Spatial Variability of Soil Cation Exchange Capacity in Hilly Tea Plantation Soils Under Different Sampling Scales |
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| Authors: | WANG Yong-dong FENG Na-na LI Ting-xuan ZHANG Xi-zhou LIAO Gui-tang |
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| Institution: | College of Environment and Resources, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an 625014, P.R.China |
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| Abstract: | Studies on the spatial variability of the soil cation exchange capacity (CEC) were made to provide a theoretical basis for an ecological tea plantation and management of soil fertilizer in the tea plantation. Geostatistics were used to analyze the spatial variability of soil CEC in the tea plantation site on Mengding Mountain in Sichuan Province of China on two sampling scales. It was found that, (1) on the small scale, the soil CEC was intensively spatially correlative, the rate of nugget to sill was 18.84% and the spatially dependent range was 1 818 m, and structural factors were the main factors that affected the spatial variability of the soil CEC; (2) on the microscale, the soil CEC was also consumingly spatially dependent,and the rate of nugget to sill was 16.52%, the spatially dependent range was 311 m, and the main factors affecting the spatial variability were just the same as mentioned earlier. On the small scale, soil CEC had a stronger anisotropic structure on the slope aspect, and a weaker one on the lateral side. According to the ordinary Kriging method, the equivalence of soil CEC distributed along the lateral aspect of the slope from northeast to outhwest, and the soil CEC reduced as the elevation went down. On the microscale, the anisotropic structure was different from that measured on the small scale. It had a stronger anisotropic structure on the aspect that was near the aspect of the slope, and a weaker one near the lateral aspect of the slope. The soil CEC distributed along the lateral aspect of the slope and some distributed in the form of plots.From the top to the bottom of the slope, the soil CEC increased initially, and then reduced, and finally increased. |
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| Keywords: | spatial variability geostatistics cation exchange capacity (CEC) tea plantation |
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