Nitrous oxide emissions from soil amended with glucose, alfalfa, or corn residues
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions result from the nitrification and denitrification processes, the latter strongly affected by soil organic carbon (C) derived from plant residues. This study addressed two questions: (1) does plant residue C become less available to denitrifiers after a period of aerobic incubation, and (2) do plant residues with smaller particle sizes provide C for higher rates of N2O production due to a faster decomposition rate? Nitrous oxide fluxes from soil amended with alfalfa or corn residues, or glucose were measured in the laboratory using a gas flow‐through chamber system. Soil amended with these C substrates was also subjected to a 5‐d aerobic preincubation treatment. The significance of particle size on C availability was studied by comparing N2O released from soil amended with ground (particle size <1 mm) and large pieces (5‐cm lengths) of alfalfa residues. A 5‐d aerobic preincubation of soil amended with plant residues resulted in reduced N2O production during a subsequent anaerobic period. Results suggested that, due to consumption of the most available substrate, remaining C in plant residues is less available to denitrifiers after a period of aerobic incubation. Higher N2O losses were found with large alfalfa particles than with ground alfalfa.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".