Volatilization of ammonia from urea applied to soil: Influence of hippuric acid and other constituents of livestock urine
Volatilization of ammonia from urea applied to soil: Influence of hippuric acid and other constituents of livestock urine
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DOI:
10.1016/0038-0717(89)90174-0
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发表时间:
1989
影响因子:
9.7
通讯作者:
D. Whitehead;D. R. Lockyer;N. Raistrick
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作者:
D. Whitehead;D. R. Lockyer;N. Raistrick
Ammonia volatilization from five nitrogenous constituents of urine, assessed over 8 days following their application to columns of soil, and expressed as a proportion of the N applied, decreased in the order: urea, allantoin, creatinine, creatine, hippuric acid. However, hippuric acid, when mixed with urea in solution at a concentration such that hippuric acid-N = 2.5% of urea-N, substantially increased the volatilization of ammonia from the urea, particularly during the first 2 days after application to soil. The presence of the hippuric acid also enhanced the increase in soil pH, measured 24 h after application of the solution, in comparison with urea alone. A concentration of hippuric acid twice that indicated above appeared to exceed the optimum for increasing volatilization. The other constituents of urine listed above had little if any effect on the volatilization of ammonia from urea. Volatilization was greatly influenced by the concentration of total N in solutions of urea plus hippuric acid: the proportion of the N that was volatilized increased with increasing concentration over the range 1–10 g N 1−1but declined at the highest concentration examined, 15gNl−1. With urea (10 gNl−1) plus hippuric acid (0.23gNl−1), the pH of the solution over the range 5.0–9.0 had no appreciable effect on the extent of volatilization, or on the pH of a soil-solution mixture measured 24 h after the addition. Salt concentration in the solution, examined as potassium chloride and potassium acetate, also had little, if any, effect. A solution containing urea (10 g Nl−1) plus hippuric acid (0.25 g Nl−1) and adjusted to pH 8 was much closer to cattle urine in the extent and pattern of ammonia volatilization over 8 days than was urea alone.