NASA Logo

NTRS

NTRS - NASA Technical Reports Server

Back to Results
Soil emissions of nitric oxide in a seasonally dry tropical forest of MexicoSoil emissions of NO were measured at the Chamela Biological Station, Mexico, using soil covers and a field apparatus of NO detection based on CrO3 conversion of NO to NO2 and detection of NO2 by chemiluminescence with Luminol. Mean NO fluxes from forest soils ranged from 0.14 to 0.52 ng NO-N/sq cm/hr during the dry season and from 0.73 to 1.27 ng NO-N/sq cm/hr during the wet season. A fertilized floodplain pasture exhibited higher fluxes, but an unfertilized upland pasture, which represents the fastest growing land use in the region, had flux rates similar to the forest sites. Wetting experiments at the end of the dry season caused large pulses of NO flux, equaling 10 percent to 20 percent of the estimated annual NO emissions of 0.5-1.0 kg N/ha from the forest sites. Absence of a forest canopy during the dry season and the first wet season rain probably results in substantial NO(x) export from the forest system that may be important to regional atmospheric chemical processes. Wetting experiments during the wet season and a natural rain event had little or no stimulatory effect on NO flux rates.
Document ID
19910066689
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Davidson, Eric A.
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA; Woods Hole Research Center, MA, United States)
Vitousek, Peter M.
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Riley, Ralph
(Stanford University CA, United States)
Matson, Pamela A.
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Garcia-Mendez, Georgina
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Maass, J. M.
(Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Coyoacan, Mexico)
Date Acquired
August 14, 2013
Publication Date
August 20, 1991
Publication Information
Publication: Journal of Geophysical Research
Volume: 96
ISSN: 0148-0227
Subject Category
Geophysics
Accession Number
91A51312
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other

Available Downloads

There are no available downloads for this record.
No Preview Available