Mitigating N₂O emissions from agricultural soils with fungivorous mites.

ABSTRACT: Nitrous oxide (N₂O) is an important greenhouse gas and an ozone-depleting substance. Due to the long persistence of N₂O in the atmosphere, the mitigation of anthropogenic N₂O emissions, which are mainly derived from microbial N₂O-producing processes, including nitrification and denitrification by bacteria, archaea, and fungi, in agricultural soils, is urgently necessary. Members of mesofauna affect microbial processes by consuming microbial biomass in soil. However, how microbial consumption affects N₂O emissions is largely unknown. Here, we report the significant role of fungivorous mites, the major mesofaunal group in agricultural soils, in regulating N₂O production by fungi, and the results can be applied to the mitigatio

SUBMITTER: Shen H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8319328 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature