatments, while the rest were specific to one treatment or common to two.", "keywords": ["DNA", " Bacterial", "0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "Environmental Microbiology and Microbial Ecology", "Nitrates", "Bacteria", "Genes", " rRNA", "Biodiversity", "15. Life on land", "Trees", "Scientific Contribution Number 2470", "Soil", "03 medical and health sciences", "Massachusetts", "RNA", " Ribosomal", " 16S", "Fertilizers", "Phylogeny", "Soil Microbiology"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/1574-6941.12009"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/FEMS%20Microbiology%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/1574-6941.12009", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/1574-6941.12009", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/1574-6941.12009"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2012-10-11T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/gcb.12555", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:17:28Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-02-24", "title": "Different Types Of Nitrogen Deposition Show Variable Effects On The Soil Carbon Cycle Process Of Temperate Forests", "description": "Abstract<p>Nitrogen (N) deposition significantly affects the soil carbon (C) cycle process of forests. However, the influence of different types of N on it still remained unclear. In this work, ammonium nitrate was selected as an inorganic N (IN) source, while urea and glycine were chosen as organic N (ON) sources. Different ratios of IN to ON (1\uffc2\uffa0:\uffc2\uffa04, 2\uffc2\uffa0:\uffc2\uffa03, 3\uffc2\uffa0:\uffc2\uffa02, 4\uffc2\uffa0:\uffc2\uffa01, and 5\uffc2\uffa0:\uffc2\uffa00) were mixed with equal total amounts and then used to fertilize temperate forest soils for 2\uffc2\uffa0years. Results showed that IN deposition inhibited soil C cycle processes, such as soil respiration, soil organic C decomposition, and enzymatic activities, and induced the accumulation of recalcitrant organic C. By contrast, ON deposition promoted these processes. Addition of ON also resulted in accelerated transformation of recalcitrant compounds into labile compounds and increased CO2 efflux. Meanwhile, greater ON deposition may convert C sequestration in forest soils into C source. These results indicated the importance of the IN to ON ratio in controlling the soil C cycle, which can consequently change the ecological effect of N deposition.</p>", "keywords": ["China", "Soil", "Nitrates", "Nitrogen", "Glycine", "Urea", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Forests", "15. Life on land", "Carbon", "Carbon Cycle", "Enzymes"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12555"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Global%20Change%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/gcb.12555", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/gcb.12555", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/gcb.12555"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-05-02T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/gcb.12532", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:17:28Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-02-27", "title": "Increased Nitrogen Leaching Following Soil Freezing Is Due To Decreased Root Uptake In A Northern Hardwood Forest", "description": "Abstract<p>The depth and duration of snow pack is declining in the northeastern United States as a result of warming air temperatures. Since snow insulates soil, a decreased snow pack can increase the frequency of soil freezing, which has been shown to have important biogeochemical implications. One of the most notable effects of soil freezing is increased inorganic nitrogen losses from soil during the following growing season. Decreased nitrogen retention is thought to be due to reduced root uptake, but has not yet been measured directly. We conducted a 2\uffe2\uff80\uff90year snow\uffe2\uff80\uff90removal experiment at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in New Hampshire, USA to determine the effects of soil freezing on root uptake and leaching of inorganic nitrogen simultaneously. Snow removal significantly increased the depth of maximal soil frost by 37.2 and 39.5\uffc2\uffa0cm in the first and second winters, respectively (P\uffc2\uffa0&lt;\uffc2\uffa00.001 in 2008/2009 and 2009/2010). As a consequence of soil freezing, root uptake of ammonium declined significantly during the first and second growing seasons after snow removal (P\uffc2\uffa0=\uffc2\uffa00.023 for 2009 and P\uffc2\uffa0=\uffc2\uffa00.005 for 2010). These observed reductions in root nitrogen uptake coincided with significant increases in soil solution concentrations of ammonium in the Oa horizon (P\uffc2\uffa0=\uffc2\uffa00.001 for 2009 and 2010) and nitrate in the B horizon (P\uffc2\uffa0&lt;\uffc2\uffa00.001 and P\uffc2\uffa0=\uffc2\uffa00.003 for 2009 and 2010, respectively). The excess flux of dissolved inorganic nitrogen from the Oa horizon that was attributable to soil freezing was 7.0 and 2.8\uffc2\uffa0kg N\uffc2\uffa0ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921 in 2009 and 2010, respectively. The excess flux of dissolved inorganic nitrogen from the B horizon was lower, amounting to 1.7 and 0.7\uffc2\uffa0kg N\uffc2\uffa0ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921 in 2009 and 2010, respectively. Results of this study provide direct evidence that soil freezing reduces root nitrogen uptake, demonstrating that the effects of winter climate change on root function has significant consequences for nitrogen retention and loss in forest ecosystems.</p>", "keywords": ["Nitrates", "Nitrogen", "Acer", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Forests", "15. Life on land", "Plant Roots", "01 natural sciences", "Soil", "13. Climate action", "Snow", "Ammonium Compounds", "Freezing", "New Hampshire", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12532"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Global%20Change%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/gcb.12532", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/gcb.12532", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/gcb.12532"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-02-27T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/j.1365-2486.2004.00737.x", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:17:33Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2004-12-24", "title": "Simulated Chronic No3\u2212Deposition Reduces Soil Respiration In Northern Hardwood Forests", "description": "Abstract<p>Chronic N additions to forest ecosystems can enhance soil N availability, potentially leading to reduced C allocation to root systems. This in turn could decrease soil CO2 efflux. We measured soil respiration during the first, fifth, sixth and eighth years of simulated atmospheric NO3\uffe2\uff88\uff92 deposition (3\uffe2\uff80\uff83g\uffe2\uff80\uff83N\uffe2\uff80\uff83m\uffe2\uff88\uff922\uffe2\uff80\uff83yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921) to four sugar maple\uffe2\uff80\uff90dominated northern hardwood forests in Michigan to assess these possibilities. During the first year, soil respiration rates were slightly, but not significantly, higher in the NO3\uffe2\uff88\uff92\uffe2\uff80\uff90amended plots. In all subsequent measurement years, soil respiration rates from NO3\uffe2\uff88\uff92\uffe2\uff80\uff90amended soils were significantly depressed. Soil temperature and soil matric potential were measured concurrently with soil respiration and used to develop regression relationships for predicting soil respiration rates. Estimates of growing season and annual soil CO2 efflux made using these relationships indicate that these C fluxes were depressed by 15% in the eighth year of chronic NO3\uffe2\uff88\uff92 additions. The decrease in soil respiration was not due to reduced C allocation to roots, as root respiration rates, root biomass, and root turnover were not significantly affected by N additions. Aboveground litter also was unchanged by the 8 years of treatment. Of the remaining potential causes for the decline in soil CO2 efflux, reduced microbial respiration appears to be the most likely possibility. Documented reductions in microbial biomass and the activities of extracellular enzymes used for litter degradation on the NO3\uffe2\uff88\uff92\uffe2\uff80\uff90amended plots are consistent with this explanation.</p>", "keywords": ["Nitrogen Fertilization", "Soil CO 2 Efflux", "Geology and Earth Sciences", "Science", "Atmospheric Nitrate Deposition", "Ecology and Evolutionary Biology", "Root Respiration", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Temperature and Moisture Effects", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Root Biomass"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2004.00737.x"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Global%20Change%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/j.1365-2486.2004.00737.x", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/j.1365-2486.2004.00737.x", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2004.00737.x"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2004-05-07T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/j.1475-2743.2004.tb00395.x", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:17:40Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2010-08-06", "title": "Impact Of Pig Slurry On Soil Properties, Water Salinization, Nitrate Leaching And Crop Yield In A Four-Year Experiment In Central Spain", "description": "<p>Abstract.  The repeated application of pig slurry to agricultural soils may result in an accumulation of salts and a risk of aquifer pollution due to nitrate leaching and salinization. Under Mediterranean conditions, a field experiment on a sandy loam soil (Typic Xerofluvent) was performed with maize (Zea mays) in 1998, 1999 and 2001 to study the effects of applying optimal (P1) and excessive rates (P3) of pig slurry on soil salinization, nitrate leaching and groundwater pollution. The rate of pig slurry was established considering the optimal N rate for maize in this soil (170, 162 and 176 kg N ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921 for 1998, 1999 and 2001, respectively). Pig slurry treatments were compared to an optimal N rate supplied as urea (U) and a control treatment without N fertilizer (P0). The composition of the slurries showed great variability between years. Mean NO3\uffe2\uff88\uff92 leaching losses from 1998 to 2001 were 329, 215, 173 and 78 kg N ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921 for P3, P1, U and P0 treatments, respectively. The amount of total dissolved salts (TDS) added to the soil in slurry application between 1998 and 2001 was 2019 kg TDS ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921 for the P1 treatment and 6058 kg TDS ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921 for the P3 treatment. As a consequence, the electrical conductivity (EC) of the slurry\uffe2\uff80\uff90treated soils was greater than that of the control soil. The EC correlated significantly with the sodium concentration of the soil solution. Over the entire experimental period, 2653, 2202 and 2110 kg Na ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921 entered the aquifer from the P3, P1 and P0 treatments, respectively. The P3 treatment did not significantly increase grain production in 1999 and 2001 compared with that achieved with the optimal N rate treatment (P1). This behaviour shows the importance of establishing application guidelines for pig slurry that will reduce the risk of soil and groundwater pollution.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Soil salinity", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Nitrate", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "Maize", "13. Climate action", "Leaching", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Aquifer pollution", "Irrigation", "Pig slurry", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-2743.2004.tb00395.x"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Soil%20Use%20and%20Management", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/j.1475-2743.2004.tb00395.x", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/j.1475-2743.2004.tb00395.x", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/j.1475-2743.2004.tb00395.x"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2004-12-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/j.1365-3040.2008.01869.x", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:17:38Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2008-08-05", "title": "Fine-Root Respiration In A Loblolly Pine (Pinus Taedal.) Forest Exposed To Elevated Co2and N Fertilization", "description": "ABSTRACT<p>Forest ecosystems release large amounts of carbon to the atmosphere from fine\uffe2\uff80\uff90root respiration (Rr), but the control of this flux and its temperature sensitivity (Q10) are poorly understood. We attempted to: (1) identify the factors limiting this flux using additions of glucose and an electron transport uncoupler (carbonyl cyanide m\uffe2\uff80\uff90chlorophenylhydrazone); and (2) improve yearly estimates of Rr by directly measuring its Q10in situ using temperature\uffe2\uff80\uff90controlled cuvettes buried around intact, attached roots. The proximal limits of Rr of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) trees exposed to free\uffe2\uff80\uff90air CO2 enrichment (FACE) and N fertilization were seasonally variable; enzyme capacity limited Rr in the winter, and a combination of substrate supply and adenylate availability limited Rr in summer months. The limiting factors of Rr were not affected by elevated CO2 or N fertilization. Elevated CO2 increased annual stand\uffe2\uff80\uff90level Rr by 34% whereas the combination of elevated CO2 and N fertilization reduced Rr by 40%. Measurements of in situ Rr with high temporal resolution detected diel patterns that were correlated with canopy photosynthesis with a lag of 1\uffe2\uff80\uff83d or less as measured by eddy covariance, indicating a dynamic link between canopy photosynthesis and root respiration. These results suggest that Rr is coupled to daily canopy photosynthesis and increases with carbon allocation below ground.</p>", "keywords": ["580", "0106 biological sciences", "Analysis of Variance", "Nitrates", "Atmosphere", "Nitrogen", "Cell Respiration", "Temperature", "Pinus taeda", "Carbon Dioxide", "15. Life on land", "Plant Roots", "01 natural sciences", "Carbon", "Trees", "Glucose", "Oxygen Consumption", "050101 - Ecological Impacts of Climate Change", "13. Climate action", "North Carolina", "Seasons", "Least-Squares Analysis", "Photosynthesis", "Fertilizers", "Ecosystem"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3040.2008.01869.x"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%2C%20Cell%20%26amp%3B%20Environment", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/j.1365-3040.2008.01869.x", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/j.1365-3040.2008.01869.x", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/j.1365-3040.2008.01869.x"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2008-10-06T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/j.1438-8677.2012.00686.x", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:17:38Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2012-12-22", "title": "Nitrogen Dynamics In Oak Model Ecosystems Subjected To Air Warming And Drought On Two Different Soils", "description": "Abstract<p>Being tolerant to heat and drought, oaks are promising candidates for future forestry in view of climate change inCentralEurope. Air warming is expected to increase, and drought decrease soilNavailability and thusNsupply to trees. Here, we conducted a model ecosystem experiment, in which mixed stands of young oaks (Quercus robur,Q.\uffc2\uffa0petraeaandQ.\uffc2\uffa0pubescens) were grown on two different soils and subjected to four climate treatments during three growing seasons: air warming by 1\uffe2\uff80\uff932\uffc2\uffa0\uffc2\uffb0C, drought periods (average precipitation reduction of 43\uffe2\uff80\uff9360%), a combination of these two treatments, and a control. In contrast to our hypotheses, neither air warming nor drought significantly affectedNavailability, whereas total amounts, vertical distribution and availability of soilNshowed substantial differences between the two soils. While air warming had no effect on tree growth andNaccumulation, the drought treatment reduced tree growth and increased, or tended to increase,Naccumulation in the reduced biomass, indicating that growth was not limited byN. Furthermore,15N\uffe2\uff80\uff90labelling revealed that this accumulation was associated with an increased uptake of nitrate. On the basis of our results, climate change effects onNdynamics are expected to be less important in oak stands than reduced soil water availability.</p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "Hot Temperature", "Nitrogen", "Climate", "Rain", "Quercus petraea", "Nitrate", "Global Warming", "Models", " Biological", "01 natural sciences", "Quercus", "Soil", "Species Specificity", "Stress", " Physiological", "Climate change", "Biomass", "Ecosystem", "Nitrates", "Air", "Water", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Adaptation", " Physiological", "6. Clean water", "Droughts", "15N tracer", "Recovery rate", "Quercus pubescens", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Quercus robur", "Ammonium"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1438-8677.2012.00686.x"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/j.1438-8677.2012.00686.x", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/j.1438-8677.2012.00686.x", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/j.1438-8677.2012.00686.x"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2012-12-21T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/j.1529-8817.2003.00746.x", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:17:41Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2004-03-30", "title": "Atmospheric Co2 Elevation Has Little Effect On Nitrifying And Denitrifying Enzyme Activity In Four European Grasslands", "description": "Abstract<p>The objective of this study was to determine what patterns, if any, existed in the response of nitrifying enzyme activity (NEA), denitrifying enzyme activity (DEA), soil microbial N and soil inorganic N to elevated CO2 across a broad range of grassland environments. We studied the response of these N pools and microbial activities in four CO2\uffe2\uff80\uff90enrichment sites of the MEGARICH project (Managing European Grasslands as a Sustainable Resource in a Changing Climate). CO2 treatment was studied in factorial combination with a cutting frequency treatment at two sites and with a temperature treatment at one site. Our study showed that microbial biomass N, NEA, DEA and extractable soil [NH4+] and [NO3\uffe2\uff88\uff92] were generally not affected by elevated CO2 in these grassland ecosystems after several years of treatment, nor by cutting frequency or temperature at the sites that included these treatments. Exceptions to this were that DEA and soil [NO3\uffe2\uff88\uff92] decreased by 22% and 45%, respectively, at the French site at elevated CO2. We discuss the possible explanations for this lack of response.</p>", "keywords": ["580", "2. Zero hunger", "RAY GRASS ANGLAIS", "[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]", "MEGARICH PROJECT", "AMMONIUM", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "ammonium", "[SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio]", "IMMOBILIZATION", "nitrate", "13. Climate action", "immobilization", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "GLOBAL CHANGE", "MEGARICH project", "global change", "NITRATE"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1529-8817.2003.00746.x"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Global%20Change%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/j.1529-8817.2003.00746.x", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/j.1529-8817.2003.00746.x", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/j.1529-8817.2003.00746.x"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2004-02-19T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/sum.12083", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:17:47Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-10-08", "title": "Cover Crop Growth And Impact On N Leaching As Affected By Pre- And Postharvest Sowing And Time Of Incorporation", "description": "Abstract<p>InNorthernEurope, cover crops are traditionally established before spring crops by undersowing, but some cover crops might also have an effect if preharvest sown before spring crops and even winter crops. The effects of cover crop sowing date, sowing technique and succeeding main crop on biomass production, N uptake, nitrate leaching and soil inorganic N were tested in lysimeters and in the field. Cruciferous cover crops (oil radish, white mustard) were sown preharvest by broadcasting into winter wheat in July and were allowed to grow until a following winter wheat was established in September. Other preharvest cover crops were left in place until late autumn. For comparison, the same cruciferous cover crops were established postharvest after light harrowing. Perennial ryegrass undersown in spring barley was also included. Aboveground N uptake in preharvest cover crops amounted to a maximum of 24\uffc2\uffa0kg\uffc2\uffa0N/ha in September before sowing winter wheat. When left until late autumn, preharvest oil radish took up a maximum of 66\uffc2\uffa0kg\uffc2\uffa0N/ha, and ryegrass and postharvest cover crops 35\uffc2\uffa0kg\uffc2\uffa0N/ha. Preharvest establishment of cruciferous cover crops before a spring\uffe2\uff80\uff90sown crop thus seems promising. The soil was depleted of inorganic N to the same extent in late autumn irrespective of cover crop type, sowing time and technique within winter wheat or spring barley. However, the reduction in nitrate leaching of preharvest cover crops incorporated after 2\uffc2\uffa0months and followed by winter wheat was only half of that achieved by cover crops left until late autumn or spring.</p>", "keywords": ["Nitrate leaching", "Winter wheat", "2. Zero hunger", "N uptake", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Lysimeters", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "7. Clean energy", "Spring barley"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/sum.12083"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Soil%20Use%20and%20Management", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/sum.12083", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/sum.12083", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/sum.12083"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-09-16T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1126/sciadv.aaq1689", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:17:48Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-08-22", "title": "A keystone microbial enzyme for nitrogen control of soil carbon storage", "description": "<p>Nitrogen-induced suppression of lignin-modifying enzyme activity contributes to soil carbon sequestration.</p>", "keywords": ["CHANGING ENVIRONMENT", "570", "550", "Nitrogen", "LITTER DECOMPOSITION", "Soil", "Bacterial Proteins", "Research Articles", "Ecosystem", "Soil Microbiology", "2. Zero hunger", "Science & Technology", "Bacteria", "HETEROTROPHIC ACTIVITY", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Carbon", "Enzymes", "N DEPOSITION", "Multidisciplinary Sciences", "ORGANIC-MATTER", "BIOCHEMICAL-COMPOSITION", "TEMPERATE FOREST", "13. Climate action", "SUBTROPICAL FORESTS", "Science & Technology - Other Topics", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "ATMOSPHERIC NITRATE DEPOSITION", "SIZE FRACTIONS", "CBIO"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaq1689"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Science%20Advances", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1126/sciadv.aaq1689", "name": "item", "description": "10.1126/sciadv.aaq1689", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1126/sciadv.aaq1689"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-08-03T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1590/1413-70542017415003917", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:18:12Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-11-15", "title": "Ammonia And Carbon Dioxide Emissions By Stabilized Conventional Nitrogen Fertilizers And Controlled Release In Corn Crop", "description": "<p>ABSTRACT The market of stabilized, slow and controlled release nitrogen (N) fertilizers represents 1% of the world fertilizer consumption. On the other hand, the increase in availability, innovation and application of these technologies could lead to the improvement of N use efficiency in agroecossystems and to the reduction of environmental impacts. The objective of this study was to quantify agronomic efficiency relative index, ammonia volatilization, and CO2 emissions from conventional, stabilized and controlled release N fertilizers in corn summer crop. The experiment was carried out in a corn crop area located in Lavras, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, without irrigation. All treatments were applied in topdressing at rate of 150 kg ha-1 N. N-NH3 losses from N fertilizers were: Granular urea (39% of the applied N ) = prilled urea (38%) &gt; urea coated with 16% S0 (32%) = blend of urea + 7.9% S0 + polymers + conventional urea (32%) &gt; prilled urea incorporated at 0.02 m depth (24%) &gt; urea + 530 mg kg-1 of NBPT (8%) = Hydrolyzed leather (9%) &gt; urea + thermoplastic resin (3%) = ammonium sulfate (1%) = ammonium nitrate (0.7%). Thermoplastic resin coated urea, ammonium nitrate and ammonium sulfate presented low values of cumulative CO2   emissions in corn crop. On the other hand, hydrolyzed leather promoted greater C-CO2 emission, when compared with other nitrogen fertilizers.</p>", "keywords": ["Coated urea", "Nitrogen", "Agriculture (General)", "Biomedical Engineering", "no-tillage", "Soil Science", "Organic chemistry", "Pesticide Pollution and Management", "Ammonia volatilization from urea", "FOS: Medical engineering", "Nitrate", "S1-972", "Agricultural and Biological Sciences", "Engineering", "Fertilizer", "Zea mays L.", "Ammonia", "perdas de NH3", "Agricultural Applications", "Urea", "Ammonium nitrate", "Ammonium sulfate", "Biology", "Effects of Soil Compaction on Crop Production", "4. Education", "Life Sciences", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Pollution", "Agronomy", "Chemistry", "plantio direto", "Controlled Release Materials for Agriculture", "Physical Sciences", "Environmental Science", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "NH3 loss", "CO2", "Ammonium"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1590/1413-70542017415003917"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ci%C3%AAncia%20e%20Agrotecnologia", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1590/1413-70542017415003917", "name": "item", "description": "10.1590/1413-70542017415003917", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1590/1413-70542017415003917"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2017-09-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1371/journal.pone.0168134", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:18:03Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-12-13", "title": "Chinese Milk Vetch As Green Manure Mitigates Nitrous Oxide Emission From Monocropped Rice System In South China", "description": "Open AccessMonocropped rice system is an important intensive cropping system for food security in China. Green manure (GM) as an alternative to fertilizer N (FN) is useful for improving soil quality. However, few studies have examined the effect of Chinese milk vetch (CMV) as GM on nitrous oxide (N2O) emission from monocropped rice field in south China. Therefore, a pot-culture experiment with four treatments (control, no FN and CMV; CMV as GM alone, M; fertilizer N alone, FN; integrating fertilizer N with CMV, NM) was performed to investigate the effect of incorporating CMV as GM on N2O emission using a closed chamber-gas chromatography (GC) technique during the rice growing periods. Under the same N rate, incorporating CMV as GM (the treatments of M and NM) mitigated N2O emission during the growing periods of rice plant, reduced the NO3- content and activities of nitrate and nitrite reductase as well as the population of nitrifying bacteria in top soil at maturity stage of rice plant versus FN pots. The global warming potential (GWP) and greenhouse gas intensity (GHGI) of N2O from monocropped rice field was ranked as M<NM<FN. However, the treatment of NM increased rice grain yield and soil NH4+ content, which were dramatically decreased in the M pots, over the treatment of FN. Hence, it can be concluded that integrating FN with CMV as GM is a feasible tactic for food security and N2O mitigation in the monocropped rice based system.", "keywords": ["Greenhouse Effect", "China", "Science", "Population", "Nitrous Oxide", "Soil Science", "Nitrogen Use Efficiency", "Rice Water Management and Productivity Enhancement", "Plant Science", "Crop", "Nitrate", "Greenhouse gas", "Environmental science", "Agricultural and Biological Sciences", "Soil", "Fertilizer", "Sociology", "Paddy field", "Biology", "Demography", "2. Zero hunger", "Nitrous oxide", "Ecology", "Q", "R", "Life Sciences", "Fabaceae", "Oryza", "Agriculture", "Food security", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Nitrogen Cycle", "Soil Nutrient Management", "15. Life on land", "Crop Production", "Agronomy", "6. Clean water", "Field experiment", "FOS: Sociology", "13. Climate action", "FOS: Biological sciences", "Medicine", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Intercropping in Agricultural Systems", "Soil Carbon Dynamics and Nutrient Cycling in Ecosystems", "Agronomy and Crop Science", "Research Article", "Cropping system", "Nitrate reductase"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0168134"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/PLOS%20ONE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1371/journal.pone.0168134", "name": "item", "description": "10.1371/journal.pone.0168134", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1371/journal.pone.0168134"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2016-12-13T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1371/journal.pbio.0030319", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:18:01Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2005-08-02", "title": "Responses Of Grassland Production To Single And Multiple Global Environmental Changes", "description": "In this century, increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere are expected to cause warmer surface temperatures and changes in precipitation patterns. At the same time, reactive nitrogen is entering natural systems at unprecedented rates. These global environmental changes have consequences for the functioning of natural ecosystems, and responses of these systems may feed back to affect climate and atmospheric composition. Here, we report plant growth responses of an ecosystem exposed to factorial combinations of four expected global environmental changes. We exposed California grassland to elevated CO2, temperature, precipitation, and nitrogen deposition for five years. Root and shoot production did not respond to elevated CO2 or modest warming. Supplemental precipitation led to increases in shoot production and offsetting decreases in root production. Supplemental nitrate deposition increased total production by an average of 26%, primarily by stimulating shoot growth. Interactions among the main treatments were rare. Together, these results suggest that production in this grassland will respond minimally to changes in CO2 and winter precipitation, and to small amounts of warming. Increased nitrate deposition would have stronger effects on the grassland. Aside from this nitrate response, expectations that a changing atmosphere and climate would promote carbon storage by increasing plant growth appear unlikely to be realized in this system.", "keywords": ["Greenhouse Effect", "0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Nitrates", "Meteorological Concepts", "QH301-705.5", "Climate", "Carbon Dioxide", "Environment", "15. Life on land", "Poaceae", "Plant Roots", "01 natural sciences", "13. Climate action", "Biology (General)", "Plant Shoots", "Research Article", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030319"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/PLoS%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1371/journal.pbio.0030319", "name": "item", "description": "10.1371/journal.pbio.0030319", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030319"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2005-08-09T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1371/journal.pone.0219479", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:18:04Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-07-23", "title": "An integrated assessment of nitrogen source, transformation and fate within an intensive dairy system to inform management change", "description": "From an environmental perspective optimised dairy systems, which follow current regulations, still have low nitrogen (N) use efficiency, high N surplus (kg N ha-1) and enable ad-hoc delivery of direct and indirect reactive N losses to water and the atmosphere. The objective of the present study was to divide an intensive dairy farm into N attenuation capacity areas based on this ad-hoc delivery. Historical and current spatial and temporal multi-level data- sets (stable isotope and dissolved gas) were combined and interpreted. Results showed that the farm had four distinct attenuation areas: high N attenuation: characterised by ammonium-N (NH4+-N) below 0.23 mg NH4+-N l-1 and nitrate (NO3--N) below 5.65 mg NO3-- N l-1 in surface, drainage and groundwater, located on imperfectly to moderately-well drained soils with high denitrification potential and low nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions (av. 0.0032 mg N2O-N l-1); moderate N attenuation: characterised by low NO3--N concentration in drainage water but high N2O production (0.0317 mg N2O-N l-1) and denitrification potential lower than group 1 (av. \u03b415N-NO3-: 16.4 , av. \u03b418O-NO3-: 9.2 ), on well to moderately drained soils; low N attenuation area 1: characterised by high NO3--N (av. 6.90 mg NO3--N l-1) in drainage water from well to moderately-well drained soils, with low denitrification potential (av. \u03b415N-NO3-: 9.5 , av. \u03b418O-NO3-: 5.9 ) and high N2O emissions (0.0319 mg N2O l-1); and low N attenuation area 2: characterised by high NH4+-N (av. 3.93 mg NH4+-N l-1 and high N2O emissions (av. 0.0521 mg N2O l-1) from well to imperfectly drained soil. N loads on site should be moved away from low attenuation areas and emissions to air and water should be assessed.", "keywords": ["dairy systems", "Farms", "Time Factors", "550", "Nitrogen", "Science", "Nitrous Oxide", "management change", "Oxygen Isotopes", "01 natural sciences", "Permeability", "nitrogen", "dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium", "soil", "Dairy system", "Soil", "Isotopes", "Waste Management", "Oxygen Radioisotopes", "Ammonium Compounds", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Nitrates", "Geography", "Stable Isotopes", "Q", "R", "Water", "Agriculture", "15. Life on land", "nitrification", "6. Clean water", "Management", "DNRA", "Dairying", "Milk", "Slurries", "13. Climate action", "Denitrification", "Medicine", "Intensive", "Research Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/148308/8/journal.pone.0219479.pdf"}, {"href": "https://air.unimi.it/bitstream/2434/956826/2/document.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0219479"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/PLOS%20ONE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1371/journal.pone.0219479", "name": "item", "description": "10.1371/journal.pone.0219479", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1371/journal.pone.0219479"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-07-23T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/09-0077.1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:18:21Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2010-04-09", "title": "Use Of N Immobilization To Tighten The N Cycle In Conventional Agroecosystems", "description": "<p>Soils in conventional agroecosystems are purposely held in a nitrogen (N)\uffe2\uff80\uff90saturated state to maximize crop yields. Planting winter annual cover crops when fields are usually fallow has been proposed to ameliorate N losses from soils. In this study we introduced winter annual cover crops into an N rate study with plots fertilized at 0, 34, 67, 101, 134, 168, and 202 kg N/ha in maize (Zea mays L.) to determine how winter annual cover crops affect yields, N2O and NO3\uffe2\uff88\uff92 fluxes, and N pools. At the six\uffe2\uff80\uff90leaf stage and during flowering, incorporation of cover crop into soil resulted in a 30% reduction in maize biomass. Three weeks after fertilization, KCl\uffe2\uff80\uff90extractable soil mineral N was 75\uffe2\uff80\uff9387% lower in cover\uffe2\uff80\uff90cropped soils than in no\uffe2\uff80\uff90cover soils, indicating that N had been immobilized in the cover\uffe2\uff80\uff90cropped soils. At physiological maturity, there was no difference between cover and no\uffe2\uff80\uff90cover treatments in crop yield, which was maximized at 9 Mg/ha in 2006 and 7 Mg/ha in 2007. Where N rates exceed crop requirements, cover crop incorporation may reduce N exports as NO3\uffe2\uff88\uff92 and N2O. Tighter N cycling in conventional agroecosystems could be fostered by matching N rates to the amount of N removed with grain and using N immobilization to retain N and support yields. If N immobilization is viewed as a means for efficient fertilizer N use rather than a process that decreases crop productivity, growers might be more willing to adopt cover\uffe2\uff80\uff90cropping practices.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Soil", "Nitrates", "Nitrogen", "Nitrous Oxide", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Agriculture", "Biomass", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Weather", "Zea mays"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/09-0077.1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecological%20Applications", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/09-0077.1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/09-0077.1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/09-0077.1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2010-04-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1590/s0100-204x2004000200012", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:18:13Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2005-04-26", "title": "Estoque De Carbono E Nitrog\u00eanio E Formas De Nitrog\u00eanio Mineral Em Um Solo Submetido A Diferentes Sistemas De Manejo", "description": "<p>O objetivo deste trabalho foi verificar altera\uffc3\uffa7\uffc3\uffb5es nos teores e no estoque de C org\uffc3\uffa2nico e N total do solo, e nas suas formas n\uffc3\uffadtrica e amoniacal, em sistemas de manejo implementados em \uffc3\uffa1rea de cerrado nativo. Foram coletadas amostras no Munic\uffc3\uffadpio de Morrinhos, GO, num Latossolo Vermelho distr\uffc3\uffb3fico t\uffc3\uffadpico, textura argilosa, em cinco profundidades, nos sistemas: cerrado nativo, pastagem de Brachiaria sp., plantio direto irrigado com rota\uffc3\uffa7\uffc3\uffa3o milho-feij\uffc3\uffa3o, plantio direto irrigado com rota\uffc3\uffa7\uffc3\uffa3o milho-feij\uffc3\uffa3o e arroz-tomate, plantio convencional de longa dura\uffc3\uffa7\uffc3\uffa3o e plantio convencional recente ap\uffc3\uffb3s pastagem. N\uffc3\uffa3o houve diferen\uffc3\uffa7a significativa nos teores e no estoque de C e N totais do solo, embora o plantio convencional de longa dura\uffc3\uffa7\uffc3\uffa3o tenha apresentado varia\uffc3\uffa7\uffc3\uffb5es negativas no estoque de C em rela\uffc3\uffa7\uffc3\uffa3o ao cerrado nativo at\uffc3\uffa9 20 cm de profundidade, ao contr\uffc3\uffa1rio dos sistemas com menor revolvimento. O am\uffc3\uffb4nio predominou no cerrado nativo e na pastagem ao longo de praticamente todo o perfil, enquanto os teores de nitrato foram maiores na camada superficial dos sistemas com culturas anuais. A pastagem e o plantio direto, desde que com esquema diversificado de rota\uffc3\uffa7\uffc3\uffa3o de culturas, s\uffc3\uffa3o promissores para aumentar os estoques de C org\uffc3\uffa2nico do solo.</p>", "keywords": ["no-till", "Agriculture (General)", "conventional tillage", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "S1-972", "ammonium", "plantio direto", "cultivo convencional", "nitrate", "soil organic matter", "am\u00f4nio", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "mat\u00e9ria org\u00e2nica do solo", "nitrato"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1590/s0100-204x2004000200012"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Pesquisa%20Agropecu%C3%A1ria%20Brasileira", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1590/s0100-204x2004000200012", "name": "item", "description": "10.1590/s0100-204x2004000200012", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1590/s0100-204x2004000200012"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2004-02-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1594/pangaea.963212", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:18:14Z", "type": "Dataset", "title": "Stream water chemistry and landscape characteristics in Zackenberg Valley, NE Greenland summer 2021", "description": "The data contains water chemistry and spectral catchment NDVI for 14 streams in Zackenberg Valley in Northeast Greenland, sampled summer 2021 from 10th July to 15th September. We collected water samples for measuring water chemistry, and we determined landscape parameters using GIS based tools. The data was collected at three sampling periods in summer 2021 in the Zackenberg Research Station (74\u00b028'N, 20\u00b034'W). The area has a polar tundra climate with mean annual air temperature of -9.1 \u00b0C. Water chemistry (i.e. dissolved and particulate nitrogen, phosphorus, carbon; dissolved iron and silicate) and catchment characteristics (i.e. catchment area, altitude, slope, aspect, NDVI, snow cover) was measured for each of the 14 stream sites. Water chemistry samples were collected and analyzed using standard methods, and landscape characteristics were determined using GIS resources. The data was collected in order to study relationships between landscape characteristics and stream water chemistry. The water samples were collected by a team of two people, and the detailed methods are given below.", "keywords": ["inorganic", "median", "Nitrate Nitrogen", "Nitrogen", " inorganic", " dissolved/Nitrogen", " total dissolved ratio", "Nitrate", "Normalized Difference Vegetation Index", "Latitude of event", "Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry ICP MS", "Arctic", "Temperature", " water", "WTW", "Total organic carbon analyzer TOC VCPH TNM 1", "Total organic carbon analyzer (TOC-VCPH/TNM-1)", " Shimadzu", "Calculated", "dissolved ratio", "Nitrate/Nitrogen", " inorganic", " dissolved ratio", "total dissolved ratio", "Multiple investigations", "Temperature", "Nitrogen", " total dissolved", "Month", "dissolved", "specific", "streams", "6. Clean water", "Nitrogen", " inorganic", " dissolved", "Chemistry", "Inductively Coupled Plasma - Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS)", " PerkinElmer Instruments", " Optima 2000 DV", "Sum cations", "Natural Sciences", "Ammonium", "Potassium Silicon ratio", "Calcium Magnesium ratio", "Conductivity Meter", " WTW", " ProfiLine Cond 3110", "Longitude of event", "Silicon", "Lachat QuickChem 8500 flow injection autoanalyser", "Nitrogen", "organic", "water chemistry", "Iron", "Calcium/Magnesium ratio", "water", "Site", "Nitrate/Ammonium ratio", "Aspect", "Normalized Differenced Vegetation Index", " median", "Ammonium Nitrogen", "Normalized Differenced Vegetation Index", "Catchment area", "Slope", "PerkinElmer Instruments", "ProfiLine Cond 3110", "Shimadzu", "Date/Time of event", "Conductivity Meter", "Nitrate Ammonium ratio", "total dissolved", "Conductivity", "Event label", "Date Time of event", "Nitrogen", " inorganic", " dissolved/Nitrogen", " organic", " dissolved ratio", "15. Life on land", "Carbon", " organic", " dissolved", "dissolved Nitrogen", "Elevation of event", "Carbon", "rivers", "Snow coverage", "Greening", "Potassium/Silicon ratio", "Optima 2000 DV", "Nitrogen", " organic", " dissolved", "13. Climate action", "Discharge", "Conductivity", " specific", "Ammonium/Nitrogen", " inorganic", " dissolved ratio"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Riis, Tenna, Tank, Jennifer, Holmboe, Cecilie Marie Hartvig, Gim\u00e9nez-Grau, Pau, Mastepanov, Mikhail, Catalan, Nuria, Stott, David, Hansen, Birgitte, Kristiansen, S\u00f8ren M, Pastor, Ada,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.963212"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1594/pangaea.963212", "name": "item", "description": "10.1594/pangaea.963212", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1594/pangaea.963212"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.17221/156/2011-pse", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:18:16Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-02-10", "title": "Effects Of Urea Types And Irrigation On Crop Uptake, Soil Residual, And Loss Of Nitrogen In Maize Field On The North China Plain", "description": "Water and nitrogen managements are both very important to increase crop yield. An experiment was carried out in split plot design to study the effects of urea types (normal urea and coated urea) and irrigation on soil and fertilizer nitrogen use in maize (Zea mays L.) field in 2006 and 2007. Irrigation was used as main plot, and urea types were used as split-plot. Two irrigation levels, no irrigation in the whole growth duration and 85 mm irrigation at the blister stage, were designed. There were five nitrogen treatments, which were no nitrogen used as control (N0), normal urea 75 kg N/ha (N1), normal urea 150 kg N/ha (N2), coated urea 75 kg N/ha (C1) and coated urea 150 kg N/ha (C2). The results showed that, at the same level of irrigation and nitrogen, the soil nitrogen contents of the treatments with coated urea (CU) applied were higher in 0~40 cm soil layers, but lower in deeper soil layers, than those with normal urea (NU) applied. Irrigation increased the nitrate losing, but the nitrate loss of CU was lower than those of NU. Using CU with irrigation could increase the nitrogen uptake by maize, and more nitrogen was transfered to grain. At the same nitrogen level, CU had higher N recovery efficiency but lower soil N dependent rate than NU. When applied with CU, the nitrogen release rate was lower and the nitrogen was quickly absorbed by maize, which reduced the risk of nitrogen loss and increased the use efficiency of soil and fertilizer nitrogen. These results suggest that coated urea combined with deficit irrigation should be applied for high yield and nitrogen use efficiency of maize on the North China Plain.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "nitrate nitrogen", "Plant culture", "coated urea", "maize", "nitrogen utilization", "01 natural sciences", "irrigation", "6. Clean water", "SB1-1110", "3. Good health"], "contacts": [{"organization": "H. G. Hu, S. Z. Tian, Y. Wang, Zengjia Li, S. Y. Chi, Tangyuan Ning, H. F. Han, G. Q. Shao,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.17221/156/2011-pse"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%2C%20Soil%20and%20Environment", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.17221/156/2011-pse", "name": "item", "description": "10.17221/156/2011-pse", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.17221/156/2011-pse"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2012-01-31T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/05-0836", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:18:20Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2007-06-04", "title": "Bromus Tectorum Invasion Alters Nitrogen Dynamics In An Undisturbed Arid Grassland Ecosystem", "description": "The nonnative annual grass Bromus tectorum has successfully replaced native vegetation in many arid and semiarid ecosystems. Initial introductions accompanied grazing and agriculture, making it difficult to separate the effects of invasion from physical disturbance. This study examined N dynamics in two recently invaded, undisturbed vegetation associations (C3 and C4). The response of these communities was compared to an invaded/ disturbed grassland. The invaded/disturbed communities had higher surface NH4+ input in spring, whereas there were no differences for surface input of NO3-. Soil inorganic N was dominated by NH4+, but invaded sites had greater subsurface soil NO3-. Invaded sites had greater total soil N at the surface four years post-invasion in undisturbed communities, but total N was lower in the invaded/disturbed communities. Soil delta15N increased with depth in the noninvaded and recently invaded communities, whereas the invaded/disturbed communities exhibited the opposite pattern. Enriched foliar delta15N values suggest that Bromus assimilated subsurface NO3-, whereas the native grasses were restricted to surface N. A Rayleigh distillation model accurately described decomposition patterns in the noninvaded communities where soil N loss is accompanied by increasing soil delta15N; however, the invaded/ disturbed communities exhibited the opposite pattern, suggesting redistribution of N within the soil profile. This study suggests that invasion has altered the mechanisms driving nitrogen dynamics. Bromus litter decomposition and soil NO3- concentrations were greater in the invaded communities during periods of ample precipitation, and NO3- leached from the surface litter, where it was assimilated by Bromus. The primary source of N input in these communities is a biological soil crust that is removed with disturbance, and the lack of N input by the biological soil crust did not balance N loss, resulting in reduced total N in the invaded/disturbed communities. Bromus produced a positive feedback loop by leaching NO3- from decomposing Bromus litter to subsurface soil layers, accessing that deepsoil N pool with deep roots and returning that N to the surface as biomass and subsequent litter. Lack of new inputs combined with continued loss will result in lower total soil N, evidenced by the lower total soil N in the invaded/disturbed communities.", "keywords": ["ecosystem", "0106 biological sciences", "Nitrates", "550", "Nitrogen Isotopes", "Bromus", "Nitrogen", "Rain", "Population Dynamics", "arid", "Biodiversity", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Poaceae", "01 natural sciences", "nitrogen", "Soil", "Natural Resources and Conservation", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Biomass", "Seasons", "grassland", "bromus tectorum invasion", "Environmental Sciences", "Ecosystem"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Sperry, L. J., Belnap, J., Evans, R. D.,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/05-0836"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/05-0836", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/05-0836", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/05-0836"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2006-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/10-2076.1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:18:21Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2011-04-29", "title": "No Evidence That Chronic Nitrogen Additions Increase Photosynthesis In Mature Sugar Maple Forests", "description": "Atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition can increase forest growth. Because N deposition commonly increases foliar N concentrations, it is thought that this increase in forest growth is a consequence of enhanced leaf-level photosynthesis. However, tests of this mechanism have been infrequent, and increases in photosynthesis have not been consistently observed in mature forests subject to chronic N deposition. In four mature northern hardwood forests in the north-central United States, chronic N additions (30 kg N ha(-1) yr(-1) as NaNO3 for 14 years) have increased aboveground growth but have not affected canopy leaf biomass or leaf area index. In order to understand the mechanism behind the increases in growth, we hypothesized that the NO3(-) additions increased foliar N concentrations and leaf-level photosynthesis in the dominant species in these forests (sugar maple, Acer saccharum). The NO3(-) additions significantly increased foliar N. However, there was no significant difference between the ambient and +NO3(-) treatments in two seasons (2006-2007) of instantaneous measurements of photosynthesis from either canopy towers or excised branches. In measurements on excised branches, photosynthetic nitrogen use efficiency (micromol CO2 s(-1) g(-1) N) was significantly decreased (-13%) by NO3(-) additions. Furthermore, we found no consistent NO3(-) effect across all sites in either current foliage or leaf litter collected annually throughout the study (1993-2007) and analyzed for delta 13C and delta 18O, isotopes that can be used together to integrate changes in photosynthesis over time. We observed a small but significant NO3(-) effect on the average area and mass of individual leaves from the excised branches, but these differences varied by site and were countered by changes in leaf number. These photosynthesis and leaf area data together suggest that NO3(-) additions have not stimulated photosynthesis. There is no evidence that nutrient deficiencies have developed at these sites, so unlike other studies of photosynthesis in N-saturated forests, we cannot attribute the lack of a stimulation of photosynthesis to nutrient limitations. Rather than increases in C assimilation, the observed increases in aboveground growth at our study sites are more likely due to shifts in C allocation.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "Carbon Isotopes", "Michigan", "Nitrates", "Time Factors", "Nitrogen", "Acer", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Oxygen Isotopes", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Carbon", "Trees", "Oxygen", "Plant Leaves", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Photosynthesis", "Fertilizers"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/10-2076.1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecological%20Applications", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/10-2076.1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/10-2076.1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/10-2076.1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2011-10-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.2134/jeq2004.2290", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:18:30Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2010-06-14", "title": "Pig Slurry Application And Irrigation Effects On Nitrate Leaching In Mediterranean Soil Lysimeters", "description": "ABSTRACT<p>Land application of animal manures, such as pig slurry (PS), is a common practice in intensive\uffe2\uff80\uff90farming agriculture. However, this practice has a pitfall consisting of the loss of nutrients, in particular nitrate, toward water courses. The objective of this study was to evaluate nitrate leaching for three application rates of pig slurry (50, 100, and 200 Mg ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921) and a control treatment of mineral fertilizer (275 kg N ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921) applied to corn grown in 10 drainage lysimeters. The effects of two irrigation regimes (low vs. high irrigation efficiency) were also analyzed. In the first two irrigation events, drainage NO3\uffe2\uff80\uff93N concentrations as high as 145 and 69 mg L\uffe2\uff88\uff921 were measured in the high and moderate PS rate treatments, respectively, in the low irrigation efficiency treatments. This indicates the fast transformation of the PS ammonium into nitrate and the subsequent leaching of the transformed nitrate. Drainage NO3\uffe2\uff80\uff93N concentration and load increased linearly by 0.69 mg NO3\uffe2\uff80\uff93N L\uffe2\uff88\uff921 and 4.6 kg NO3\uffe2\uff80\uff93N ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921, respectively, for each 10 kg N ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921 applied over the minimum of 275 kg N ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921 An increase in irrigation efficiency did not induce a significant increase of leachate concentration and the amount of nitrate leached decreased about 65%. Application of low PS doses before sowing complemented with sidedressing N application and a good irrigation management are the key factors to reduce nitrate contamination of water courses.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Nitrates", "Mediterranean Region", "Swine", "Agriculture", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "Manure", "Solubility", "Water Supply", "Animals", "Soil Pollutants", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Water Pollutants", "Fertilizers", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "A. Daud\u00e9n, D. Qu\u00edlez, M. V. Vera,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.2134/jeq2004.2290"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Environmental%20Quality", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.2134/jeq2004.2290", "name": "item", "description": "10.2134/jeq2004.2290", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.2134/jeq2004.2290"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2004-11-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.2134/jeq2003.5990", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:18:29Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2012-08-02", "description": "ABSTRACT<p>Maize (Zea mays L.) production in the smallholder farming areas of Zimbabwe is based on both organic and mineral nutrient sources. A study was conducted to determine the effect of composted cattle manure, mineral N fertilizer, and their combinations on NO3 concentrations in leachate leaving the root zone and to establish N fertilization rates that minimize leaching. Maize was grown for three seasons (1996\uffe2\uff80\uff931997, 1997\uffe2\uff80\uff931998, and 1998\uffe2\uff80\uff931999) in field lysimeters repacked with a coarse\uffe2\uff80\uff90grained sandy soil (Typic Kandiustalf). Leachate volumes ranged from 480 to 509 mm yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921 (1395 mm rainfall) in 1996\uffe2\uff80\uff931997, 296 to 335 mm yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921 (840 mm rainfall) in 1997\uffe2\uff80\uff931998, and 606 to 635 mm yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921 (1387 mm rainfall) in 1998\uffe2\uff80\uff931999. Mineral N fertilizer, especially the high rate (120 kg N ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921), and manure plus mineral N fertilizer combinations resulted in high NO3 leachate concentrations (up to 34 mg N L\uffe2\uff88\uff921) and NO3 losses (up to 56 kg N ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921 yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921) in 1996\uffe2\uff80\uff931997, which represent both environmental and economic concerns. Although the leaching losses were relatively small in the other seasons, they are still of great significance in African smallholder farming where fertilizer is unaffordable for most farmers. Nitrate leaching from sole manure treatments was relatively low (average of less than 20 kg N ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921 yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921), whereas the crop uptake efficiency of mineral N fertilizer was enhanced by up to 26% when manure and mineral N fertilizer were applied in combination. The low manure (12.5 Mg ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921) plus 60 kg N ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921 fertilizer treatment was best in terms of maintaining dry matter yield and minimizing N leaching losses.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Tropical Climate", "Nitrates", "Rain", "rainfall", "cattle manure", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Silicon Dioxide", "Plant Roots", "losses", "6. Clean water", "Manure", "corn", "nitrogen-fertilizer", "Soil Pollutants", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Water Pollutants", "lysimeters", "Fertilizers", "zimbabwe", "time", "Environmental Monitoring"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.2134/jeq2003.5990"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Environmental%20Quality", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.2134/jeq2003.5990", "name": "item", "description": "10.2134/jeq2003.5990", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.2134/jeq2003.5990"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2003-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.2134/jeq2004.1010", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:18:29Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2010-06-14", "description": "ABSTRACT<p>Despite the use of best management practices for nitrogen (N) application rate and timing, significant losses of nitrate nitrogen NO\uffe2\uff88\uff923\uffe2\uff80\uff93N in drainage discharge continue to occur from row crop cropping systems. Our objective was to determine whether a autumn\uffe2\uff80\uff90seeded winter rye (Secale cereale L.) cover crop following corn (Zea mays L.) would reduce NO\uffe2\uff88\uff923\uffe2\uff80\uff93N losses through subsurface tile drainage in a corn\uffe2\uff80\uff93soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] cropping system in the northern Corn Belt (USA) in a moderately well\uffe2\uff80\uff90drained soil. Both phases of the corn\uffe2\uff80\uff93soybean rotation, with and without the winter rye cover crop following corn, were established in 1998 in a Normania clay loam (fine\uffe2\uff80\uff90loamy, mixed, mesic Aquic Haplustoll) soil at Lamberton, MN. Cover cropping did not affect subsequent soybean yield, but reduced drainage discharge, flow\uffe2\uff80\uff90weighted mean nitrate concentration (FWMNC), and NO\uffe2\uff88\uff923\uffe2\uff80\uff93N loss relative to winter fallow, although the magnitude of the effect varied considerably with annual precipitation. Three\uffe2\uff80\uff90year average drainage discharge was lower with a winter rye cover crop than without (p = 0.06). Over three years, subsurface tile\uffe2\uff80\uff90drainage discharge was reduced 11% and NO\uffe2\uff88\uff923\uffe2\uff80\uff93N loss was reduced 13% for a corn\uffe2\uff80\uff93soybean cropping system with a rye cover crop following corn than with no rye cover crop. We estimate that establishment of a winter rye cover crop after corn will be successful in one of four years in southwestern Minnesota. Cover cropping with rye has the potential to be an effective management tool for reducing NO\uffe2\uff88\uff923\uffe2\uff80\uff93N loss from subsurface drainage discharge despite challenges to establishment and spring growth in the north\uffe2\uff80\uff90central USA.</p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Nitrates", "Glycine max", "Nitrogen", "Rain", "Secale", "Water Pollution", "Agriculture", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Zea mays", "01 natural sciences", "United States", "6. Clean water", "Soil", "Water Movements", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Fertilizers"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.2134/jeq2004.1010"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Environmental%20Quality", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.2134/jeq2004.1010", "name": "item", "description": "10.2134/jeq2004.1010", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.2134/jeq2004.1010"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2004-05-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.2134/jeq2005.0047", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:18:30Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2005-11-08", "title": "In Situ Measurements Of Nitrate Leaching Implicate Poor Nitrogen And Irrigation Management On Sandy Soils", "description": "ABSTRACT<p>Minimizing the risk of nitrate contamination along the waterways of the U.S. Great Plains is essential to continued irrigated corn production and quality water supplies. The objectives of this study were to quantify nitrate (NO3) leaching for irrigated sandy soils (Pratt loamy fine sand [sandy, mixed, mesic Lamellic Haplustalfs]) and to evaluate the effects of N fertilizer and irrigation management strategies on NO3 leaching in irrigated corn. Two irrigation schedules (1.0\uffc3\uff97 and 1.25\uffc3\uff97 optimum) were combined with six N fertilizer treatments broadcast as NH4NO3 (kg N ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921): 300 and 250 applied pre\uffe2\uff80\uff90plant; 250 applied pre\uffe2\uff80\uff90plant and sidedress; 185 applied pre\uffe2\uff80\uff90plant and sidedress; 125 applied pre\uffe2\uff80\uff90plant and sidedress; and 0. Porous\uffe2\uff80\uff90cup tensiometers and solution samplers were installed in each of the four highest N treatments. Soil solution samples were collected during the 2001 and 2002 growing seasons. Maximum corn grain yield was achieved with 125 or 185 kg N ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921, regardless of the irrigation schedule (IS). The 1.25\uffc3\uff97 IS exacerbated the amount of NO3 leached below the 152\uffe2\uff80\uff90cm depth in the preplant N treatments, with a mean of 146 kg N ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921 for the 250 and 300 kg N preplant applications compared with 12 kg N ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921 for the same N treatments and 1.0\uffc3\uff97 IS. With 185 kg N ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921, the 1.25\uffc3\uff97 IS treatment resulted in 74 kg N ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921 leached compared with 10 kg N ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921 for the 1.0\uffc3\uff97 IS. Appropriate irrigation scheduling and N fertilizer rates are essential to improving N management practices on these sandy soils.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Nitrates", "Nitrogen", "Agriculture", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Kansas", "15. Life on land", "Silicon Dioxide", "Plant Roots", "Zea mays", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "Random Allocation", "Soil", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Fertilizers", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Gary A. Clark, John P. Schmidt, Loyd R. Stone, Alan J. Schlegel, Ronald J. Gehl,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.2134/jeq2005.0047"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Environmental%20Quality", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.2134/jeq2005.0047", "name": "item", "description": "10.2134/jeq2005.0047", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.2134/jeq2005.0047"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2005-11-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.2134/jeq2006.0547", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:18:30Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2008-01-05", "description": "Abstract<p>Nitrate (NO3) loss from arable systems to surface and groundwater has attracted considerable attention in recent years in Ireland. Little information exists under Irish conditions, which are wet and temperate, on the effects of winter cover crops and different tillage techniques on NO3 leaching. This study investigated the efficacy of such practices in reducing NO3 leaching from a spring barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) system in the Barrow River valley, southeast Ireland. The study compared the effect of two tillage systems (plow\uffe2\uff80\uff90based tillage and noninversion tillage) and two over\uffe2\uff80\uff90winter alternatives (no vegetative cover and a mustard cover crop) on soil solution NO3 concentrations at 90 cm depth over two winter drainage seasons (2003/04 and 2004/05). Soil samples were taken and analyzed for inorganic N. During both years of the study, the use of a mustard cover crop significantly reduced NO3 losses for the plowed and reduced cultivation treatments. Mean soil solution NO3 concentrations were between 38 and 70% lower when a cover crop was used, and total N load lost over the winter was between 18 and 83% lower. Results from this study highlight the importance of drainage volume and winter temperatures on NO3 concentrations in soil solution and overall N load lost. It is suggested that cover crops will be of particular value in reducing NO3 loss in temperate regions with mild winters, where winter N mineralization is important and high winter temperatures favor a long growing season.</p>", "keywords": ["Crops", " Agricultural", "2. Zero hunger", "Nitrates", "Nitrogen", "Rain", "Water Pollution", "Temperature", "Water", "Agriculture", "Hordeum", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "Soil", "13. Climate action", "Soil Pollutants", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Ireland", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.2134/jeq2006.0547"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Environmental%20Quality", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.2134/jeq2006.0547", "name": "item", "description": "10.2134/jeq2006.0547", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.2134/jeq2006.0547"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2008-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.2134/jeq2007.0197", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:18:30Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2008-02-12", "description": "Abstract<p>Within Canada, it has been recognized in the last decade that military training activities may have impacts on the environmental quality of training ranges. However, impacts of activities specific to Air Force Bases have not yet been intensely documented. A hydrogeological study was accomplished at the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range, Alberta, to evaluate the environmental impacts of using bombs, rockets, strafing, and open burning/open detonation (OB/OD) on the quality of soil, ground water, surface water, and lake sediments. Samples were analyzed for metals, anions, ammonium perchlorate (NH4ClO4), and energetic materials (EM). It was found that training activities did not result in measured values being exceeded on the basis of guidance values for surface water and lake sediments. Contamination by metals was mostly limited to soils, and some metals may be related to the use of bombs (Cd, Cu, Pb), strafe (Cu), and rockets (As, Ba, Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Ni, Pb, U, V, Zn). TNT (2,4,6\uffe2\uff80\uff90trinitrotoluene) was the main EM found in soils, while RDX (hexahydro\uffe2\uff80\uff901,3,5\uffe2\uff80\uff90trinitro\uffe2\uff80\uff901,3,5\uffe2\uff80\uff90triazine) was more common in ground water. Both are related to live bombing, while nitroglycerine (NG) is related to rocket use and was detected in soils only. Aluminum, nitrate, and ammonium perchlorate detected in ground water may be related to live bombing or rockets. OB/OD operations resulted in the presence of various EM in soils, and of perchlorate and nitrate in ground water. Contamination by metals and explosives in soils was localized around the targets and varied significantly in time; however, in ground water it was more constant and may persist for a period of several years after a target has been removed.</p>", "keywords": ["Anions", "Geologic Sediments", "550", "lake sediments", "Fresh Water", "Environment", "01 natural sciences", "Alberta", "Explosive Agents", "Water Supply", "Soil Pollutants", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "Nitrates", "Perchlorates", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "nitroglycerine", "ammonium perchlorate", "Quaternary Ammonium Compounds", "Metals", "13. Climate action", "open detonation", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Weapons", "Water Pollutants", " Chemical", "Environmental Monitoring", "Trinitrotoluene"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.2134/jeq2007.0197"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Environmental%20Quality", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.2134/jeq2007.0197", "name": "item", "description": "10.2134/jeq2007.0197", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.2134/jeq2007.0197"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2008-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.2134/jeq2012.0019", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:18:31Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2012-09-17", "title": "Biochar And Nitrogen Fertilizer Alters Soil Nitrogen Dynamics And Greenhouse Gas Fluxes From Two Temperate Soils", "description": "<p>Biochar (BC) application to agricultural soils could potentially sequester recalcitrant C, increase N retention, increase water holding capacity, and decrease greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Biochar addition to soils can alter soil N cycling and in some cases decrease extractable mineral N (NO3\uffe2\uff88\uff92 and NH4+) and N2O emissions. These benefits are not uniformly observed across varying soil types, N fertilization, and BC properties. To determine the effects of BC addition on N retention and GHG flux, we added two sizes (&gt;250 and &lt;250 \uffc2\uffb5m) of oak\uffe2\uff80\uff90derived BC (10% w/w) to two soils (aridic Argiustoll and aquic Haplustoll) with and without N fertilizer and measured extractable NO3\uffe2\uff88\uff92 and NH4+ and GHG efflux (N2O, CO2, and CH4) in a 123\uffe2\uff80\uff90d laboratory incubation. Biochar had no effect on NO3\uffe2\uff88\uff92, NH4+, or N2O in the unfertilized treatments of either soil. Biochar decreased cumulative extractable NO3\uffe2\uff88\uff92 in N fertilized treatments by 8% but had mixed effects on NH4+. Greenhouse gas efflux differed substantially between the two soils, but generally with N fertilizer BC addition decreased N2O 3 to 60%, increased CO2 10 to 21%, and increased CH4 emissions 5 to 72%. Soil pH and total treatment N (soil + fertilizer + BC) predicted soil N2O flux well across these two different soils. Expressed as CO2 equivalents, BC significantly reduced GHG emissions only in the N\uffe2\uff80\uff90fertilized silt loam by decreasing N2O flux. In unfertilized soils, CO2 was the dominant GHG component, and the direction of the flux was mediated by positive or negative BC effects on soil CO2 flux. On the basis of our data, the use of BC appears to be an effective management strategy to reduce N leaching and GHG emissions, particularly in neutral to acidic soils with high N content.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Nitrates", "Nitrogen", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water", "12. Responsible consumption", "Quaternary Ammonium Compounds", "Soil", "13. Climate action", "Charcoal", "11. Sustainability", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Gases", "Fertilizers", "Methane"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.2134/jeq2012.0019"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Environmental%20Quality", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.2134/jeq2012.0019", "name": "item", "description": "10.2134/jeq2012.0019", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.2134/jeq2012.0019"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2012-09-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.2134/jeq2012.0250", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:18:31Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2012-11-14", "title": "Biochar Reduces Short-Term Nitrate Leaching From A Horizon In An Apple Orchard", "description": "Nitrogen leaching in croplands is a worldwide problem with implications both on human health and on the environment. Efforts should be taken to increase nutrient use efficiency and minimize N losses from terrestrial to water ecosystems. Soil-applied biochar has been reported to increase soil fertility and decrease nutrient leaching in tropical soils and under laboratory conditions. Our objective was to evaluate the effect of biochar addition on short-term N leaching from A soil horizon in a mature apple orchard growing on subalkaline soils located in the Po Valley (Italy). In spring 2009, 10 Mg of biochar per hectare was incorporated into the surface 20-cm soil layer by soil plowing. Cumulative nitrate (NO) and ammonium (NH) leaching was measured in treated and control plots 4 mo after the addition of biochar and the following year by using ion-exchange resin lysimeters installed below the plowed soil layer. Cumulative NO leaching was not affected by biochar after 4 mo, whereas in the following year it was significantly ( < 0.05) reduced by 75% over the control (from 5.5 to 1.4 kg ha). Conversely, NH leaching was very low and unaffected by soil biochar treatment. The present study shows that soil biochar addition can significantly decrease short-term nitrate leaching from the surface layer of a subalkaline soil under temperate climatic conditions.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Soil", "Nitrates", "Nitrogen", "13. Climate action", "NITROGEN; soil microbial biomass; CHARCOAL; Fumigation-extraction; AMENDMENTS", "Malus", "Soil Pollutants", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.2134/jeq2012.0250"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Environmental%20Quality", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.2134/jeq2012.0250", "name": "item", "description": "10.2134/jeq2012.0250", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.2134/jeq2012.0250"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.2134/jeq2012.0341", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:18:31Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-04-02", "title": "Biochar Diminishes Nitrous Oxide And Nitrate Leaching From Diverse Nutrient Sources", "description": "Manure generated by intensive livestock operations poses potential ecological risk in the form of water pollution and greenhouse gas emission. To assess the impact of biochar on coarse-textured soils under contrasting nutrient management regimes, a 55-d incubation was conducted using unplanted soil columns amended with manure, slurry, or fertilizer (plus unamended control), each with or without biochar applied at 2% soil mass (dry weight basis). Under repeated leaching, the cumulative NO emission from the columns was significantly affected by the presence of biochar ( < 0.0001), although these data were not normally distributed. Results indicated that the biochar-amended soils emitted significantly less NO than their unamended counterparts, with the exception of manure-amended soils. The presence of biochar increased the pH of column leachate by 0.08 to 1.70 and significantly decreased the cumulative amount of mineral N leached from the soil. The presence of biochar significantly increased the amount of PO-P in soil leachate, but there was no significant difference between the means for any of the amendments used on their own relative to their biochar-amended counterparts. The data demonstrate that biochar could potentially aid in the mitigation of NO emissions from certain soils and in N loss in leachate from soil amended with slurry, manure, or fertilizer used in livestock systems.", "keywords": ["Manure", "2. Zero hunger", "Soil", "Nitrates", "13. Climate action", "Nitrous Oxide", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Fertilizers", "6. Clean water"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.2134/jeq2012.0341"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Environmental%20Quality", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.2134/jeq2012.0341", "name": "item", "description": "10.2134/jeq2012.0341", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.2134/jeq2012.0341"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-05-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3168/jds.2010-3281", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:18:51Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2010-11-21", "title": "Nitrate And Sulfate: Effective Alternative Hydrogen Sinks For Mitigation Of Ruminal Methane Production In Sheep", "description": "Twenty male crossbred Texel lambs were used in a 2 \u00d7 2 factorial design experiment to assess the effect of dietary addition of nitrate (2.6% of dry matter) and sulfate (2.6% of dry matter) on enteric methane emissions, rumen volatile fatty acid concentrations, rumen microbial composition, and the occurrence of methemoglobinemia. Lambs were gradually introduced to nitrate and sulfate in a corn silage-based diet over a period of 4 wk, and methane production was subsequently determined in respiration chambers. Diets were given at 95% of the lowest ad libitum intake observed within one block in the week before methane yield was measured to ensure equal feed intake of animals between treatments. All diets were formulated to be isonitrogenous. Methane production decreased with both supplements (nitrate: -32%, sulfate: -16%, and nitrate+sulfate: -47% relative to control). The decrease in methane production due to nitrate feeding was most pronounced in the period immediately after feeding, whereas the decrease in methane yield due to sulfate feeding was observed during the entire day. Methane-suppressing effects of nitrate and sulfate were independent and additive. The highest methemoglobin value observed in the blood of the nitrate-fed animals was 7% of hemoglobin. When nitrate was fed in combination with sulfate, methemoglobin remained below the detection limit of 2% of hemoglobin. Dietary nitrate decreased heat production (-7%), whereas supplementation with sulfate increased heat production (+3%). Feeding nitrate or sulfate had no effects on volatile fatty acid concentrations in rumen fluid samples taken 24h after feeding, except for the molar proportion of branched-chain volatile fatty acids, which was higher when sulfate was fed and lower when nitrate was fed, but not different when both products were included in the diet. The total number of rumen bacteria increased as a result of sulfate inclusion in the diet. The number of methanogens was reduced when nitrate was fed. Enhanced levels of sulfate in the diet increased the number of sulfate-reducing bacteria. The number of protozoa was not affected by nitrate or sulfate addition. Supplementation of a diet with nitrate and sulfate is an effective means for mitigating enteric methane emissions from sheep.", "keywords": ["Male", "Rumen", "reduction", "in-vitro", "nitrogen", "Random Allocation", "fumaric-acid", "Animals", "Intestinal Mucosa", "real-time pcr", "2. 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Twenty lactating Holstein-Friesian dairy cows (33.2\u00b16.0 kg of milk/d; 104\u00b158 d in milk at the start of the experiment) were fed a total mixed ration (corn silage-based; forage to concentrate ratio 66:34), containing either a dietary urea or a dietary nitrate source [21 g of nitrate/kg of dry matter (DM)] during 4 successive 24-d periods, to assess the methane-mitigating potential of dietary nitrate and its persistency. The study was conducted as paired comparisons in a randomized design with repeated measurements. Cows were blocked by parity, lactation stage, and milk production at the start of the experiment. A 4-wk adaptation period allowed the rumen microbes to adapt to dietary urea and nitrate. Diets were isoenergetic and isonitrogenous. Methane production, energy balance, and diet digestibility were measured in open-circuit indirect calorimetry chambers. Cows were limit-fed during measurements. Nitrate persistently decreased methane production by 16%, whether expressed in grams per day, grams per kilogram of dry matter intake (DMI), or as percentage of gross energy intake, which was sustained for the full experimental period (mean 368 vs. 310\u00b112.5 g/d; 19.4 vs. 16.2\u00b10.47 g/kg of DMI; 5.9 vs.4.9\u00b10.15% of gross energy intake for urea vs. nitrate, respectively). This decrease was smaller than the stoichiometrical methane mitigation potential of nitrate (full potential=28% methane reduction). The decreased energy loss from methane resulted in an improved conversion of dietary energy intake into metabolizable energy (57.3 vs. 58.6\u00b10.70%, urea vs. nitrate, respectively). Despite this, milk energy output or energy retention was not affected by dietary nitrate. Nitrate did not affect milk yield or apparent digestibility of crude fat, neutral detergent fiber, and starch. Milk protein content (3.21 vs. 3.05\u00b10.058%, urea vs. nitrate respectively) but not protein yield was lower for dietary nitrate. Hydrogen production between morning and afternoon milking was measured during the last experimental period. Cows fed nitrate emitted more hydrogen. Cows fed nitrate displayed higher blood methemoglobin levels (0.5 vs. 4.0\u00b11.07% of hemoglobin, urea vs. nitrate respectively) and lower hemoglobin levels (7.1 vs. 6.3\u00b10.11 mmol/L, urea vs. nitrate respectively). Dietary nitrate persistently decreased methane production from lactating dairy cows fed restricted amounts of feed, but the reduction in energy losses did not improve milk production or energy balance.", "keywords": ["combination", "2. 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The sensitivity analysis was aimed at verifying the model stability, understanding the model structure and individuating the model parameters to be further optimized. The mass specific area of the sulfur particles (a*) and hydrolysis kinetic constant (k1) were identified as the dominant parameters on the model outputs, i.e. nitrate (NO3\uffe2\uff88\uff92), NO2\uffe2\uff88\uff92 and sulfate (SO42\uffe2\uff88\uff92) concentrations, confirming that the microbially catalyzed S0 hydrolysis is the rate-limiting step during S0-driven denitrification. Additionally, the maximum growth rates of the denitrifying biomass on NO3\uffe2\uff88\uff92 and NO2\uffe2\uff88\uff92 were detected as the most sensitive kinetic parameters.</p>", "keywords": ["Elemental sulfur", "Environmental Engineering", "0207 environmental engineering", "Biological surface-based hydrolysis; Elemental sulfur; Mathematical modeling; Sensitivity analysis; Two-step autotrophic denitrification; Environmental Engineering; Water Science and Technology", "02 engineering and technology", "01 natural sciences", "Two-step autotrophic denitrification", "Bioreactors", "European Joint Doctorates", "European Commission", "Knowmad Institut", "Biological surface-based hydrolysis", "Nitrites", "Netherlands", "Water Science and Technology", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "Aurora Universities Network", "EC", "Nitrates", "H2020", "Energy Research", "13. Climate action", "Denitrification", "Mathematical modeling", "Sensitivity analysis", "Sulfur"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.iris.unina.it/bitstream/11588/724909/2/2018%20-%20Kostrytsia%20et%20al.%20-%20Water%20Science%20%26%20Technology%20-%20Sensitivity%20analysis%20for%20S0-based%20denitrification%20model.pdf"}, {"href": "http://iwaponline.com/wst/article-pdf/78/6/1296/504647/wst078061296.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2018.398"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Water%20Science%20and%20Technology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.2166/wst.2018.398", "name": "item", "description": "10.2166/wst.2018.398", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.2166/wst.2018.398"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-09-20T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.23986/afsci.5661", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:18:46Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-07-12", "description": "<p>Nitrogen (N) leaching from spring barley with and without undersown Italian ryegrass was studied in Jokioinen, south-western Finland during five years (summer 1993&#150;spring 1998) in 1.7 m deep lysimeters (\uffc3\uff980.9 m) filled to 1.1 m with clay, silt, sand and peat soil. Tillage was performed in mid- October or in May, before sowing of the barley and ryegrass for the next season. In the second, third and fourth years of the experiment, total N leaching from barley without undersown ryegrass was 15, 7.9,32 and 38 kg ha-1 y-1 in clay, silt, sand and peat soil, respectively. Undersowing reduced N leaching by 52,31,68 and 27%. The reduction in N leaching from clay and sand when barley was undersown with ryegrass was nearly the same as the increased total uptake of N (barley +ryegrass).In sand soil, ryegrass was able to diminish the NO 3-N concentration of the drainage water well below the limit for acceptable drinking water. Spring tillage reduced N leaching only on peat soil (16%). Slight competition between the main and the undersown crop was indicated by lower N contents of the barley yield.;</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "syysmuokkaus", "nitrate nitrogen", "S", "nitraattityppi", "Agriculture (General)", "barley", "Agriculture", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "yield", "lysimetri", "kokonaistyppi", "630", "maalajit", "S1-972", "primary tillage", "total nitrogen", "lysimeter", "soil type", "sato", "ohra", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Ka"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Lemola, Riitta, Turtola, Eila, Eriksson, Christian,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.23986/afsci.5661"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Agricultural%20and%20Food%20Science", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.23986/afsci.5661", "name": "item", "description": "10.23986/afsci.5661", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.23986/afsci.5661"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2000-01-03T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.23986/afsci.7887", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:18:46Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-07-13", "title": "Biochar Can Restrict N2o Emissions And The Risk Of Nitrogen Leaching From An Agricultural Soil During The Freeze-Thaw Period", "description": "<p>Freeze-thaw (FT) events in soils can cause a burst of nitrous oxide (N2O) and enhance N leaching during the spring-thaw event. We studied whether a soil amended with wood-derived (spruce chips) biochar (10 tonnes ha-1), produced at rather low temperatures (400-450\uffc2\uffb0C), could reduce the burst of N2O and the risk of N leaching from an agricultural soil after a FT event. A short-term laboratory experiment (4 weeks) was conducted with 24 vegetated (Phleum pratense) mesocosms (12 controls, 12 biochar-treated) that had spent a dormant season in the dark at 15\uffc2\uffb0C for two months after the growing season. N2O efflux to the atmosphere and ammonium (NH4+-N) and nitrate (NO3-N) in the percolated soil water were monitored before and after the FT event. N2O was monitored with the dark chamber method and analyzed using a gas chromatograph. We found that soil amended biochar can significantly diminish the burst of N2O after the soil FT event (by 61% just after FT event) and substantially reduce the risk of NO3-N and NH4+-N leaching from the agricultural soil. Compared to the control, the decrement in concentrations of NO3-N and NH4+-N in water percolated through the biochar amended soil in the mesocosms was 58% and 22%, respectively.  </p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "leachate", "S", "Agriculture (General)", "Agriculture", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "N2O efflux", "6. Clean water", "S1-972", "ammonium", "nitrate", "13. Climate action", "freeze-thaw", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.23986/afsci.7887"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Agricultural%20and%20Food%20Science", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.23986/afsci.7887", "name": "item", "description": "10.23986/afsci.7887", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.23986/afsci.7887"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-12-18T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.2527/jas.2011-4209", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:18:48Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2012-01-28", "title": "Dietary Nitrate Supplementation Reduces Methane Emission In Beef Cattle Fed Sugarcane-Based Diets", "description": "The objective of this study was to determine the effect of dietary nitrate on methane emission and rumen fermentation parameters in Nellore \u00d7 Guzera (Bos indicus) beef cattle fed a sugarcane based diet. The experiment was conducted with 16 steers weighing 283 \u00b1 49 kg (mean \u00b1 SD), 6 rumen cannulated and 10 intact steers, in a cross-over design. The animals were blocked according to BW and presence or absence of rumen cannula and randomly allocated to either the nitrate diet (22 g nitrate/kg DM) or the control diet made isonitrogenous by the addition of urea. The diets consisted of freshly chopped sugarcane and concentrate (60:40 on DM basis), fed as a mixed ration. A 16-d adaptation period was used to allow the rumen microbes to adapt to dietary nitrate. Methane emission was measured using the sulfur hexafluoride tracer technique. Dry matter intake (P = 0.09) tended to be less when nitrate was present in the diet compared with the control, 6.60 and 7.05 kg/d DMI, respectively. The daily methane production was reduced (P < 0.01) by 32% when steers were fed the nitrate diet (85 g/d) compared with the urea diet (125 g/d). Methane emission per kilogram DMI was 27% less (P < 0.01) on the nitrate diet (13.3 g methane/kg DMI) than on the control diet (18.2 g methane/kg DMI). Methane losses as a fraction of gross energy intake (GEI) were less (P < 0.01) on the nitrate diet (4.2% of GEI) than on the control diet (5.9% of GEI). Nitrate mitigated enteric methane production by 87% of the theoretical potential. The rumen fluid ammonia-nitrogen (NH(3)-N()) concentration was significantly greater (P < 0.05) for the nitrate diet. The total concentration of VFA was not affected (P = 0.61) by nitrate in the diet, while the proportion of acetic acid tended to be greater (P = 0.09), propionic acid less (P = 0.06) and acetate/propionate ratio tended to be greater (P = 0.06) for the nitrate diet. Dietary nitrate reduced enteric methane emission in beef cattle fed sugarcane based diet.", "keywords": ["sheep", "Rumen", "Sulfur Hexafluoride", "urea", "mitigation", "Ammonia", "Animals", "Urea", "wall", "nitrite", "2. 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As resources are finite, the most feasible way to meet this demand is to minimize losses and improving efficiency. Regular monitoring of factors like animal health, soil and water quality for example, can ensure that the resources are being used to their maximum efficiency. Existing monitoring techniques however have limitations, such as portability, turnaround time and requirement for additional reagents. In this work, we explore the use of micro and nano scale electrode devices, for the development of electrochemical sensing platform to digitalize a wide range of applications within the Agri-food sector. With this platform, we demonstrate the direct electrochemical detection of pesticides, specifically clothianidin and imidacloprid with detection limits of 0.22 ng/mL and 2.14 ng/mL respectively, and nitrates with a detection limit of 0.2 \u00b5M. In addition, interdigitated electrode structures also enable an in-situ pH control technique to mitigate pH as an interference and modify analyte response. This technique is applied to the analysis of monochloramine, a common water disinfectant. Concerning biosensing, the sensors are modified with biomolecular probes for the detection of both bovine viral diarrhea virus particles and antibodies, over a range of 1 ng/mL to 10 \u00b5g/mL. Finally, a portable analogue front end electronic reader is developed to allow portable sensing, with control and readout undertaken using a smart phone application. Finally, the sensor chip platform is integrated with these electronics to provide a fully functional end-to-end smart sensor system compatible with emerging AgriFood digital decision support tools.</p></article>", "keywords": ["Ph control", "TP1-1185", "02 engineering and technology", "01 natural sciences", "7. 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