Dryland plant biomass and soil carbon and nitrogen fractions on transient land as influenced by tillage and crop rotation     

Upendra M. Sainju  Andrew Lenssen  Thecan Caesar-Thonthat  Jed Waddell 《Soil & Tillage Research》2007,93(2):452-461

Soil and crop management practices may alter the quantity, quality, and placement of plant residues that influence soil C and N fractions. We examined the effects of two tillage practices [conventional till (CT) and no-till (NT)] and five crop rotations [continuous spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) (CW), spring wheat–fallow (W–F), spring wheat–lentil (Lens culinaris Medic.) (W–L), spring wheat–spring wheat–fallow (W–W–F), and spring wheat–pea (Pisum sativum L.)–fallow (W–P–F)] on transient land previously under 10 years of Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) planting on the amount of plant biomass (stems + leaves) returned to the soil from 1998 to 2003 and soil C and N fractions within the surface 20 cm in March 2004. A continued CRP planting was also included as another treatment for comparing soil C and N fractions. The C and N fractions included soil organic C (SOC), soil total N (STN), microbial biomass C and N (MBC and MBN), potential C and N mineralization (PCM and PNM), and NH₄-N and NO₃-N contents. A field experiment was conducted in a mixture of Scobey clay loam (fine-loamy, mixed, Aridic Argiborolls) and Kevin clay loam (fine, montmorillonitic, Aridic Argiborolls) in Havre, MT, USA. Plant biomass yield varied by crop rotation and year and mean annualized biomass was 45–50% higher in CW and W–F than in W–L. The SOC and PCM were not influenced by treatments. The MBC at 0–5 cm was 26% higher in W–W–F than in W–F. The STN and NO₃-N at 5–20 cm and PNM at 0–5 cm were 17–1206% higher in CT with W–L than in other treatments. Similarly, MBN at 0–5 cm was higher in CT with W–L than in other treatments, except in CT with W–F and W–P–F. Reduction in the length of fallow period increased MBC and MBN but the presence of legumes, such as lentil and pea, in the crop rotation increased soil N fractions. Six years of tillage and crop rotation had minor influence on soil C and N storage between croplands and CRP planting but large differences in active soil C and N fractions.  相似文献   

Sensitivity analysis of critical parameters in microbial maintenance-energy models     

J. L. Smith 《Biology and Fertility of Soils》1989,8(1):7-12

Summary Overestimates of microbial biomass and high maintenance rates have caused calculations of annual maintenance requirements to exceed annual C inputs to soil ecosystems. An integrated approach is needed to resolve this inconsistency in the literature. In the present study a mechanistic model for soil microbial systems was used to calculate the maintenance-energy requirements of the soil microbial biomass. This model is base on product formation rather than substrate use and describes an active and sustaining population, with cryptic growth and necromass recycling. Several assumptions, such as death rates, the percentage of active population, and the yield, are required to calculate the maintenance energies, and the sensitivity of these estimated parameters on the maintenance-rate calculation was tested. The total biomass and the yield factor had the greatest effect on the calculated maintenance value. The fraction of active organisms, the death rates, and the different maintenance values for each population had little effect on the maintenance value.  相似文献   

Decomposition of pea and maize straw in Pakistani soils along a gradient in salinity     

S. Muhammad  T. Müller  R. G. Joergensen 《Biology and Fertility of Soils》2006,43(1):93-101

Maize straw and pea straw were added to five Pakistani soils from a gradient in salinity to test the following hypotheses: Increasing salinity at high pH decreases proportionally (1) the decomposition of added straw and (2) the resulting net increase in microbial biomass. In the non-amended control soils, salinity had depressive effects on microbial biomass C, biomass N, but not on biomass P and ergosterol. The ratios microbial biomass C-to-N and biomass C-to-P decreased consistently with increasing salinity. In contrast, the ergosterol-to-microbial biomass C ratio was constant in the four soils at pH>8.9, but nearly doubled in the most saline, but least alkaline, soil (pH 8.2). The addition of the maize and pea straw always increased the contents of microbial biomass C, biomass N, biomass P and ergosterol, but without clear effects of salinity. Highest mean contents of microbial biomass C and biomass N were measured at day 0, immediately after the straw was added. Straw amendments increased the CO₂ evolution rates of all five soils without any effect of salinity. The same was true for total C and total N in the two fractions of particulate organic matter (POM) 63–400 μm and >400 μm. Lowest percentage of straw-derived CO₂-C and highest recoveries of POM-C and POM-N were observed in the maize straw treatment and the reverse in the pea straw treatment. Yield coefficients were calculated for maize and pea straw based on the assumption that the balance gap between CO₂ and the amount of POM can be fully assigned to microbial products.  相似文献   

Impact of air‐drying and rewetting on PLFA profiles of soil microbial communities     

Ute Hamer  Manuela Unger  Franz Makeschin 《植物养料与土壤学杂志》2007,170(2):259-264

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不同有机材料覆盖对土壤保水效果的影响   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

车飞伟  李素艳  孙向阳  曲炳鹏  贠炳辉  王心语  熊凯毅 《水土保持通报》2020,40(2):182-187

[目的]研究不同有机材料覆盖对土壤水分蒸发量、土壤含水量的影响,并筛选出保水效果最佳的材料。[方法]以木片、树皮及经过堆腐的园林废弃物为研究对象,进行模拟蒸发及桶装控制试验。[结果]不同粒径的园林废弃物覆盖均能降低土壤水分日蒸发量,日蒸发量从大到小依次为CK,3～5 cm粒径(M_3)、0～1 cm粒径(M_1)、1～3 cm粒径(M_2)。在连续蒸发14 d后,M_2,M_1,M_3和CK的土壤水分累积蒸发量分别为193.0,269.5,304.0和1 037.0 g,与CK相比,分别减少了81.4%,74.0%,70.7%;不同有机材料覆盖均能提高土壤含水量。除了雨季之外,不同土层土壤含水量从高到低依次表现为:木片覆盖(M_4)树皮覆盖(M_5)1～3 cm粒径园林废弃物覆盖(M_2)CK。土壤含水量的年变化整体呈现出双峰趋势,一年中4—5月含水量较低,6—8月含水量较高,不同土层土壤含水量的年变化趋势基本一致。M_4,M_5,M_2和CK的0—40 cm土层土壤年平均含水量分别为32.9%,30.3%,27.4%,26.8%。[结论]木片为保水效果最好的有机材料,其次是树皮和园林废弃物。  相似文献   

Organic matter accumulation and fertilizer-induced acidification interact to affect soil microbial and enzyme activity on a long-term sugarcane management experiment     

M. H. Graham  R. J. Haynes 《Biology and Fertility of Soils》2005,41(4):249-256

The effects of crop residue management and fertilizer applications on the size and activity of the microbial community and the activity of exocellular enzymes involved in mineralization of C, N, P and S were examined on a long-term (60 years) field trial under sugarcane situated at Mount Edgecombe, South Africa. Treatments at the site included pre-harvest burning with harvest residues removed (B), burning with harvest residues (unburnt tops) left on the soil surface (B_t) and green cane harvesting with retention of a trash blanket (T). Plots were either fertilized annually with N, P and K or unfertilized. The size and activity of the microbial community and the activity of soil enzymes assayed increased with increasing inputs of crop residues (B < B_t < T) and this effect was evident to a depth of 30 cm. The metabolic quotient was decreased by inputs of both crop residues and fertilizers. Annual fertilizer additions did not affect basal respiration, increased fluorescein diacetate (FDA) hydrolysis rate and acid phosphatase, invertase and protease activities and decreased arginine ammonification rate and dehydrogenase, alkaline phosphatase, arylsulphatase and histidase activities. These effects were attributed to an interaction between the positive effect of fertilizer in increasing the size of the microbial biomass and the negative effect of fertilizer-N-induced soil acidification on microbial activity and on the activity of exocellular enzymes. Such results demonstrate the importance of using a range of measurements of microbial and enzyme activity when determining the effects of management on soil microbial and biochemical properties.  相似文献   

Soil macro-fauna in an Acacia mangium plantation in comparison to that in a primary mixed dipterocarp forest in the lowlands of Sarawak, Malaysia     

Jiro Tsukamoto  John Sabang 《Pedobiologia》2005,49(1):69-80

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Surface cast production by the earthworm Aporrectodea nocturna in a pre-alpine meadow in Switzerland   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

O. Daniel  L. Kohli  B. Schuler  J. Zever 《Biology and Fertility of Soils》1996,22(1-2):171-178

Field and laboratory experiments were carried out to describe the effects of Aporrectodea nocturna on soil characteristics in a pre-alpine meadow and to support the development of a model of cast production. In the prealpine meadow, increased cast production, first observed about 20 years ago around a newly planted hedge, was recorded to a distance of maximal 170 m from the hedge. Numbers of A. nocturna between 130 and 165 m from the hedge decreased from 164 to 16 individuals m^-2. In the same area cast production steadily decreased from about 1.5 kg m^-2 week^-1 to nil, the plant community structure changed and the microbial biomass decreased, but the root biomass and the moisture content did not change. Laboratory experiments demonstrated that high cast production was not a specific feature of the A. nocturna population nor of the soil in the meadow. Diapause of A. nocturna was terminated in the laboratory during September. A model of cast production potential by the earthworm A. nocturna was established using laboratory determinations of the relationships with body weight, temperature, and water potential. The model was shown to predict cast production in the field given the assumption that the water potential was 0 MPa. According to the model, 81% of surface cast production was by juveniles, and 19% by adults of A. nocturna.  相似文献   

Microbiological processes in soil organic phosphorus transformations in conventional and biological cropping systems   总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5  

A. Oberson  J. M. Besson  N. Maire  H. Sticher 《Biology and Fertility of Soils》1996,21(3):138-148

We studied microbiological processes in organic P transformations in soils cultivated with conventional and biological farming systems during the 13th and 14th year of different cropping systems. The treatments included control, biodynamic, bioorganic, and conventional plots and a mineral fertilization treatment. Different P fractions were investigated using a sequential fractionation method. Labile organic P, extracted by 0.5 M NaHCO₃, was not affected by the farming systems. However, residual organic P remaining in the soil at the end of the sequential fractionation procedure showed that the biodynamic treatment, in particular, led to a modification of the composition of organic P. Labile organic P, organic P extractable in 0.1 M NaOH, and total residual P all showed temporal fluctuations. As total residual P consists of more than 70% organic P, it can be assumed that residual organic P contributed to these variations. This result indicates that chemically resistant organic P participates in short-term accumulation and mineralization processes. All biological soil parameters tested in this study showed significant temporal fluctuations, mainly attributed to differences in climatic conditions between years, but possibly also related to the growth cycle of the crop. The higher values of the biological soil parameters in the biodynamic and bioorganic treatments were explained by the greater importance of manure and the different plant protection strategies. The level of phosphatase activity and mineralization of organic C indicated a higher turnover of organic substrates, and thus of organic P, in the biodynamic and bioorganic treatments. Biological parameters were shown to be critical for assessing the significance of organic P in the soil P turnover.  相似文献   

Determination of phospholipid- and lipopolysaccharide-derived fatty acids as an estimate of microbial biomass and community structures in soils   总被引：6，自引：0，他引：6  

L. Zelles  Q. Y. Bai  R. Rackwitz  D. Chadwick  F. Beese 《Biology and Fertility of Soils》1995,19(2-3):115-123

Several soils subject to different cultivation and management practices were examined by analysis of fatty acid profiles derived from phospholipids and lipopolysaccharides, using an improved sequential method which is capable of measuring ester-linked and non-ester-linked phospholipid fatty acids (EL-PLFA, NEL-PLFA, respectively) and the hydroxy fatty acids in lipopolysaccharides. A good correlation was obtained (r>0.90) between the soil biomass and total EL-PLFA in the soils investigated, which ranged from forest soils to a variety of agricultural soils. Elucidation of the composition of the community structure was an additional task. Eukaryotes can be differentiated from bacteria by the presence of polyunsaturated and -hydroxy fatty acids, both of which were much more abundant in the OF layer of the forest soil than in the remaining samples. A relatively low proportion of monomethyl branched-chain saturated fatty acids was obtained in the forest OF horizon, these being indicators for Gram-positive bacteria and actinomycetes. Various subclasses of proteobacteria produce and mid-chain hydroxy fatty acids, which occur primarily in agricultural soils. The ratios between monounsaturated fatty acids and saturated fatty acids seem to be very useful parameters of soil environmental conditions. In addition, on the basis of the differences in composition of the NEL-PLFA and hydroxy fatty acids of lipopolysaccharides, clear indications for the community structure of various soils were obtained. In the forest soils much more abundant anaerobic micro-organisms and relatively less abundant proteobacteria were present than in the other soils. In the cultivated soils, however, the proportion of Gram-negative bacteria was considerably higher. Furthermore, eukaryotes appeared to be pre-dominant in the soils once used for a manure deposit site.  相似文献