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Abstract. Results of the Representative Soil Sampling Scheme between 1978 and 1988 show that soil acidity remains widespread, particularly in Wales, and suggest that the proportions of grassland with low pH increased during this period in the traditional grassland areas of England and Wales.
Average soil nutrient levels changed little over the decade. However, at least one in five grassland fields are likely to suffer yield restrictions because of shortage of soil P or K (index 0). One in four arable fields were found to be at index 1 for K, indicating that many crops are being grown at potassium levels which can be described as borderline. On the other hand, 22% of arable crops were grown at phosphate index levels in excess of 3, so phosphate savings could be made on many crops. Texture and calcium carbonate levels and their relationships with nutrient levels are also examined. 相似文献
Average soil nutrient levels changed little over the decade. However, at least one in five grassland fields are likely to suffer yield restrictions because of shortage of soil P or K (index 0). One in four arable fields were found to be at index 1 for K, indicating that many crops are being grown at potassium levels which can be described as borderline. On the other hand, 22% of arable crops were grown at phosphate index levels in excess of 3, so phosphate savings could be made on many crops. Texture and calcium carbonate levels and their relationships with nutrient levels are also examined. 相似文献
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B. M. Church 《Soil Use and Management》1985,1(1):20-20
Abstract. Survey information on the use of lime in England and Wales between 1974 and 1983 shows year-to-year fluctutions but no marked trend. Areas limed per year are compared for different types of region and cropping, and estimates given of the percentages of agricultural soils by pH according to rotation type. There was no general change in soil acidity between 1969–73 and 1974–78 but recent data show some reductions in grassland pH. 相似文献
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Abstract. Knowledge of the stocks and the potential range of soil organic carbon (SOC) in various land–soil combinations is an important precursor to policies aimed at linking, for example, management of SOC to greenhouse gas emission controls. To investigate the factors controlling the percentage of SOC (%SOC) of soils in England and Wales, we made a multiple regression analysis of data for the 2448 arable and ley-arable sites in the 1980 England and Wales National Soil Inventory (NSI). Clay content, average annual precipitation and depth of topsoil explained 25.5% of the variation in %SOC, when calcareous and peaty soils and those susceptible to flooding were excluded. Using 'robust' statistics, 'indicative SOC management ranges' were estimated for different physiotopes, that is, landscape units for which the environmental factors governing %SOC are similar, namely soil clay content and precipitation. These ranges describe the expected %SOC range for an arable soil in a given physiotope. They have potential to support approximate targets for the %SOC of arable soils and for estimating upper and lower limits for sequestered soil carbon in arable systems. 相似文献
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《Applied soil ecology》2009,41(3):432-446
Insight is needed into how management influences soil biota when sustainable grassland systems are developed. A crop rotation of grass and maize can be sustainable in terms of efficient nutrient use. However, there is lack of information on the effect of such a crop rotation on soil biological quality. Earthworms, nematodes, bacteria and fungi were sampled over three years in a 36 years old experiment. Permanent arable land was compared with permanent grassland and with a ley-arable crop rotation. In the rotation, a period of three years of grassland (temporary grassland) was followed by a period of three years of arable land (temporary arable land) and vice versa. In the first year of arable cropping in the rotation, the number of earthworms was already low and not different from continuous cropping. In the three-year grass ley, the abundance of earthworms returned to the level of permanent grassland in the second year. However, the restoration of earthworm biomass took a minimum of three years. Furthermore, the anecic species did not recover the dominance they had in the permanent grassland. The numbers of herbivorous and microbivorous nematodes in the ley-crop rotation reached similar levels to those in the permanent treatments within one to two years. Although the same holds for the nematode genera composition, the Maturity Index and the proportion of omnivorous nematodes in the temporary treatments remained significantly lower than in their permanent counterparts. Differences in recovery were also found among microbial parameters. In the temporary treatments, bacterial growth rate and the capacity to degrade a suite of substrates recovered in the second year. However, the Community-Level Physiological Profiles in the permanent grassland remained different from the other treatments. Our results suggest that many functions of soil biota that are well established in permanent grassland, are restored in a ley-arable crop rotation. However, due to a reduction in certain species, specific functions of these soil biota could be reduced or lost. The ley-arable crop rotations were intermediate to permanent grassland and continuous arable land in terms of functioning of soil biota (e.g., N-mineralization). In terms of the functional aspects of the soil biota, permanent grassland might be preferable wherever possible. For maize cultivation, a ley-arable crop rotation is preferable to continuous arable land. However, a ley-arable crop rotation is only preferable to continuous arable cropping if it is not practised at the expense of permanent grassland at farm level. 相似文献
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M. A. Oliver J. R. Archer S. J. Baxter A. D. Todd & R. J. Skinner 《Soil Use and Management》2006,22(4):372-382
The Representative Soil Sampling Scheme of England and Wales has recorded information on the soil of agricultural land in England and Wales since 1969. It is a valuable source of information about the soil in the context of monitoring for sustainable agricultural development. Changes in soil nutrient status and pH were examined over the period 1971–2001. Several methods of statistical analysis were applied to data from the surveys during this period. The main focus here is on the data for 1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001. The results of examining change over time in general show that levels of potassium in the soil have increased, those of magnesium have remained fairly constant, those of phosphorus have declined and pH has changed little. Future sampling needs have been assessed in the context of monitoring, to determine the mean at a given level of confidence and tolerable error and to detect change in the mean over time at these same levels over periods of 5 and 10 years. The results of a non‐hierarchical multivariate classification suggest that England and Wales could be stratified to optimize future sampling and analysis. To monitor soil quality and health more generally than for agriculture, more of the country should be sampled and a wider range of properties recorded. 相似文献
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Low soil organic carbon (SOC) levels in dry areas can affect soil functions and may thus indicate soil degradation. This study assesses the significance of SOC content in Mediterranean arable soils based on the analysis of a broad data set of 2613 soils sampled from Mediterranean grasslands and agricultural land. The distribution in values of SOC, pH, clay and carbonates was analysed according to different climatic areas (semi‐arid, Mediterranean temperate, Mediterranean continental and Atlantic) and with respect to six different land uses (grassland, cereal crops, olives and nuts, vineyards, fruit trees and vegetable gardens). The general trend was for low SOC in arable land and decreased with aridity. In wet areas (Atlantic and Mediterranean continental), acidic soils had a higher SOC content than did calcareous soils, whereas in the Mediterranean temperate area SOC had little relationship to soil pH. In low SOC arable soils, the SOC content was related to clay content. In calcareous arable soils of the Mediterranean temperate zone, SOC content was more closely related to carbonates than to clay. In contrast to the Atlantic area, Mediterranean grassland soils had much lower amounts of SOC than forest soils. Mediterranean calcareous and temperate acidic soils under grassland had SOC‐to‐clay ratios similar to or only slightly greater than that under a crop regime. In contrast, Mediterranean continental acidic soils under grassland had a much higher SOC‐to‐clay ratio than arable soils. This suggests a low resilience of the Mediterranean temperate and calcareous arable soils in terms of SOC recovery after the secession of ploughing, which may be a result of intensive use of these soils over many centuries. Consequently, we hypothesize that the Mediterranean calcareous soils have undergone significant changes that are not readily reversed after ploughing ceases. Such changes may be related to alterations in soil aggregation and porosity which, in turn, are associated with soil carbonate dynamics. Decarbonation processes (the depletion of active carbonates) may therefore be relevant to the reclamation of highly calcareous arable soils through fostering soil re‐aggregation. The article concludes by discussing the suitability of zero tillage, manuring or the introduction of woody species to increase SOC in calcareous arable soils that are highly depleted of organic matter. 相似文献
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F. C. ARCHER 《European Journal of Soil Science》1978,29(2):277-285
Superphosphate, granular and powdered basic slag, and normally and very finely ground Gafsa rock phosphate were compared as sources of phosphorus for established grassland under a wide range of conditions in England and Wales. Superphosphate and both forms of basic slag were about equally effective in all cases. Gafsa rock phosphate was a useful form of phosphate for grassland where the soil pH value was below about 6.0, but it was much less effective and slower acting on neutral soils or where lime had recently been applied. Very finely ground rock phosphate was only slightly more effective than the normally ground form, and their value as phosphatic fertilizers depended primarily on soil pH rather than on rainfall. 相似文献
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采用野外调查和室内分析相结合的方法,对贵州省长顺县冗雷河小流域坡耕地、人工草地和天然草地3种地类的全氮和碱解氮,全磷和有效磷,全钾和有效钾,酸碱度,有机质进行了研究,以层次分析法进行肥力综合评价,揭示冗雷河小流域草地治理模式下对土壤肥力的影响。结果表明:坡耕地实施人工种草措施后,土壤全氮含量相对增加42.64%,碱解氮增加50.86%,中层和下层（20—30 cm）土壤碱解氮改善最为明显;土壤全磷含量相对增加45.24%,有效磷降低23.58%,坡耕地相比草地在全磷含量上相对较为匮乏,但用于作物吸收的有效磷素却高于人工草地;土壤全钾和有效钾含量降低,pH值无变化,其中全钾含量相对降低43.28%,有效钾降低37.32%;土壤有机质含量相对增加77.24%,其中表层（0—10 cm）、中层和下层土壤有机质含量分别提升48.06%,85.58%和107.78%,中层和下层土壤有机质含量改善幅度大。天然草地综合肥力指数最大,坡耕地最小,天然草地综合肥力指数是人工草地的1.09倍,是坡耕地的1.14倍,人工草地是坡耕地的1.05倍。土壤肥力整体水平上得到提升。 相似文献
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Current trends of soil organic carbon in English arable soils 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Abstract. A model of the impact of land management changes upon soil organic carbon (SOC) was constructed, and the total amount of topsoil organic carbon was estimated for the arable area of England from 1940 to 2000. The largest influence on the overall mean SOC in arable topsoils proved to be a decline in the area of both permanent and temporary grassland. SOC declined over a prolonged period (60 years), but has now reached a plateau. Modelling changes in mean values enabled a statistical evaluation to be made between a measured decline in the number of sites with 'high' SOC levels between 1980 and 1995, and the decline predicted by the model. The SOC content of arable soils in England was measured at National Soil Inventory sites twice in recent decades: in 1980 and 1995. The proportion of fine textured soils in the lowest SOC class (<2.3%) rose from just over 40% to about 50% over the same period. There was a significant difference between the observed values of 1995 and those expected from modelling the decline from 1980 values, in the category of 'low SOC' fine textured soils. The variation in the fine textured soils represents a significant and widespread decline in topsoil organic carbon concentrations, which was greater than the underlying long-term trend. 相似文献
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The soil porespace was studied in two long-term tillage experiments on two clayey stagnogleys in Southern England. The soils differed in respect of mineral and organic composition and previous management history. In both soils the total volume of pores and the volume fraction of macropores in the topsoil horizon declined with direct drilling compared with annual ploughing. This difference between tillage treatments appeared to develop more slowly in the soil that was formerly under continuous arable cultivation than in the soil that was previously in long-term grassland. Fluid transport coefficients were greater in ploughed topsoil in both soils; however, at the boundaries between topsoil and subsoil, and in the upper subsoil, permeability and gaseous diffusivity were greater after direct drilling. At a long-term arable site, soil was more consolidated below the depth of ploughing or shallow tillage, whereas in a former grassland soil ploughing disrupted the continuity of channel-type macropores. 相似文献
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我国土壤氮、磷、钾的基本状况 总被引：90，自引：2，他引：90
本文根据我国建国以来主要的研究结果对我国土壤氮、磷、钾的基本状况进行了概略的阐述。我国土壤氮磷钾含量的变幅：N是0.04-0.38%；P是0.017-0.11%；K是0.05-2.50%。耕地土壤几乎全部都需补给氮素，大约有1/2-1/3缺磷；1/4-1/3缺钾。缺钾土壤主要分布在长江以南，但北方土壤的缺钾问题也需要及时注意。成土母质、风化程度和人为的耕作施肥措施是影响土壤氮、磷、钾状况的主要因素。 相似文献
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以重庆市中梁山石灰土地区为研究区,选择莴笋、红菜苔、白菜、瓢儿菜和桔子5种不同的作物,通过野外采样和室内实验分析的方法,分别测定了5种作物的根际与非根际土壤的全氮、全磷、全钾、水解氮、速效磷、速效钾、有机质的含量以及土壤pH值,并进行了对比分析。结果表明,根际与非根际土壤的全氮、全磷、全钾、水解氮、速效磷、速效钾、有机质和pH值之间均表现出显著的差异性（p<0.05）。这5种作物的养分含量除了桔子树的根际土壤速效磷出现亏缺外,其余4种作物根际土壤的全氮、全磷、全钾、水解氮、速效磷以及速效钾都高于非根际土壤,不同作物出现了不同程度的富集现象。另外,根际土壤的pH值均低于非根际土壤;根际土壤有机质含量均高于于非根际土壤。 相似文献
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The increasing cost of fertilizer has prompted farmers to ask whether soils could be maintained at lower levels of plant‐available phosphorus (Olsen P) than currently recommended, without limiting yield. To help answer this question, critical levels of Olsen P have been determined for spring barley, winter wheat, potatoes and sugar beet grown on a sandy clay loam and a poorly structured heavy textured silty clay loam. On each soil, there were plots with a range of well‐established levels of Olsen P and, in one experiment, two levels of soil organic matter (SOM). For each crop and each year, the response curve relating yield to Olsen P was fitted statistically to determine the asymptotic yield and the Olsen P associated with 98% of that yield, that is, the critical Olsen P. Maximum yield of all four crops varied greatly from year to year, in part due to applied nitrogen (N) where it was tested, and in part to seasonal variation in weather, mainly rainfall. The wide range in critical Olsen P, from 8 to 36 mg/kg, between years was most probably as a result of differences in soil conditions that affected root growth and thus acquisition of available soil phosphorus (P). Generally, a larger asymptotic yield was not necessarily associated with a larger critical Olsen P. Spring barley and winter wheat given little N required more Olsen P, 20–34 mg/kg, to achieve the asymptotic yield, compared to 10–17 mg/kg where ample N was given; presumably, more roots were needed to search the soil for the smaller amounts of available N and root growth is affected by the amount of plant‐available soil P. In a field experiment on one soil type, soil with little SOM required 2–3.5 times more Olsen P to produce the same yield as that on soil with more organic matter. Soil organic matter most probably improved soil structure and hence the ability of roots to grow and search for nutrients in field conditions because when these soils were cropped with ryegrass in controlled conditions in the glasshouse, the yields of grass were independent of SOM and there was the same critical Olsen P for both soils. Overall, the data confirm that, for these soil types, the current recommendations for Olsen P for arable crops in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are appropriate. 相似文献
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Anne C. Preger Matthias C. Rillig Chris C. Du Preez Wulf Amelung 《Soil biology & biochemistry》2007,39(2):445-453
Residues of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) may be important for agroecosystem functioning due to their ability to promote soil aggregation, especially in coarse textured soils with little biomass input and low capacity to conserve soil organic matter (SOM). Our aim was to assess the fate of AMF residues with prolonged arable cropping in coarse textured soils in a subtropical savannah assuming that glomalin-related soil protein (GRSP), especially the MAb32B11-immunoreactive fraction, mainly constitutes material of AMF origin. In three agroecosystems on the South African Highveld, surface soils were sampled. The former grassland soils had a history of up to 98 yr of cropping. We measured four GRSP fractions: Bradford-reactive soil protein (BRSP) and immunoreactive soil protein (IRSP), and easily extractable fractions of both. The primary grassland sites exhibited generally low contents of SOM and low GRSP contents. Prolonged arable land use of former grassland soils reduced the content of GRSP further. The decline could be described with a mono-exponential function with rate constants ranging from 0.04 to 0.41 yr−1. Depending on the GRSP fraction, steady-state conditions were reached after 11-92 yr on a level of 39-69% of the initial contents. We conclude that even though GRSP fractions had the same hypothesized origin, they comprised pools with different stability or replacement rate. Easily extractable IRSP was lost most rapidly. In contrast to carbon, nitrogen and microbial residue dynamics, GRSP contents were not reduced below a certain steady-state level, despite potentially negative management effects on AMF, such as tillage, inclusion of fallows into crop rotation and fertilization with inorganic phosphorus. The steady-state GRSP contents coincided with low, but steady agroecosystem yields under the given cropping management. 相似文献
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《Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis》2012,43(1):61-72
Pot-culture studies of intensive cropping without potassium (K) application, taking three successive crops of rice on Sonakhali (Inceptisol) and Ranibundh (Alfisol) soils, revealed that all the forms of soil K declined after the third crop compared to the corresponding initial soil status. A similar trend was also found for nonexchangeable K extracted sequentially and termed as Step K and CR-K (constant rate K). The CR-K contents showed little variations with cropping. Except for the potential buffering capacity of the soil for K at equilibrium (PBCK 0) values, all the quantity/intensity (Q/I) parameters, namely activity ratio of potassium (ARK e), labile K (–ΔK0), specifically held K (KX), and total labile pool of K (KL) values, decreased in both the soils as they were subjected to repeated cropping. The PBCK 0 values changed to a smaller extent in both the soils. In both soils, the threshold levels for release of intermediate K in terms of activity ratio, exchangeable K, and K concentration in soil solution decreased after the third cropping as compared to the initial status. The dry-matter weight of rice, K concentration, and K uptake decreased with the cropping sequence. The difference in values of each parameter between initial status and the third crop was much wider in Inceptisol than in Alfisol. 相似文献
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A. J. LOW 《European Journal of Soil Science》1972,23(4):363-380
Cultivating grassland changes the physical state of the soil. The paper describes observations and measurements made in the field and the laboratory on a wide range of soils (with series names) in England over a period of 25 years. Dry sieving showed that natural weathering of grassland aggregates after three months'exposure was very considerable. The drawbar-pull on ploughing soil recently out of grass, as compared with old arable, increased with the number of years out of grass. The number of earthworms per hectare on old grassland was 6 to 9 times that on old arable of the same soil series: after three years'cultivation it was reduced by about a half. The possibility of erosion by wind increased with the number of years out of grass. Old arable land on gentle slopes had its resistance to flowing water (sheet erosion) much increased by as little as 2 years under grass. The apparent densities of soils were at a minimum under old grass and increased under cultivation. On some soils arable for many decades, the apparent densities were near those considered limiting for root penetration. The volurne of water per cent in the soil at the sticky point decreased as the years out of grass increased, suggesting a decrease in the number of days the soil could be cultivated without smearing. The water-stability of soil aggregates decreased as the number of years after ploughing old grassland increased. Whatever the texture, on ploughing old grassland, the water stability of air-dry aggregates feil sharply in the first – years and then approached the value corresponding to that of old arable soils more slowly, apart from soils of low clay content in which it differed little from old arable land after 2 years. Measurement of changes in water stability and field observations in a 6-course rotation (3 years ley, 3 years cereal) on a loam which had been in a similar rotation for about a decade after old grassland, suggested that this balance was probably right for maintaining such a soil at a good cropping level. Puddling (poaching) by animals of wet arable loam soils overlying clay resulted in gleying to the surface: ferrous iron was detected chemically. On putting down to grass there was little increase in water stability of the aggregates after 4 years. The reduction in the total pore space caused by harvesting machinery and also as a result of some years'cultivation of grassland was considerable. The ease of penetration of soils when taking cores was compared by counting the number of blows to drive in a corer: the number was much less in a soil recently out of old grass compared with old arable. The root development of cereals was poor in old arable silt soils very unstable to wetting and drying and with few visible biopores (> 10–00 μm). On soils with many visible pores, root development was much greater and yields with similar rates of nitrogen were double. The total N in the soils feil when old grassland was ploughed, sometimes by as much as 75 per cent in about 20 years. There was sometimes a significant corre-lation between total N and the reduction in water-stable aggregation during the years following ploughing grassland: the correlation coefficient was much higher on ploughing old grassland rather than leys. The N level dropped much more quickly in the first few years after ploughing old grassland than later. All single-property measurements give only a limited assessment of the physical state of a soil. Soils can be assessed satisfactorily only by making a range of measurements appropriate to the farming System. 相似文献
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寿光大棚菜地土壤呼吸强度、酶活性、pH与EC的变化研究 总被引：4，自引：1，他引：3
为防治土壤退化、促进农业可持续发展提供科学依据,以寿光地区露地土壤作对照,研究了连作1、5、8和12年大棚蔬菜(番茄)土壤有关生物学指标的变化。结果表明,土壤呼吸强度和脱氢酶活性棚内高于棚外,并随连作年限延长开始增强而后减弱,由于管理差异,12年棚龄土壤又回升。随着连作年限延长,土壤脲酶活性逐渐减弱,而过氧化氢酶活性逐渐增强;土壤呼吸强度和酶活性都由表层向底层逐渐减弱。土壤pH随连作年限增加逐渐下降,而EC逐渐增加,至12年棚龄时,与对照比0—20 cm土层pH下降了1.06单位,其他层次变化不显著。试验还表明,该地区表层土壤pH变化于6.45~7.51,EC 0.5 mS/cm,能较好地满足作物生长需要,同时,EC是影响土壤pH及酶活性变化的重要因素。土壤EC及过氧化氢酶活性可作为反映大棚菜地土壤质量变化的参考指标。 相似文献
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Increasing fertilizer costs have prompted farmers to ask whether soils could be maintained at lower levels of plant‐available phosphorus (Olsen P) than currently recommended without losing yield. To help answer this question, we assessed the response to Olsen P by spring barley grown from 1986 to 1991, followed by winter wheat from 1992 to 2008, on a silty clay loam soil. Each year the curve relating grain yield to Olsen P was fitted statistically to determine the asymptotic yield and the Olsen P associated with 98% of that yield, that is, the critical level of Olsen P. The variance accounted for by the relationship ranged between 83 and 97% in all but two years, suggesting that the availability of soil P was the major soil factor affecting yield and that Olsen P was a reliable measure of plant‐available P in soil. Asymptotic annual yield of spring barley ranged from 2.34 to 7.12 t/ha and of winter wheat from 3.87 to 10.36 t/ha. In part, this range in yields was because of changes in the cultivar grown while the range of yields for any one cultivar was probably due to differences in weather, principally rainfall, between years. Critical Olsen P ranged from 7 to 18 mg/kg for both cereal crops (with one outlier at 26 mg/kg for winter wheat) most probably due to seedbed and soil structure conditions affecting root growth, and thus acquisition of available soil P, and the way these soil factors were affected by weather. Thus, a general recommendation for cereals grown on this silty clay loam, which is comparatively easy to cultivate, would be to maintain Olsen P at about 20 mg/kg in the plough layer to minimize the risk of losing yield in some years. This value, 20 mg/kg, equivalent to 20 mg/L, is the midpoint of P Index 2, the recommended P Index given in the Fertiliser Manual (RB209) (Defra 2010) for soils growing arable crops and grass in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. 相似文献
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J. Dieckow J. Mielniczuk H. Knicker C. Bayer D. P. Dick & I. Kögel-Knabner 《European Journal of Soil Science》2005,56(6):705-715
We know much about the influence of management on stocks of organic matter in subtropical soils, yet little about the influence on the chemical composition. We therefore studied by CPMAS 13C NMR spectroscopy the composition of the above-ground plant tissue, of the organic matter of the whole soil and of silt- and clay-size fractions of the topsoil and subsoil of a subtropical Acrisol under grass and arable crops. Soil samples were collected from three no-till cropping systems (bare soil; oats−maize; pigeon pea + maize), each receiving 0 and 180 kg N ha−1 year−1, in a long-term field experiment. Soil under the original native grass was also sampled. The kind of arable crops and grass affected the composition of the particulate organic matter. There were no differences in the composition of the organic matter in silt- and clay-size fractions, or of the whole soil, among the arable systems. Changes were observed between land use: the soil of the grassland had larger alkyl and smaller aromatic C contents than did the arable soil. The small size fractions contain microbial products, and we think that the compositional difference in silt- and clay-size fractions between grassland and the arable land was induced by changes in the soil's microbial community and therefore in the quality of its biochemical products. The application of N did not affect the composition of the above-ground plant tissue nor of the particulate organic matter and silt-size fractions, but it did increase the alkyl C content in the clay-size fraction. In the subsoil, the silt-size fraction of all treatments contained large contents of aromatic C. Microscopic investigation confirmed that this derived from particles of charred material. The composition of organic matter in this soil is affected by land use, but not by variations in the arable crops grown. 相似文献
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Soil pH influences the chemistry, dynamics and biological availability of phosphorus (P), but few studies have isolated the effect of pH from other soil properties. We studied phosphorus chemistry in soils along the Hoosfield acid strip (Rothamsted, UK), where a pH gradient from 3.7 to 7.8 occurs in a single soil with little variation in total phosphorus (mean ± standard deviation 399 ± 27 mg P kg?1). Soil organic phosphorus represented a consistent proportion of the total soil phosphorus (36 ± 2%) irrespective of soil pH. However, organic phosphorus concentrations increased by about 20% in the most acidic soils (pH < 4.0), through an accumulation of inositol hexakisphosphate, DNA and phosphonates. The increase in organic phosphorus in the most acidic soils was not related to organic carbon, because organic carbon concentrations declined at pH < 4.0. Thus, the organic carbon to organic phosphorus ratio declined from about 70 in neutral soils to about 50 in strongly acidic soils. In contrast to organic phosphorus, inorganic phosphorus was affected strongly by soil pH, because readily‐exchangeable phosphate extracted with anion‐exchange membranes and a more stable inorganic phosphorus pool extracted in NaOH–EDTA both increased markedly as soil pH declined. Inorganic orthophosphate concentrations were correlated negatively with amorphous manganese and positively with amorphous aluminium oxides, suggesting that soil pH influences orthophosphate stabilization via metal oxides. We conclude that pH has a relatively minor influence on the amount of organic phosphorus in soil, although some forms of organic phosphorus accumulate preferentially under strongly acidic conditions. 相似文献