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Nitrogen Cycle
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Sources
• Lightning• Inorganic fertilizers• Nitrogen Fixation• Animal Residues• Crop residues• Organic fertilizers
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Forms of Nitrogen
• Urea CO(NH2)2
• Ammonia NH3 (gaseous)• Ammonium NH4
• Nitrate NO3
• Nitrite NO2
• Atmospheric Dinitrogen N2
• Organic N
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Global Nitrogen ReservoirsNitrogen Reservoir
Metric tons nitrogen
Actively cycled
Atmosphere 3.9*1015 No
Ocean soluble salts
Biomass6.9*1011
5.2*108
YesYes
Land organic matter Biota
1.1*1011
2.5*1010
SlowYes
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Roles of Nitrogen
• Plants and bacteria use nitrogen in the form of NH4
+ or NO3-
• It serves as an electron acceptor in anaerobic environment
• Nitrogen is often the most limiting nutrient in soil and water.
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Nitrogen is a key element for
• amino acids• nucleic acids (purine, pyrimidine) • cell wall components of bacteria
(NAM).
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Nitrogen Cycles
• Ammonification/mineralization• Immobilization• Nitrogen Fixation • Nitrification• Denitrification
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R-NH2
NH4 NO2
NO3NO2
NO
N2O
N2
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Ammonification or Mineralization
R-NH2
NH4 NO2
NO3NO2
NO
N2O
N2
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Mineralization or Ammonification
• Decomposers: earthworms, termites, slugs, snails, bacteria, and fungi
• Uses extracellular enzymes initiate degradation of plant polymers
• Microorganisms uses:• Proteases, lysozymes, nucleases to
degrade nitrogen containing molecules
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• Plants die or bacterial cells lyse release of organic nitrogen
• Organic nitrogen is converted to inorganic nitrogen (NH3)
• When pH<7.5, converted rapidly to NH4
• Example:
Urea NH3 + 2 CO2
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Immobilization
• The opposite of mineralization• Happens when nitrogen is limiting in the
environment• Nitrogen limitation is governed by C/N
ratio• C/N typical for soil microbial biomass is
20• C/N < 20 Mineralization• C/N > 20 Immobilization
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Nitrogen Fixation
R-NH2
NH4 NO2
NO3NO2
NO
N2O
N2
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Nitrogen Fixation
• Energy intensive process :
• N2 + 8H+ + 8e- + 16 ATP = 2NH3 + H2 + 16ADP + 16 Pi
• Performed only by selected bacteria and actinomycetes
• Performed in nitrogen fixing crops (ex: soybeans)
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Microorganisms fixing
• Azobacter• Beijerinckia• Azospirillum• Clostridium• Cyanobacteria
• Require the enzyme nitrogenase
• Inhibited by oxygen
• Inhibited by ammonia (end product)
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Rates of Nitrogen Fixation
N2 fixing system Nitrogen Fixation (kg N/hect/year)
Rhizobium-legume 200-300
Cyanobacteria- moss
30-40
Rhizosphere associations
2-25
Free- living 1-2
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Applications to wetlands
• Occur in overlying waters• Aerobic soil• Anaerobic soil• Oxidized rhizosphere• Leaf or stem surfaces of plants
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Bacterial Fixation
• Occurs mostly in salt marshes• Is absent from low pH peat of
northern bogs• Cyanobacteria found in
waterlogged soils
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Nitrification
R-NH2
NH4 NO2
NO3NO2
NO
N2O
N2
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Nitrification
Two step reactions that occur together :
• 1rst step catalyzed by Nitrosomonas2 NH4
+ + 3 O2 2 NO2- +2 H2O+ 4 H+
• 2nd step catalyzed by Nitrobacter
• 2 NO2- + O2 2 NO3
-
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• Optimal pH is between 6.6-8.0
• If pH < 6.0 rate is slowed
• If pH < 4.5 reaction is inhibited
In which type of wetlands do you thing Nitrification occurs?
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Denitrification
R-NH2
NH4 NO2
NO3NO2
NO
N2O
N2
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Denitrification
• Removes a limiting nutrient from the environment
• 4NO3- + C6H12O6 2N2 + 6 H20
• Inhibited by O2
• Not inhibited by ammonia• Microbial reaction• Nitrate is the terminal electron
acceptor
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Looking at the Nitrogen cycle through the eye
of NH4
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Surface water
Oxidized layer
Reduced soil layer
[NH4] HIGH
Low [NH4]
Slow Diffusion
Biodegradation
C/N <20
C/N >20
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Surface water
Oxidized layer
Reduced soil layer
[NH4] HIGH
Low [NH4]
Slow Diffusion
nitrification
[NO3] high
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Surface water
Oxidized layer
Reduced soil layer
[NO3] high
Leaching
[NO3] Low
N2
Denitrification
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