Table 2 Soil extractable nitrate at 0 to 400 cm and soil N2O emissions from N fertilizer application treatments.

From: Deep soils modify environmental consequences of increased nitrogen fertilizer use in intensifying Amazon agriculture

Treatment

Lysimeter leached

(kg N ha−1 yr−1)

Deep Soil NO3 stock

(kg N ha−1)

NO3 leached to deep soil

(kg N ha−1 yr−1)

Maize N2O emission

(kg N ha−1 yr−1)

N2O emission factor (%)

0

0.21a

(0.03)

218a

(10.4)

0

0.27a

(0.04)

N.A.

80

0.28a

(0.10)

285a

(49.4)

68.5

(48.9)

0.45ab

(0.09)

0.23

120

0.18a

(0.04)

328a

(38.0)

88.0

(28.7)

0.38ab

(0.07)

0.10

160

0.23a

(0.04)

382a

(61.8)

144

(62.0)

0.58ab

(0.07)

0.20

200

0.28a

(0.06)

426a

(89.0)

148

(75.5)

0.75b

(0.17)

0.24

  1. Treatments with different lettered superscripts differ significantly based on a post-hoc Tukey HSD test. Values in parentheses are standard errors.