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Nitrogen Isotope Compositions of Synthetic Fertilizer, Raw Livestock Manure Slurry, and Composted Livestock Manure  

Lim, Sang-Sun (Department of Rural & Biosystems Engineering, Institute of Agricultural Science & Technology, Chonnam National University)
Lee, Sang-Mo (National Instrumentation Center for Environmental Management, Seoul National University)
Lee, Seung-Heon (Rural Research Institute, Korea Rural Community Corporation)
Choi, Woo-Jung (Department of Rural & Biosystems Engineering, Institute of Agricultural Science & Technology, Chonnam National University)
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Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer / v.43, no.4, 2010 , pp. 453-457 More about this Journal
Abstract
To investigate the difference in N isotope ratio ($^{15}N/^{14}N$, expressed as ${\delta}^{15}N$) among N sources (synthetic fertilizer, livestock manure, and manure compost), eight synthetic fertilizer, four livestock manure, and thirty-seven compost samples were collected and analyzed for ${\delta}^{15}N$. The mean ${\delta}^{15}N$ values of N sources were $-1.5{\pm}0.5$‰ (range: -3.9 to +0.5‰) for synthetic fertilizer, $+6.3{\pm}0.4$‰ (+5.3 to +7.2‰) for manure, and $+16.0{\pm}0.4$‰ (+9.3 to +20.9‰) for compost. The lower ${\delta}^{15}N$ of synthetic fertilizer was attributed to its N source, atmospheric $N_2$ of which ${\delta}^{15}N$ is 0‰ Meanwhile, more $^{15}N$-enrichment of compost than manure was assumed to be resulted from N isotopic fractionation (faster loss of $^{14}N$-bearing compound than $^{15}N$) associated with N loss particularly via $NH_3$ volatilization during composting. Therefore, our study shows that ${\delta}^{15}N$ values could successfully serve in discriminating two major N sources (synthetic fertilizer and compost) in agricultural system.
Keywords
Livestock manure compost; Nitrogen isotope ratio; Nitrogen isotopic fractionation; Nitrogen source; Synthetic fertilizer;
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