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Background, aim, and scope  Hoop pine (Araucaria cunninghamii) is a nitrogen (N) demanding indigenous Australia softwood species with plantations in Southeast Queensland, Australia. Soil fertility has declined with increasing rotations and comparison study of N cycling between hoop pine plantations, and adjacent native forest (NF) is required to develop effective forest management for enhancing sustainable forest production and promoting environmental benefits. Field in situ mineral 15N transformations in these two forest ecosystems have not been studied. Hence, the present study was to compare the differences in soil nutrients, N transformations, 15N fluxes, and fate between the hoop pine plantation and the adjacent native forest. Materials and methods  The study sites were in Yarraman State Forest (26°52′ S, 151°51′ E), Southeastern Queensland, Australia. The in situ core incubation method was used in the field experiments. Mineral N was determined using a LACHAT Quickchem Automated Ion Analyzer. 15N were performed using an isotope ratio mass spectrometer with a Eurovector elemental analyzer. All statistical tests were carried out by the SPSS 11.0 for Windows statistical software package. Results  Soil total C and N were significantly higher in the NF than in the 53-year-old hoop pine plantation. Concentrations of NO3 were significantly higher in the NF soil than in the plantation soil. The plantation soil had significantly higher 15N and 13C natural abundances than the NF soil. The NF soil had significantly lower C/N ratios than the plantation soil. NO3 –N was dominated in mineral N pools in both NF and plantation soils, accounting for 91.6% and 70.3% of the total mineral N pools, respectively. Rates of net nitrification and net N mineralization were, respectively, four and three times higher in the NF soil than in the plantation soil. The 15NO3 –N and mineral 15N were significantly higher in the NF soil than in the plantation soil. Significant difference in 15NH4 +–N was found in the NF soil before and after the incubation. Discussion  The NF soil had significantly higher NO3 –N, mineral N, total N and C but lower δ15N, δ13C, and C/N ratios than the plantation soil. Moreover, the rates of soil net N mineralization and nitrification were significantly higher, but ammonification rate was lower in the NF than in the plantation. The NF soil had many more dynamic N transformations than the plantation soil due to the combination of multiple species and layers and, thus, stimulation of microbial activity and alteration of C and N pool sizes in favor of the N transformations by soil microbes. The net rate of N and 15N transformation demonstrated differences in N dynamic related to the variation in tree species between the two ecosystems. Conclusions  The change of land use and trees species had significant impacts on soil nutrients and N cycling processes. The plantation had larger losses of N than the NF. The NO3 –N and 15NO3 –N dominated in the mineral N and 15N pools in both forest ecosystems. Recommendations and perspectives  Native forest soil had strong N dynamic compared with the plantation soil. Composition of multiple tree species with different ecological niches in the plantation could promote the soil ecosystem sustainability. The 15N isotope dilution technique in the field can be quite useful for studying in situ mineral 15N transformations and fate to further understand actual N dynamics in natural forest soils.  相似文献   

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A laboratory incubation experiment was conducted to demonstrate that reduced availability of CO2 may be an important factor limiting nitrification. Soil samples amended with wheat straw (0%, 0.1% and 0.2%) and (15NH4)2SO4 (200 mg N kg–1 soil, 2.213 atom% 15N excess) were incubated at 30±2°C for 20 days with or without the arrangement for trapping CO2 resulting from the decomposition of organic matter. Nitrification (as determined by the disappearance of NH4+ and accumulation of NO3) was found to be highly sensitive to available CO2 decreasing significantly when CO2 was trapped in alkali solution and increasing substantially when the amount of CO2 in the soil atmosphere increased due to the decomposition of added wheat straw. The co-efficient of correlation between NH4+-N and NO3-N content of soil was highly significant (r =0.99). During incubation, 0.1–78% of the applied NH4+ was recovered as NO3 at different incubation intervals. Amendment of soil with wheat straw significantly increased NH4+ immobilization. From 1.6% to 4.5% of the applied N was unaccounted for and was due to N losses. The results of the study suggest that decreased availability of CO2 will limit the process of nitrification during soil incubations involving trapping of CO2 (in closed vessels) or its removal from the stream of air passing over the incubated soil (in open-ended systems).  相似文献   

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Large amounts of C and N are returned to pasture soils by grazing animals in the form of urine and dung. Therefore, a field trial was carried out to investigate the mid-term effects of 15N-labeled excrements, produced by feeding a cow with 15N-labeled grass silage, on the soil microbial biomass. Simulating the deposition of excrements, 15N-labeled urine and dung were applied to a 0.09-m2 area of a sandy pasture soil in October 2000 and 2001. Applied amounts of N were 1,030 and 1,052 kg ha−1, respectively. Soil was sampled at 0–15 cm depth, three times over 7 months and analyzed for total C and N, and microbial biomass C and N. Recovery of urine and dung N in microbial biomass was determined by 15N analysis of K2SO4 extracts of pre-extracted fumigated and unfumigated soils. Under dung patches, microbial biomass C was 16% and 45% higher, and microbial biomass N was 24% and 57% higher than under the untreated soil in 2001 and 2002, respectively. Under urine patches, microbial biomass C was increased after 12 weeks and decreased after 27 weeks. Microbial biomass assimilated 7% to 17% and 10% to 21% of the 15N applied initially as urine and dung, respectively. These percentages were considerably higher than those for artificially with spiked 15N urea-created and labeled manures reported in previous experiments. An important reason may be that the naturally 15N-labeled N components behave differently in soil than urea spikes.  相似文献   

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The input of labeled C into the pool of soil organic matter, the CO2 fluxes from the soil, and the contribution of root and microbial respiration to the CO2 emission were studied in a greenhouse experiment with continuous labeling of oat plants with 13CO2 using the method of the natural 13C abundance in the air. The carbon of the microbial biomass composed 56 and 39% of the total amounts of 13C photoassimilates in the rhizosphere and in the bulk soil, respectively. The contribution of root respiration to the CO2 emission from the soil reached 61–92%, including 4–23% of the rhizomicrobial respiration. The contribution of the microbial respiration to the total CO2 emission from the soil varied from 8 to 39%. The soil organic matter served as the major carbon-containing substrate for microorganisms in the bulk soil and in the rhizosphere: 81–91% of the total amount of carbon involved in the microbial metabolism was derived from the soil organic matter.  相似文献   

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Alternative silvicultural systems were introduced in Coastal Western Hemlock forests of British Columbia, Canada, to reduce disturbance incurred by conventional clear-cutting and to maintain the forest influence on soil nutrient cycling. As we hypothesized, in situ pools and net mineralization of NH4 + were lower under no and low disturbance (old-growth forest and shelterwood) compared to clear-cuts (high disturbance); in situ pools and net production of NO3 were very low across all treatments. Gross transformation rates of NH4 + increased while those of NO3 decreased with increasing disturbance, suggesting that these processes were uncoupled. We conclude that shelterwood harvesting reduces the impact on forest floor NH4 + cycling compared to clear-cutting, and that neither low nor high disturbance intensity results in substantial NO3 accumulation, as what occasionally occurs in other ecosystems. We hypothesize that the uncoupling of NH4 + and NO3 dynamics may be due to the predominance of heterotrophic nitrification by lignin-degrading fungi that oxidize organic N rather than NH4 +–N, and whose activities are suppressed at high NH4 + concentrations.  相似文献   

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We assessed the effect of liming on (1) N2O production by denitrification under aerobic conditions using the 15N tracer method (experiment 1); and (2) the reduction of N2O to N2 under anaerobic conditions using the acetylene inhibition method (experiment 2). A Mollic Andosol with three lime treatments (unlimed soil, 4 and 20 mg CaCO3 kg?1) was incubated at 15 and 25 °C for 22 days at 50% and then 80% WFPS with or without 200 mg N kg?1 added as 15N enriched KNO3 in experiment 1. In experiment 2, the limed and unlimed soils were incubated under completely anaerobic conditions for 44 h (with or without 100 mg N kg?1 as KNO3). In experiment 1, limed treatments increased N2O fluxes at 50% WFPS but decreased these fluxes at 80% WFPS. At 25 °C, cumulative N2O and 15N2O emissions in the high lime treatment were the lowest (with at least 30% less 15N2O and total N2O than the unlimed soil). Under anaerobic conditions, the high lime treatment showed at least 50% less N2O than the unlimed treatment at both temperatures with or without KNO3 addition but showed enhanced N2 production. Our results suggest that the positive effect of liming on the mitigation of N2O evolution from soil was influenced by soil temperature and moisture conditions.  相似文献   

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Microbial biomass C and N, and activities related to C and N cycles, were compared in needle and leaf litter, and in the uppermost 10 cm of soil under the litter layer in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.), Norway spruce (Picea abies L.) and silver birch (Betula pendula L.) stands, planted on originally similar field afforestation sites 23–24 years ago. The ground vegetation was differentiated under different tree species, consisting of grasses and herbs under birch and pine, and mosses or no vegetation with a thick layer of needles under spruce. The C:N ratio of the soils was 13–21 and the soil pHCaCl 2 3.8–5.2. Both showed little variation under different tree species. Microbial biomass C and N, C mineralization, net ammonification, reduction) did not differ significantly in soil under different tree species either. Birch leaf litter had a higher pHCaCl 2 (5.9) than spruce and pine needle litter (pH 5.0 and 4.8, respectively). The C:N ratio of spruce needles was 30, and was considerably higher in pine needles (69) and birch leaves (54). Birch leaves tended to have the highest microbial biomass C and C mineralization. Spruce needles appeared to have the highest microbial biomass N and net formation of mineral N, whereas formation of mineral N in pine needles and birch leaves was negligible. Microbial biomass C and N were of the same order of magnitude in the soil and litter samples but C mineralization was tenfold higher in the litter samples.  相似文献   

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Purpose

Various soil conditioners, such as biochar (BC) and anionic polyacrylamide (PAM), improve soil fertility and susceptibility to erosion, and may alter microbial accessibility and decomposition of soil organic matter (SOM) and plant residues. To date, no attempts have been made to study the effects of BC in combination with PAM on the decomposition of soil SOM and plant residues. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of BC, PAM, and their combination on the decomposition of SOM and alfalfa residues.

Materials and methods

An 80-day incubation experiment was carried out to investigate the effects of oak wood biochar (BC; 10 Mg ha?1), PAM (80 kg ha?1), and their combination (BC?+?PAM) on decomposition of SOM and 14C-labeled alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) residues by measuring CO2 efflux, microbial biomass, and specific respiration activity.

Results and discussion

No conditioner exerted a significant effect on SOM decomposition over the 80 days of incubation. PAM increased cumulative CO2 efflux at 55–80 days of incubation on average of 6.7 % compared to the soil with plant residue. This was confirmed by the increased MBN and MB14C at 80 days of incubation in PAM-treated soil with plant residue compared to the control. In contrast, BC and BC?+?PAM decreased plant residue decomposition compared to that in PAM-treated soil and the respective control soil during the 80 days. BC and BC?+?PAM decreased MBC in soil at 2 days of incubation indicated that BC suppressed soil microorganisms and, therefore, decreased the decomposition of plant residue.

Conclusions

The addition of oak wood BC alone or in combination with PAM to soil decreased the decomposition of plant residue.
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The aim of this study was to compare microbial activities in the litter (L), fermentation (F) and humified (H) layers of the forest floor under silver birch (Betula pendula Roth), Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst) and Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.). Soil pH, C-to-N ratio, respiration rates, concentration of NH4-N, net N mineralization and nitrification rates, gross NH4+ production and consumption rates and amounts of C (Cmic) and N (Nmic) in the microbial biomass were determined from samples taken from the L, F and H layers under silver birch, Norway spruce and Scots pine. The forest floors under birch and spruce were more active than that under pine, having higher respiration and net N mineralization rates, and higher Cmic and Nmic values than pine forest floor. Differences between tree species were smaller in the H layer than in the L and F layers. The L layer had the highest rates of respiration for all tree species, while rates of net N mineralization were highest in the F layer for birch and spruce. Pine showed negligible net N mineralization in all layers. Concentration of NH4-N was the best predictor of rate of net N mineralization (r=0.748). In general, Cmic and Nmic were higher in the L and F layers than in the H layer, as were their relative proportions of total C (Ctot) and N (Ntot), respectively. Cmic correlated positively with soil respiration (r=0.980) and Nmic with concentration of NH4-N (r=0.915).  相似文献   

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Purpose

Ecosystem restorations can impact carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions which are important greenhouse gasses. Alpine meadows are degraded worldwide, but restorations are increasing. Because their soils represent large carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) pools, they may produce significant amounts of CO2 and N2O depending on the plant species used in restorations. In addition, warming and N deposition may impact soil CO2 and N2O emissions from restored meadows.

Materials and methods

We collected soils from degraded meadows and plots restored using three different plant species at Wugong Mountain (Jiangxi, China). We measured CO2 and N2O emissions when soils were incubated at different temperatures (15, 25 or 35 °C) and levels of N addition (control vs. 4 g m?2) to understand their responses to warming and N deposition.

Results and discussion

Dissolved organic C was higher in restored plots (especially with Fimbristylis dichotoma) compared to non-restored bare soils, and their soil inorganic N was lower. CO2 emission rates were increased by vegetation restorations, decreased by N deposition, and increased by warming. CO2 emission rates were similar for the three grass species at 15 and 25 °C, but they were lower with Miscanthus floridulus at 35 °C. Soils from F. dichotoma and Carex chinensis plots had higher N2O emissions than degraded or M. floridulus plots, especially at 25 °C.

Conclusions

These results show that the effects of restorations on soil greenhouse gas emissions depended on plant species. In addition, these differences varied with temperature suggesting that future climate should be considered when choosing plant species in restorations to predict soil CO2 and N2O emissions and global warming potential.
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The tight coupling between nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) suggests that P availability may affect soil microbial N dynamics in terrestrial ecosystems. However, how P addition affects the internal N transformations in P-deficient agricultural soil remains poorly understood. We hypothesized that an increase in gross microbial N rates in P-deficient soil should occur after long-term P inputs in agricultural soils. We thus conducted a 15N pool dilution experiment to quantify the gross microbial N transformation rates after long-term mineral fertilizer applications in an upland fluvo-aquic soil (from Fengqiu with pH 8.55) and upland red soil (from Qiyang with pH 5.49) in China. We found that P addition significantly enhanced the gross N mineralization and immobilization rates when N and K were also applied, probably due to the increased soil total C and N concentrations at both soils. Also, gross nitrification rate was stimulated by P addition, perhaps because of enhanced gross N mineralization rates and associated NH4+ substrate availability. Our results showed that long-term P addition may stimulate soil gross N dynamics and hence increase overall N availability for crops in P-deficient agricultural soils.  相似文献   

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Microbial biomass C and N, and activities related to C and N cycles, were compared in needle and leaf litter, and in the uppermost 10 cm of soil under the litter layer in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.), Norway spruce (Picea abies L.) and silver birch (Betula pendula L.) stands, planted on originally similar field afforestation sites 23–24 years ago. The ground vegetation was differentiated under different tree species, consisting of grasses and herbs under birch and pine, and mosses or no vegetation with a thick layer of needles under spruce. The C:N ratio of the soils was 13–21 and the soil pHCaCl 2 3.8–5.2. Both showed little variation under different tree species. Microbial biomass C and N, C mineralization, net ammonification, reduction) did not differ significantly in soil under different tree species either. Birch leaf litter had a higher pHCaCl 2 (5.9) than spruce and pine needle litter (pH 5.0 and 4.8, respectively). The C:N ratio of spruce needles was 30, and was considerably higher in pine needles (69) and birch leaves (54). Birch leaves tended to have the highest microbial biomass C and C mineralization. Spruce needles appeared to have the highest microbial biomass N and net formation of mineral N, whereas formation of mineral N in pine needles and birch leaves was negligible. Microbial biomass C and N were of the same order of magnitude in the soil and litter samples but C mineralization was tenfold higher in the litter samples.  相似文献   

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In order to investigate the effect of soil water and texture on C and N mineralisation of applied organic matter, sheep manure was sandwiched between two halves of intact soil cores and incubated at 20°C. The soils contained 10.8% (L1), 22.4% (L3) and 33.7% (L5) clay, respectively, and were drained to seven different matric potentials in the range -15 to -1,500 hPa. Evolution of CO2-C was determined during 4 weeks of incubation. Contents of NO3--N, 15N and microbial biomass N were determined at the end of the incubation. The net release of CO2-C from the manure (estimated as the difference between soils with and without manure) and the total CO2-C evolution from soils with manure was not related to soil water content. Most CO2-C evolved from manure-amended soils in the least clayey L1 soil. The manure caused immobilisation of soil NO3--N but the soil matric potential had no major effects on the net NO3--N production. Less than 1% of the manure 15N was found as NO3--N at the end of the incubation. When unamended, the sandy L1 soil held the least N in microbial biomass but the largest increases in biomass N caused by manure application were found in this soil. Despite the higher increases in microbial biomass N in the L1 soil, the total content of microbial biomass N in soils with manure application peaked in the most clayey soil (L5). The recovery of manure 15N at the end of the incubation ranged from 89% to 102%. The variation in 15N recovery was not related to soil clay content nor to soil matric potential. The experimental set-up was designed to mimic field conditions where manure is left as a discrete layer surrounded by structurally intact soil. In this situation the soil clay content and the soil water level appeared to have little influence on the C and N turnover in the manure layer.  相似文献   

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Purpose

Better understanding of N transformations and the regulation of N2O-related N transformation processes in pasture soil contributes significantly to N fertilizer management and development of targeted mitigation strategies.

Materials and methods

15N tracer technique combined with acetylene (C2H2) method was used to measure gross N transformation rates and to distinguish pathways of N2O production in two Australian pasture soils. The soils were collected from Glenormiston (GN) and Terang (TR), Victoria, Australia, and incubated at a soil moisture content of 60% water-filled pore space (WFPS) and at temperature of 20 °C.

Results and discussion

Two tested pasture soils were characterized by high mineralization and immobilization turnover. The average gross N nitrification rate (ntot) was 7.28 mg N kg?1 day?1 in TR soil () and 5.79 mg N kg?1 day?1 in GN soil. Heterotrophic nitrification rates (nh), which accounting for 50.8 and 41.9% of ntot, and 23.4 and 30.1% of N2O emissions in GN and TR soils, respectively, played a role similar with autotrophic nitrification in total nitrification and N2O emission. Denitrification rates in two pasture soils were as low as 0.003–0.004 mg N kg?1 day?1 under selected conditions but contributed more than 30% of N2O emissions.

Conclusions

Results demonstrated that two tested pasture soils were characterized by fast N transformation rates of mineralization, immobilization, and nitrification. Heterotrophic nitrification could be an important NO3?–N production transformation process in studied pasture soils. Except for autotrophic nitrification, roles of heterotrophic nitrification and denitrification in N2O emission in two pasture soils should be considered when developing mitigation strategies.
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In recent years, identification of the microbial sources responsible for soil N2O production has substantially advanced with the development of isotope enrichment techniques, selective inhibitors, mathematical models and the discoveries of specific N-cycling functional genes. However, little information is available to effectively quantify the N2O produced from different microbial pathways (e.g. nitrification and denitrification). Here, a 15N-tracing incubation experiment was conducted under controlled laboratory conditions (50, 70 and 85% water-filled pore space (WFPS) at 25 and 35 °C). Nitrification was the main contributor to N2O production. At 50, 70 and 85% WFPS, nitrification contributed 87, 80 and 53% of total N2O production, respectively, at 25 °C, and 86, 74 and 33% at 35 °C. The proportion of nitrified N as N2O (P N2O) increased with temperature and moisture, except for 85% WFPS, when P N2O was lower at 35 °C than at 25 °C. Ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) were the dominant ammonia oxidizers, but both AOA and ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) were related to N2O emitted from nitrification. AOA and AOB abundance was significantly influenced by soil moisture, more so than temperature, and decreased with increasing moisture content. These findings can be used to develop better models for simulating N2O from nitrification to inform soil management practises for improving N use efficiency.  相似文献   

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Soil microbes are frequently limited by carbon (C), but also have a high phosphorus (P) requirement. Little is known about the effect of P availability relative to the availability of C on soil microbial activity. In two separate experiments, we assessed the effect of P addition (20 mg P kg?1 soil) with and without glucose addition (500 mg C kg?1 soil) on gross nitrogen (N) mineralization (15N pool dilution method), microbial respiration, and nitrous oxide (N2O) emission in a grassland soil. In the first experiment, soils were incubated for 13 days at 90% water holding capacity (WHC) with addition of NO3? (99 mg N kg?1 soil) to support denitrification. Addition of C and P had no effect on gross N mineralization. Initially, N2O emission significantly increased with glucose, but it decreased at later stages of the incubation, suggesting a shift from C to NO3? limitation of denitrifiers. P addition increased the N2O/CO2 ratio without glucose but decreased it with glucose addition. Furthermore, the 15N recovery was lowest with glucose and without P addition, suggesting a glucose by P interaction on the denitrifying community. In the second experiment, soils were incubated for 2 days at 75% WHC without N addition. Glucose addition increased soil 15N recovery, but had no effect on gross N mineralization. Possibly, glucose addition increased short-term microbial N immobilization, thereby reducing N-substrates for nitrification and denitrification under more aerobic conditions. Our results indicate that both C and P affect N transformations in this grassland soil.  相似文献   

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The aim of this study was to determine whether tree species consistently affects soil microbial activities related to C and N cycling and to compare these activities with the characteristics of soil dissolved organic matter (DOM). Samples were taken from the mor-type organic layer (Of+Oh) underlain by podzols of six 20–72-year-old tree-species experiments on different site types in different parts of Finland. Sampling plots were dominated by silver birch (Betula pendula Roth), Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst) or Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L., only on four sites). Amounts of C and N in the microbial biomass and rates of C mineralization (CO2 production) and net N mineralization were determined, and water extracts were analysed for concentrations of DOC and DON and characterized according to molecular size by ultrafiltration and according to chemical composition using a resin fractionation technique. In all older stands, birch, compared to spruce or pine, increased soil pH, NH4-concentration and amounts of C and N in microbial biomass and decreased the C-to-N ratio and ratio of dissolved organic N (DON)-to-mineral N. Birch had similar effects also in part of the younger stands. Birch also increased the rates of both C and net N mineralization compared to spruce or pine but only on two sites. In all soils, net nitrification was low. The distribution of DOC into different fractions based on chemical composition and molecular size was rather similar in all soils. The most abundant chemical fraction was hydrophobic acids, and the most abundant molecular size fraction was 10–100 kDa. The C-to-N ratio varied but was lowest in hydrophilic bases and in the smallest molecular size class. Mineralization of C was highly and positively correlated with concentration of DOC (Pearson's correlation coefficient r = 0.9, P < 0.01). The results indicated close interactions between microbial processes and dissolved organic matter.  相似文献   

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We evaluated the impact of exponential fertilization in nursery and weed removal in the field on growth and nitrogen (N) retranslocation and uptake from the soil of jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) seedlings planted on an oil sands reclaimed soil. Exponential fertilization is a method of supplying nutrients at an exponential rate to achieve constant internal nutrient concentrations in seedlings without changing their size during their growth in the nursery. The N retranslocation in seedlings was traced using 15N isotope labeling. Exponential fertilization increased nutrient reserve in the seedling in nursery production, and increased height (P = 0.003), root collar diameter (P < 0.001), total biomass (P < 0.001), and N content (P < 0.001) of seedlings at the end of first growing season in the field growth. Conventionally fertilized seedlings allocated a greater percent of biomass to roots than to current-year needles. The 15N isotope analysis showed that 59 to 82% of total N demand of new growth was met by retranslocation from old tissues. Exponential fertilization increased N retranslocation by 147% (P < 0.001) and N uptake from the soil by 175% (P = 0.012). Weed removal marginally increased (P = 0.077) N uptake from the soil but decreased (P = 0.046) N retranslocation with no net effect on total N content in new tissues. We conclude that exponential fertilization improves the early growth of jack pine and can help improve revegetation in reclaiming disturbed oil sands sites.  相似文献   

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Abstract

The effects of steam sterilization (SS), methyl bromide (MeBr) fumigation and chloropicrin (CP) fumigation on soil N dynamics and microbial properties were evaluated in a pot experiment. All disinfection treatments increased the NH+ 4-N level and inhibited nitrification. The additional NH+ 4-N in the CP treatment probably originated from the decomposition of microbial debris by surviving microbes, while that in the SS treatment was attributable to deamination processes of soil organic N occurring in a less labile fraction in addition to the decomposition of microbial debris. The MeBr fumigation increased the level of NH+ 4-N without changing the soil microbial biomass. Based on the determinations of soil microbial biomass, substrate utilization activity (Biolog method) and microbial community structure (phospholipid fatty acid method), the effects of the MeBr, CP and SS treatments on the microbial community were compared. The MeBr fumigation had relatively mild and short-term effects on microbial biomass and activity, but altered the community structure drastically by promoting the growth of gram-positive bacteria. The CP fumigation had large and long-term impacts on microbial biomass and activity; the community structure remained unaffected except for the gram-negative bacteria. Steam sterilization had severe and persistent effects on all parameters. The severity of the effects decreased in the order SS ≥ CP > MeBr.  相似文献   

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Purpose

Re-establishment of soil nitrogen (N) capital is a priority in mine rehabilitation. We aimed to evaluate the effects of biochar addition on improving mine spoil N pools and the influence of elevated CO2 concentration on mine rehabilitation.

Materials and methods

We assessed the effects of pinewood biochar, produced at three temperatures (650, 750 and 850 °C, referred as B650, B750 and B850, respectively), on mine spoil total N concentrations with five different plant species, including a tree species (Eucalyptus crebra), N-fixing shrubs (Acacia floribunda and Allocasuarina littoralis) and C3 and C4 grasses (Austrodanthonia tenuior and Themeda australis) incubated at ambient (400 μL L?1) and elevated (700 μL L?1) atmospheric CO2 concentrations, as well as the effects of elevated CO2 on mine rehabilitation.

Results and discussion

Soil total N significantly improved following biochar incorporation under all plant species (P < 0.05) except for T. Australis. E. crebra had the highest soil total N (0.197%, 0.198% and 0.212% for B650, B750 and B850, respectively). Different from the negligible influence of elevated CO2 on soil properties under the grasses and the N-fixing shrubs, elevated CO2 significantly increased soil water and hot water extractable organic C (WEOC and HWEOC, respectively) and decreased total C under E. crebra, indicating that the nutrient demands were not met.

Conclusions

Biochar addition showed the potential in mine rehabilitation in terms of improving soil N pool, especially with E. crebra. However, it would be more difficulty to rehabilitate mine spoils in future with the rising atmospheric CO2 concentration.
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