New Method to Simulate Soil Freezing and Thawing Cycles for Studying Nitrous Oxide Flux
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Abstract
Field experiments are essential for elucidating the processes involved in N 2 O production during soil freezing/thawing (FT) cycles, but laboratory simulations can provide the advantage of controlled conditions. Past studies have used disturbed or undisturbed soil cores placed in a controlled temperature environment, so that FT occurred from the external surface to the inside of the core (omni‐directional method, OD). A new method of soil FT for simulating field conditions more closely in the laboratory was developed and its effect on N 2 O fluxes evaluated. Three methods were examined: OD, uni‐directional (UD) with the soil column surrounded by filled‐in soil, and a variant of UD with water accessible to the base of the core (UDW). The rate of soil cooling with time was significantly faster and similar at all depths (−0.29°C h −1 ) for OD, than for UD or UDW methods (−0.16°C h −1 at 1 cm, −0.10°C h −1 at 20 cm). This differential cooling resulted in a significant change in soil temperature with depth for UD and UDW methods 0.125°C cm −1 during freezing and −0.35°C cm −1 during thawing, but of only 0.04 and −0.02°C cm −1 for the OD method. Comparison with field temperature data indicated that the UD and UDW method more closely resembled the gradual top‐to‐bottom freezing of soil layers that occurs in field conditions (changes of −0.20°C h −1 at 1 cm; −0.05°C h −1 at 20 cm). Gravimetric water content in the frozen layer 0 to 20 mm in the UDW (60.6 g kg −1 ) was significantly higher than in UD (44.4 g kg −1 ) and OD (37.6 g kg −1 ) soil columns. Fluxes of N 2 O during thawing were significantly affected by the incubation method used, probably due to the intensity and duration of freezing, and the water content prevalent under each method with OD (13 ng N 2 O‐N m −2 s −1 ) > UDW (4.8 ng N 2 O‐N m −2 s −1 ) > UD (2.1 ng N 2 O‐N m −2 s −1 ). We conclude that the UD (and UDW) method allows for manipulation of FT in soil columns gradually layer‐by‐layer providing the conditions needed to link the site of N 2 O production in the soil profile with surface N 2 O fluxes in laboratory studies.
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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