Mitigating NO emissions from agricultural soils with fungivorous mites.

Nitrous oxide (NO) is an important greenhouse gas and an ozone-depleting substance. Due to the long persistence of NO in the atmosphere, the mitigation of anthropogenic NO emissions, which are mainly derived from microbial NO-producing processes, including nitrification and denitrification by bacteria, archaea, and fungi, in agricultural soils, is urgently necessary. Members of mesofauna affect microbial processes by consuming microbial biomass in soil.