Abstract:To investigate the response of N2O emission to the gradually elevated CO2 concentration and the reduction of nitrogen addition in wheat fields, we conducted field experiments using Yangmai 22 as the experimental material. The experiments were carried out on a field equipped with an open-top gas chamber, forming an automatic CO2 concentration control platform. This setup allowed us to carefully monitor and control the CO2 levels throughout the experiment. A gradually elevated CO2 concentration (EC, an increase of 40 μmol.mol-1 year by year from 2016-2017 wheat growing season until 120 μmol.mol-1 in 2018-2019 growing season) was set up, compared to the ambient atmospheric CO2 concentration (AC). The amount of nitrogen fertilizer were set as the conventional nitrogen addition (N1, 25 g.m-2) and the reduction treatment (N2, 15 g.m-2). The sampling and flux determination of N2O were carried out by static camera obscura gas chromatography in wheat field. The results indicated that throughout the winter wheat growing period, the trend of N2O emission under different CO2 concentration and nitrogen fertilizer treatment was consistent, and the overall trend showed a fluctuating decline. The impact of gradually elevated CO2 concentration on N2O emission was found to be not significant during the winter wheat growing season. The nitrogen reduction treatment has shown effective in reducing N2O emission in wheat fields, resulting in a significant reduction of cumulative N2O emission by 45.2% (p=0.004) under atmospheric CO2 concentration. The impact of nitrogen reduction treatment on N2O emission was evident in winter wheat from the booting to milking stage. Under the combined effect of gradually elevated CO2 concentration and reduction of nitrogen fertilizer addition, nitrogen addition is the main factor affecting N2O emission in wheat fields.