Abstract:As a major source of N2O emissions, cropland has been researched more, with precipitation and fertilization being considered as the natural and anthropogenic key factors that affecting N2O emissions in wheat fields, respectively. Given the low sampling frequency, most previous studies using the static chamber method may underestimate N2O emissions. Meanwhile, the potential interaction effect of precipitation and fertilization on cropland N2O emissions have been neglected. In this study, we reported the dynamics of N2O emissions and investigated the effects of precipitation and fertilization on N2O emission from wheat fields at different time scales based on the eddy covariance observation. Meanwhile, the Boosted Regression Trees method was adopted to quantify the precipitation and fertilization-related factors. The results showed that there were no obvious seasonal and diurnal variation patterns of N2O flux in wheat fields. The average daily N2O emission was N2O-N 666.5±669.4 μg/(m2?d) in this study, which was mainly released as a pulse. The ratios of precipitation and fertilization-induced pulses to total N2O emissions in wheat fields were 29.4% and 19.2%, respectively. Precipitation increased N2O emissions, and which responded rapidly to the precipitation events (mainly within a few hours after the precipitation). Meanwhile, the precipitation promotion could last 1–2 days. Fertilization also increased N2O emissions, but existed a one-week lag. Considering the interactive effects of precipitation and fertilization, precipitation events occurring within 1–8 days after fertilization significantly promoted the emission of N2O. Therefore, the interaction of precipitation and fertilization should not be neglected.