NITROUS OXIDE FLUX FOLLOWING TROPICAL LAND CLEARING

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作者
Luizao, Flavio [1 ]
Matson, Pamelo [2 ]
Livingston, Gerald [2 ]
Luizao, Regina [1 ]
Vitousek, Peter [3 ]
机构
[1] Inst Nacl Pesquisas Amazonia, Dept Ecol, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
[2] NASA, Ames Res Ctr, Earth Syst Div, Moffett Field, CA 94305 USA
[3] Stanford Univ, Dept Biol Sci, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
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10.1029/GB003i003p00281
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X [环境科学、安全科学];
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08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
The importance of seasonal cycles of N2O flux from tropical ecosystems and the possibility that tropical deforestation could contribute to the ongoing global increase in N2O concentrations were assessed by measuring N2O flux from forest, cleared land, and pasture over an annual cycle in the central Amazon. A pasture that had been converted from tropical forest had threefold greater annual N2O flux than a paired forest site; similar results were obtained in spot measurements in other pastures. If these results are general, such tropical pastures represent a globally significant source of increased N2O.
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