『Abstract
An outdoor pot experiments was conducted to investigate the effects
of enhanced ultraviolet-B (UV-B) radiation on nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from soil-winter wheat systems.
The enhanced UV-B radiation treatments were simulated by 20% increase
in its intensity. N2O fluxes were measured
with a static opaque chamber-gas chromatograph method. The results
showed that enhanced UV-B radiation did not change the seasonal
patterns of N2O emissions. Compared to the
controls, the enhanced UV-B radiation reduced N2O
fluxes by 16.4% (p=0.015) during the elongation-booting stage,
while it had no significant effects on N2O
fluxes in the turning-green and heading-maturity phases. During
the turning green-overall heading span, the accumulative N2O was largely decreased by the enhanced UV-B
radiation (p<0.05). From the overall heading to maturity, however,
the effects of enhanced UV-B on N2O emissions
were not pronounced (p>0.10). At the elongation-booting stage,
enhanced UV-B increased soluble proteins content in leaves, NO3--N and NO4+-N
content in rhizosphere soil, and soil microbial biomass C (Cmic) and N (Nmic; p<0.05),
as well as microbial biomass C:N ratio changing from 5.0 to 6.8.
Our findings suggest that the effects of enhanced UV-B radiation
on N2O emissions differed with winter wheat
developmental stages. To assess the overall effects of enhanced
UV-B radiation on N2O emissions from agroecosystems,
nevertheless, more field measurements deserve to be carried out
in various cropping systems.
Keywords: Enhanced UV-B radiation; N2O flux;
Soil; Winter wheat』
1. Introduction
2. Materials and methods
2.1. Site and soil description
2.2. Pot experiments
2.3. UV-B radiation
2.4. Gas samples and measurements
2.5. Plant and soil samples analysis
3. Results
3.1. Seasonal change of N2O emissions
3.2. Enhanced UV-B affected N2O emissions
3.3. Enhanced UV-B affected crop properties
3.4. Enhanced UV-B affected soil properties
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
References