Mario Corrochano-Monsalve

Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea | UPV/EHU

Agricultural sustainability is compromised by nitrogen (N) losses caused by soil microbial activity. Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a potent greenhouse gas (GHG) produced as consequence of nitrification and denitrification processes in soils. Nitrification inhibitors (NI) as 3,4-dimethylpyrazole-succinic acid (DMPSA) are useful tools to reduce these N loss...

In agriculture, the applied nitrogen (N) can be lost in the environment in different forms because of microbial transformations. It is of special concern the nitrate (NO3⁻) leaching and the nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions, due to their negative environmental impacts. Nitrification inhibitors (NIs) based on dimethylpyrazole (DMP) are applied worldwide...

Urea fertilization is a widely spread source of nitrogen (N) for agriculture because of its easy accessibility. However, its use is highly inefficient, since a large amount of the applied N is lost to the environment mainly in the form of ammonia (NH3) volatilization, causing serious environmental and economic damages. Although there are simple str...

Nitrogen (N) input from fertilizers modifies the properties of agricultural soils as well as bacterial community diversity, composition and relationships. This can lead to negative impacts such as the deterioration of system multifunctionality, whose maintenance is critical to normal nutrient cycling. Synthetic nitrification inhibitors (NIs) can be...

Nitrogen (N) fertilization is crucial to sustain global food security, but fertilizer N production is energy-demanding and subsequent environmental N losses contribute to biodiversity loss and climate change. N losses can be mitigated be interfering with microbial nitrification, and therefore the use of nitrification inhibitors in enhanced efficien...

Nitrogen (N) fertilization is crucial to sustain global food security, but fertilizer N production is energy-demanding and subsequent environmental N losses contribute to biodiversity loss and climate change. To mitigate the environmental impact of N-fertilizers, nitrification inhibitors can be applied to produce so-called enhanced efficiency ferti...

Background Agriculture relies on the intensive use of synthetic nitrogen (N) fertilizers to maximize crop yields, which has led to the transformation of agricultural soils into high-nitrifying environments. Nevertheless, nitrification inhibitors (NIs) have been developed to suppress soil-nitrifier activity and decrease N losses. The NIs 3,4-dimethy...

Agriculture has increased the release of reactive nitrogen to the environment due to crops' low nitrogen-use efficiency (NUE) after the application of nitrogen-fertilisers. Practices like the use of stabilized-fertilisers with nitrification inhibitors such as DMPP (3,4-dimethylpyrazole phosphate) have been adopted to reduce nitrogen losses. Otherwi...

Background The increasing demand for food production has led to a tenfold increase in nitrogen (N) fertilizer use since the Green Revolution. Nowadays, agricultural soils have been turned into high-nitrifying environments that increase N pollution. To decrease N losses, synthetic nitrification inhibitors (SNIs) such as 3,4-dimethylpyrazole phosphat...

Nitrification inhibitors (NIs) are useful tools to reduce nitrogen (N) losses derived from fertilization in agriculture. However, it remains unclear whether a future climate scenario with elevated CO2 could affect NIs efficiency. Thus, the objective of this work was to study whether the increase of atmospheric CO2 concentration would affect the eff...

Enhanced-efficiency nitrogen (N) fertilizers, such as those containing nitrification or urease inhibitors, can mitigate the carbon (C) footprint linked to the production of bioenergy crops through a reduction in direct nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions and indirect N2O losses. These indirect emissions are derived from ammonia (NH3) volatilization, whic...

Nitrogen (N) applied with fertilizers is not efficiently used in agriculture. In the soil, this N is transformed into different compounds by means of several biological processes. As a result, there is a negative economic and environmental impact due to water contamination, via nitrate (NO3−) leaching, and greenhouse gasses emission, via nitrous ox...

In this work, we evaluate, in a winter wheat crop, the effect of two different land managements (CT and NT) and the use of the NI 3,4-dimethylpyrazolesuccinic acid (DMPSA) on N2O emissions. Under humid Mediterranean conditions, the addition of DMPSA to fertilizer allows to keep N2O emissions at the same level as in the unfertilized treatment in b...