Long-Term Effects of Different Fertilizer Management Practices on Soil Organic Carbon Pool in Smallholder Farms of the Huang–Huai–Hai Plains, China

2014 ◽  
pp. 180-197
2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiangbin Kong ◽  
Baoguo Li ◽  
Rattan Lal ◽  
Kejiang Li ◽  
Youlu Bai

Agronomy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 2135
Author(s):  
Peigang Dai ◽  
Ping Cong ◽  
Peng Wang ◽  
Jianxin Dong ◽  
Zhaorong Dong ◽  
...  

Long term tobacco planting leads to soil acidification. A ten-year experiment with various fertilization treatments (no fertilization (CK), chemical fertilizer (CF), organic-inorganic compound fertilizer (OCF), and organic fertilizer (OF)) was carried out between 2010 and 2020 in a continuous cropping system of Nicotiana tabacum in the brown soil of eastern China, to assess the effects of organic fertilizer on the improvement of tobacco planting soil acidification. The results indicated that treatments OCF and OF reduced the soil exchangeable acid content, of which the exchangeable aluminum showed the largest reduction by 51.28% with the OF treatment. In contrast, treatment CF showed more significant increases in exchangeable aluminum (Al)and Al saturation, and also apparently increased soil NO3−-N, NH4+-N and nitrification potential (NP) than other treatments. Treatments of OCF and OF significantly increased the total amount of exchangeable base (EBC) by 37.19% and 42.00% compared with CF, respectively. Redundancy analysis (RDA) showed that NP, NH4+-N, and NO3−-N were the important factors indicating soil acidification, while EBC and exchangeable K were the significant factors restricting soil acidification. Inevitably, OCF could improve the soil organic carbon pool and labile organic carbon pool. The structural equation model (SEM) showed that OCF treatment increased the soil organic carbon pool mainly by inhibiting soil nitrification and reducing the content of exchangeable Al. In conclusion, both OF and OCF treatments were effective methods to alleviate tobacco planting soil acidification, however OCF had more advantages in improving soil organic carbon pool.


2021 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-138
Author(s):  
Vijo Thomas Kurien ◽  
Elvin Thomas ◽  
S. Prasanth Narayanan ◽  
A. P. Thomas

Agronomy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 650
Author(s):  
Jesús Aguilera-Huertas ◽  
Beatriz Lozano-García ◽  
Manuel González-Rosado ◽  
Luis Parras-Alcántara

The short- and medium—long-term effects of management and hillside position on soil organic carbon (SOC) changes were studied in a centenary Mediterranean rainfed olive grove. One way to measure these changes is to analyze the soil quality, as it assesses soil degradation degree and attempts to identify management practices for sustainable soil use. In this context, the SOC stratification index (SR-COS) is one of the best indicators of soil quality to assess the degradation degree from SOC content without analyzing other soil properties. The SR-SOC was calculated in soil profiles (horizon-by-horizon) to identify the best soil management practices for sustainable use. The following time periods and soil management combinations were tested: (i) in the medium‒long-term (17 years) from conventional tillage (CT) to no-tillage (NT), (ii) in the short-term (2 years) from CT to no-tillage with cover crops (NT-CC), and (iii) the effect in the short-term (from CT to NT-CC) of different topographic positions along a hillside. The results indicate that the SR-SOC increased with depth for all management practices. The SR-SOC ranged from 1.21 to 1.73 in CT0, from 1.48 to 3.01 in CT1, from 1.15 to 2.48 in CT2, from 1.22 to 2.39 in NT-CC and from 0.98 to 4.16 in NT; therefore, the soil quality from the SR-SOC index was not directly linked to the increase or loss of SOC along the soil profile. This demonstrates the time-variability of SR-SOC and that NT improves soil quality in the long-term.


2003 ◽  
Vol 83 (4) ◽  
pp. 363-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. VandenBygaart ◽  
E. G. Gregorich ◽  
D. A. Angers

To fulfill commitments under the Kyoto Protocol, Canada is required to provide verifiable estimates and uncertainties for soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks, and for changes in those stocks over time. Estimates and uncertainties for agricultural soils can be derived from long-term studies that have measured differences in SOC between different management practices. We compiled published data from long-term studies in Canada to assess the effect of agricultural management on SOC. A total of 62 studies were compiled, in which the difference in SOC was determined for conversion from native land to cropland, and for different tillage, crop rotation and fertilizer management practices. There was a loss of 24 ± 6% of the SOC after native land was converted to agricultural land. No-till (NT) increased the storage of SOC in western Canada by 2.9 ± 1.3 Mg ha-1; however, in eastern Canada conversion to NT did not increase SOC. In general, the potential to store SOC when NT was adopted decreased with increasing background levels of SOC. Using no-tillage, reducing summer fallow, including hay in rotation with wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), plowing green manures into the soil, and applying N and organic fertilizers were the practices that tended to show the most consistent in creases in SOC storage. By relating treatment SOC levels to those in the control treatments, SOC stock change factors and their levels of uncertainty were derived for use in empirical models, such as the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Guidelines model for C stock changes. However, we must be careful when attempting to extrapolate research plot data to farmers’ fields since the history of soil and crop management has a significant influence on existing and future SOC stocks. Key words: C sequestration, tillage, crop rotations, fertilizer, cropping intensity, Canada


2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 476-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
He-ping Ma ◽  
Xiao-lin Yang ◽  
Qi-qiang Guo ◽  
Xin-jun Zhang ◽  
Chen-ni Zhou

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