Using a boundary line approach to analyze N2O flux data from agricultural soils
Tóm tắt
Predicting the N2O flux from soils is difficult because of the complex interplay of the various processes involved. In this study a boundary line approach was used to apply results from mechanistic experiments to N2O flux data resulting from measurements on field scale in southern Germany. Boundary lines were fitted to the rim of the data points in scattergrams depicting readily obtainable soil variables against the measured N2O flux. The boundary line approach is based on the hypothesis that this line depicts the functional dependency between the two variables. For determining these boundary lines a novel method was applied. The function best representing the relationship between the N2O flux and soil temperature had a maximum above 23 °C and the one between the N2O flux and the water filled pore space (WFPS, to represent water content) had a maximum at 72% WFPS. In the range of 0–20 mg N kg-1 the relationship between N2O flux and nitrate in the soil was best described by a linear function, whereas in the range of 0–35 mg N kg-1 a Michaelis–Menten function was more appropriate. The boundary lines specified in this study are in agreement with existing theoretical concepts as well as experimental results obtained under controlled and field conditions as reported in the literature. Therefore, the boundary line approach can be used to improve empirical models for predicting the N2O flux in the field.
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