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Soil Biology & Biochemistry

Continuous, Automated Nitrous Oxide Measurements from Paddy Soils Converted to Upland Crops

^a National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, 3-1-3 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8604, Japan
^b Rakuno Gakuen Univ., 582 Midori-cho, Bunkyodai, Ebetsu, Hokkaido 069-8501, Japan

^* Corresponding author (ssnn{at}niaes.affrc.go.jp)

Since rotation of irrigated rice (Oryza sativa L.) and upland crop cultivations is a major land use management widely conducted in Japan, dynamics of greenhouse gas emission from drained paddy fields are required to be clarified. In the present study, the seasonal courses of N₂O flux from a drained paddy field were measured continuously over one and a half years with an automated monitoring system at an interval of six times per day. The experimental paddy field with Gray lowland soil was drained and cultivated with two upland cropping systems: single cropping of upland rice and double cropping of soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merrill] and wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Unlike many of the previous studies, the increase in N₂O flux after fertilizer application was not distinctive, which suggests that the contribution of nitrification to the N₂O flux is relatively small in this field. Temporal peaks of N₂O flux were often observed after heavy rainfalls and harvest of the crops, which lasted for a few to approximately 15 d. In all the crop cultivations, high peaks of N₂O flux were observed when the crops were in the flowering to ripening stages, which suggests significant influence of crop development on N₂O flux. N₂O production in the rhizosphere or possible pathway for transport through the plant body is possible loss mechanisms. In particular, the amounts of N₂O flux during the flowering and ripening stages of the summer crops were significant and were most responsible for the cumulative N₂O emissions. Cumulative N₂O emissions increased 4.0 to 5.3 times by the land use change from paddy rice cultivation to upland crop cultivations.

Abbreviations: GC, gas chromatograph • SW, double cropping of soybean and wheat • UR, single cropping of upland rice • WFPS, water-filled pore space