Search results for "Nitrification"
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Connaître les sols français pour mieux les gérer
2012
National audience
Ecology of N2O reducing bacteria in arable soils
2016
Nitrous oxide (N2O) is an important greenhouse gas (GHG) and the main ozone depleting substance. Agricultural soils are the main anthropogenic-induced source of this GHG. The concentration of N2O in the atmosphere is steadily increasing, but we still lack knowledge on the factors controlling its production and consumption in soils. The reduction of N2O to N2 by microorganisms harboring the N2O reductase gene (nosZ) is the only known biological process able to consume this GHG. Recent studies revealed a previously unknown clade of N2O-reducers which was shown to be important to the N2O sink capacity of soils. This thesis seeks to gain a greater understanding on the ecology of N2O-reducers in…
Laboratory kinetics of soil denitrification are useful to discriminate soils with potentially high levels of N2O emission on the field scale
2001
Les emissions de N 2 O, gaz a effet de serre, ont ete mesurees au cours d'essais au champ, sur des sols cultives dont un Rendzic Leptosol, un Eutric Leptosol, un Haplic Calcisol, un Haplic Luvisol et deux Gleyic Luvisols, et sur des sols cultives et en prairie, dont un Haplic Fluvisol et deux Gleyic Cambisols. En parallele, les cinetiques de production et de consommation de N 2 O au cours de la denitrification ont ete etudiees au laboratoire sur des suspensions de sol, au cours d'incubations anaerobies avec apport de NO 3 - et de N 2 O, en presence et en absence d'acetylene. Les sols qui emettent le plus de N 2 O « in situ », c'est-a-dire les Gleyic Luvisols cultives et les sols de prairie,…
N-cycling: Bridging microbial community ecology and terrestrial ecosystem functioning
2013
Communication orale invitée, résuméEAEcolDur; Microbial communities have a central role in ecosystem processes by driving the Earth's biogeochemical cycles.
Dénitrification et émission de N2O par des sols soumis à une fertilisation organique ou minérale. Cas des effluents porcins
2007
Les effets des apports à long terme (9 ans) de lisier de porc ou de nitrate d’ammonium sur l’activité énitrifiante, la production de N2O et le carbone organique du sol (C extractible, C de la biomasse microbienne et C organique total) ont été comparés sur des parcelles adjacentes à trois profondeurs différentes. L’activité dénitrifiante a été mesurée sur des cylindres de sol non remanié et sur des échantillons de sol tamisés avec la méthode à l’acétylène afin d’estimer la vitesse de dénitrification aux conditions du champ ou en conditions potentielles. Les applications de lisier ont eu un effet modéré sur les pools de C. La teneur en C organique total a été augmentée de 6,5% et la taille de…
Promenade among terrestrial denitrifiers: from genetics to ecology
2011
Mapping spatial patterns of denitrifiers at large scale
2010
Little information is available regarding the landscape-scale distribution of microbial communities and its environmental determinants. Here we combined molecular approaches and geostatistical modeling to explore spatial patterns of the denitrifying community at large scales. The distribution of denitrifrying community was investigated over 107 sites in Burgundy, a 31 500 km2 region of France, using a 16 X 16 km sampling grid. At each sampling site, the abundances of denitrifiers and 42 soil physico-chemical properties were measured. The relative contributions of land use, spatial distance, climatic conditions, time and soil physico-chemical properties to the denitrifier spatial distributio…
Technosols to reclaim industrial wastelands: depth distribution of abundance and activity of N-cycling microbial communities
2012
International audience; Construction of Technosols through assemblage of treated soil and recycled wastes is an innovative option for the restoration of degraded lands and re-use of industrial wastes. Recent studies have evidenced that Technosols could support soil functions such as primary production but the knowledge about other ecosystemic services, such as nutrient cycling, is limited. In this work, we investigated the abundance and the activity of microbial communities involved in N-cycling in different horizons (0–15, 15–35, 35–70 cm) of two types of Technosols constructed to reclaim an industrial wasteland. The estimation by real-time PCR of the abundances of the different microbial …
How agricultural practices affect the different bacterial communities involved in the denitrification process: the case of direct seeding in Madagasc…
2007
International audience
Loss in microbial diversity affects nitrogen cycling in soil
2013
National audience; Microbial communities have a central role in ecosystem processes by driving the Earth’s biogeochemical cycles. However, the importance of microbial diversity for ecosystem functioning is still debated. Here, we experimentally manipulated the soil microbial community using a dilution approach to analyze the functional consequences of diversity loss. A trait-centered approach was embraced using the denitrifiers as model guild due to their role in nitrogen cycling, a major ecosystem service. How various diversity metrics related to richness, eveness and phylogenetic diversity of the soil denitrifier community were affected by the removal experiment was assessed by 454 sequen…