2015•Advanced materials researchOpen access
Effect of Biochar on NH3 Volatilization and N2O Emission in Brown Soil
Xiao Yi Cheng, Yu Lan, Zun Qi Liu, Xiao Lin Liu, Xu Yang, Jun Meng, Wen Fu Chen
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Abstract
In this study, we investigated the effect of biochar on NH3volatilization and N2O emission in brown soil by using enclosed acid absorbing method and static chamber-gas chromatograph method. The results showed that without fertilizing, there was no significant effect of biochar effect on NH3volatilization and N2O emissions but if biochar was combined with urea, a dramatic mitigation of which could be found. Biochar application was supposed to regulate urea-N transformation more easily than soil nitrogen. Under the conditions of this experiment, both NB20 (20 t·hm-2of biochar and conventional nitrogen fertilizer applied) and NB40 (40 t·hm-2of biochar and conventional nitrogen fertilizer applied) treatments reduced NH3volatilization and N2O emissions significantly. By contrast of NB0 (single urea), the accumulated NH3volatilization and N2O emissions of NB20 and NB40 decreased by 15.6% and 24.4% and by 21.76% and 19.56% respectively. Under conventional fertilization conditions (NB0), 10.35% of nitrogen in fertilizer was lost in the form of NH3and N2O, and compared with NB0, NB20 and NB40 reduced nitrogen gaseous loss from fertilizer by 2.76% and 4.12% respectively.