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Changes in organic carbon content and its physical and chemical distribution in paddy soils cultivated under different fertilisation practices
Authors:Zongqiang Wei  Jianhua Ji  Zhi Li  Xiao Yan
Institution:1.School of Environmental and Land Resource Management,Jiangxi Agricultural University,Nanchang,China;2.Soil and Fertiliser & Resources and Environment Institute,Jiangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences,Nanchang,China;3.College of City Construction,Jiangxi Normal University,Nanchang,China
Abstract:

Purpose

Chemical protection facilitates soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration and stabilisation due to a strong chemical binding with mineral surfaces and metal ions (e.g. iron Fe], aluminium Al] and calcium Ca]). However, there is not much information regarding the role of chemical protection in SOC stabilisation in paddy soils, particularly in terms of the specific forms of organo-mineral complexes such as Fe-, Al- and Ca-bonded OC.

Materials and methods

We sampled paddy soils at the 0–20 cm soil layer from a long-term field experiment (initiated in 1981) conducted under humid subtropical conditions in China, which has five fertilisation treatments (i.e. control treatment without fertiliser CK], chemical fertiliser only CF], green manure GM], Straw and Manure) with equivalent nutrient inputs (i.e. N, P2O5 and K2O at the rates of 135–67.5–135 kg ha?1, respectively, for both early and late rice) except CK. We determined the chemical binding forms of SOC and the associated soil properties in the particulate fraction (PF, >53 μm) and the mineral-associated fraction (MAF, <53 μm), which were obtained using a low-energy ultrasonic dispersion procedure, of a paddy soil in the long-term fertilisation experiment.

Results and discussion

Iron- and Al-bonded OC (Fe/Al-OC) was the dominant fraction and made up 55–70% of the total SOC in the paddy soil, while Ca-bonded OC (Ca-OC) was only a minor fraction (<4%). The Fe/Al-OC was mainly allocated in the MAF (52–67%), indicating that the chemical protection of SOC occurred mostly in the finer particle fractions. Long-term application of organic amendments increased the contents of bulk SOC by 27–34% (P < 0.05), of Fe/Al-OC by 9–16% and of Ca-OC by 35–83% (P < 0.05), whereas the sole application of chemical fertiliser had no significant effects on SOC contents of the paddy soil compared with the treatment without fertiliser inputs. Both amorphous Fe and Al extracted by ammonium oxalate (Feox and Alox) showed significant correlations with Fe/Al-OC (r = 0.52 and 0.78, respectively), but Alox appeared to have a greater influence on C stabilisation in the paddy soil.

Conclusions

These results demonstrated that the dominant chemical binding forms of SOC in the paddy soils were Fe/Al-OC and amorphous Fe/Al oxyhydrates, especially amorphous Al, contributed mostly to the chemical stabilisation of SOC.
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