The relative dominance of the competing pathways for ammonium, namely, the microbial processes of nitrification ($N$) and immobilisation ($I$), has been suggested as a major factor in controlling nitrogen losses from soils. In this paper we bring together data from four studies in arable and grassland soils to establish whether the ratio $N/I$ is correlated with measured or modelled nitrate loss in drainage water. Individually, measurements of gross nitrogen transformations did not explain the variation in nitrate leaching across all sites. However, amounts of nitrate lost by leaching were well correlated with $N/I$ for all sites. The relative importance of the pathways competing for mineralised nitrogen (expressed as $N/I$) was ch...
The possibility that long-term atmospheric nitrogen pollution and fertilization of forest soil may s...
Soils under pasture are subjected to repeated wetting and drying cycles in response to rainfall, irr...
In grassland ecosystems when ample organic N is present, both, mineralization and nitrification can ...
If applied N or mineralized organic matter N (conversion from organic to ammonium) would stay in the...
ABSTRACT The biogeochemical cycling of nitrogen has been studied in detail at a predominantly acid ...
Rainfall and irrigation promote to the formation of anaerobic zones in subtropical pasture soils, cr...
The biogeochemical cycling of nitrogen has been studied in detail at a predominantly acid grassland ...
In arable soils, the importance of denitrification, a respiratory process where nitrate (NO3-) is st...
Nitrification in soil converts relatively immobile ammonium-nitrogen (N) to highly mobile nitrate-N ...
A laboratory experiment was designed to challenge the idea that the ON ratio of forest soils may con...
Anthropogenic activities have caused an increase in levels of atmospherically derived ammonium (NH4+...
Microbial-mediated nitrogen (N) dynamics is not only a key process for crop productivity, but also a...
A quantitative knowledge of nitrogen cycle processes is required to design strategies for decreasing...
Higher plant diversity reduces nitrate leaching by complementary resource use, while its relation to...
Here we offer the first assessment of conditions conducive to dissimilatory nitrate reduction to amm...
The possibility that long-term atmospheric nitrogen pollution and fertilization of forest soil may s...
Soils under pasture are subjected to repeated wetting and drying cycles in response to rainfall, irr...
In grassland ecosystems when ample organic N is present, both, mineralization and nitrification can ...
If applied N or mineralized organic matter N (conversion from organic to ammonium) would stay in the...
ABSTRACT The biogeochemical cycling of nitrogen has been studied in detail at a predominantly acid ...
Rainfall and irrigation promote to the formation of anaerobic zones in subtropical pasture soils, cr...
The biogeochemical cycling of nitrogen has been studied in detail at a predominantly acid grassland ...
In arable soils, the importance of denitrification, a respiratory process where nitrate (NO3-) is st...
Nitrification in soil converts relatively immobile ammonium-nitrogen (N) to highly mobile nitrate-N ...
A laboratory experiment was designed to challenge the idea that the ON ratio of forest soils may con...
Anthropogenic activities have caused an increase in levels of atmospherically derived ammonium (NH4+...
Microbial-mediated nitrogen (N) dynamics is not only a key process for crop productivity, but also a...
A quantitative knowledge of nitrogen cycle processes is required to design strategies for decreasing...
Higher plant diversity reduces nitrate leaching by complementary resource use, while its relation to...
Here we offer the first assessment of conditions conducive to dissimilatory nitrate reduction to amm...
The possibility that long-term atmospheric nitrogen pollution and fertilization of forest soil may s...
Soils under pasture are subjected to repeated wetting and drying cycles in response to rainfall, irr...
In grassland ecosystems when ample organic N is present, both, mineralization and nitrification can ...