Microbial nitrate reduction to nitrite drives large HONO emissions at high soil moisture

Dianming Wu1, Marcus A. Horn2, Thomas Behrendt3, Jingsong Li4, Jeff A Cole5, Baohua Xie6, Xiaotang Ju7, Guo Li8, Michael Ermel3, Robert Oswald3, Janine Fröhlich-Nowoisky8, Peter Michael Hoor9, Chunsheng Hu10, Min Liu1, Meinrat O Andreae3,11, Ulrich Poeschl8, Yafang Cheng8, Hang Su8, Ivonne Trebs12, Bettina Weber8,13 and Matthias Soergel3, (1)East China Normal University, Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Sciences, Ministry of Education, School of Geographic Sciences, Shanghai, China, (2)Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institute for Microbiology, Hannover, Germany, (3)Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Biogeochemistry Department, Mainz, Germany, (4)Anhui University, Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronic Information Acquisition and Manipulation of Ministry of Education, Hefei, China, (5)University of Birmingham, School of Biosciences and Institute of Microbiology and Infection, Birmingham, United Kingdom, (6)Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes and Ecological Remediation, Yantai, China, (7)China Agricultural University, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China, (8)Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Multiphase Chemistry Department, Mainz, Germany, (9)Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Institute for Atmospheric Physics, Mainz, Germany, (10)Key Laboratory of Agricultural Water Resources, Center for Agricultural Resources Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences,, Shijiazhuang, China, (11)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, United States, (12)Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Environmental Research and Innovation (ERIN), Belvaux, Luxembourg, (13)University of Graz, Institute for Biology, Division of Plant Sciences, Graz, Austria