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. 2015 Jul 16;5:12153. doi: 10.1038/srep12153

Table 1. Cumulative indices for total extractable ammonium (c-tsNH4+), nitrite (c-NO2), nitrate (c-NO3), the sum of nitrite and nitrate (c- [NO2 + NO3 ]), actual N2O production rate (c-aN2O), acidity (c-H+) and solution-phase ammonium (c-slNH4+) and ammonia (c-slNH3) as affected by soil type and rate of bovine urine (BU) in Series 1 experiments.

Soil BU added (mg N kg−1)
600 800 1000 1200
c-tNH4+ (g N d kg−1)
L 5.48 D 8.78 C 12.42 B 18.05 A
W 6.28 D 7.21 C 12.12 B 15.61 A
P > |t| <0.001§ <0.001 0.216 <0.001
c-NO2 (mg N d kg−1)
L 23.95 D 59.55 C 209.37 B 761.04 A
W 15.43 B 18.72 B 72.64 A 94.38 A
P > |t| 0.005 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001
c-NO3 (g N d kg−1)
L 5.35 A 5.53 A 5.43 A 3.64 B
W 5.56 B 6.03 AB 6.22 AB 6.25 A
P > |t| 0.502 0.128 0.023 <0.001
c-(NO2 + NO3) (g N d kg−1)
L 5.38 A 5.59 A 5.64 A 4.40 B
W 5.57 B 6.05AB 6.29 A 6.35 A
P > |t| 0.448 0.102 0.029 <0.001
c-H+ (mol H+ d kg−1)
L 0.315 A 0.295 A 0.256 B 0.129 C
W 0.267 A 0.274 A 0.243AB 0.221 B
P > |t| 0.010 0.217 0.433 <0.001
c-aN2O (mg N2O-N kg−1)
L 0.90 D 1.72 C 2.90 B 8.08 A
W 0.44 B 0.52 B 1.10 A 1.29 A
P > |t| 0.005 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001
c-slNH4+ (g N d kg−1)
L 0.94 D 2.02 C 4.45 B 10.29 A
W 0.35 C 0.41 C 0.74 B 1.01 A
P > |t| 0.020 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001
c-slNH3 (mg N d kg−1)
L 0.72 D 1.99 C 8.79 B 50.26 A
W 0.055 C 0.11 C 0.76 B 3.70 A
P > |t| <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001

Within a row, means followed by the same letter are not significantly different at P ≤ 0.05.

§Significance of t test comparing the means from the two soils for a given rate of BU addition.