Elution of inorganic and organic phosphorus from surface applied organic amendments

2008 ◽  
Vol 88 (5) ◽  
pp. 709-718
Author(s):  
M K Idowu ◽  
D V Ige ◽  
O O Akinremi

Understanding the effects of organic amendments on the movement of organic and inorganic phosphorus (P) in soils is important for effective P management in agricultural soils. Thus, the effects of beef cattle manure, hog manure and biosolids on the downward movement of organic (Porg) and inorganic (Pi) P in Lakeland and Osborne soils were investigated. The amendments were added to the soils at the rate of 0, 200, 400 and 800 kg P ha-1 by mixing with the top 1 cm of soil in a column. The column was eluted with 20 pore volumes (PV) of 0.01 M CaCl2. The amount of total P (PT), Porg and Pi in the effluent was determined. The concentrations of Porg and Pi in the effluent increased as the rate of amendment application increased. A greater percentage of PT was lost as Pi in the soils amended with hog manure and biosolids, while in the soil amended with beef cattle manure, Porg constituted a greater portion of the total P eluted. As much as 63% of total P eluted from the Lakeland soil at the highest rate of beef cattle manure was in the form of Porg. Lakeland soil retained more Pi than the Osborne soil due to its greater P retention capacity. Organic P was lost within the 2nd and the 4th PV in the two soils, which illustrated the ease of Porg movement through the soil. In conclusion, both organic and inorganic P can move through the soil in organically amended soils and the risk of losing organic P by leaching is greater in soils amended with high rates of beef cattle manure. Key words: Biosolids, hog manure, beef cattle manure, elution, organic phosphorus, inorganic phosphorus

2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucas Boscov Braos ◽  
Mara Cristina Pessôa da Cruz ◽  
Manoel Evaristo Ferreira ◽  
Fernando Kuhnen

Inorganic phosphorus (Pi) usually controls the P availability in tropical soils, but the contribution of organic P (Po) should not be neglected, mainly in systems with low P input or management systems that promote organic matter accumulation. The aims of this study were to evaluate the changes in the Po fractions over time in soil fertilized and not fertilized with cattle manure and to correlate Po forms with available P extracted by anion exchange resin. The experiment was carried out under field conditions, in a sandy-clay loam Haplustox. The experimental design was a 2 × 9 randomized complete block factorial design, in which the first factor was manure application (20 t ha-1) or absence, and the second the soil sampling times (3, 7, 14, 21, 28, 49, 70, 91, and 112 days) after manure incorporation. Labile, moderately labile and non-labile Po fractions were determined in the soil material of each sampling. Manure fertilization increased the Po levels in the moderately labile and non-labile fractions and the total organic P, but did not affect the Po fraction proportions in relation to total organic P. On average, 5.1 % of total Po was in the labile, 44.4 % in the moderately labile and 50.5 % in the non-labile fractions. Available P (resin P) was more affected by the manure soluble Pi rather than by the labile Po forms. The labile and non-labile Po fractions varied randomly with no defined trend in relation to the samplings; for this reason, the data did not fit any mathematical model.


Soil Research ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 1095 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Falkiner ◽  
P. J. Polglase

We examined the fate of applied phosphorus (P) in a young Pinus radiata plantation in south-eastern Australia, spray-irrigated with secondary-treated municipal effluent. Measurements included changes (before irrigation, and after 5 years) in total P, total organic P, total inorganic P, labile P, and sorption and desorption characteristics. During the first 5 years a total of 363 kg/ha of P was applied at an average concentration of 5.4 mg/L. Irrigation changed the forms and distribution of P throughout the profile (0–1 m). Increases in labile inorganic P (membrane-exchangeable, bicarbonate-extractable, and in soil solution) were confined mostly to the 0–0.5 m horizon, and wholly within the 0–0.7 m horizon. In addition, large amounts of organic P (204 kg/ha) were mineralised within the surface 0.7 m, due to stimulation of decomposer activity by increased soil water. Mineralisation, therefore, provided a significant and additional input of inorganic P to soil. Irrigation and P additions changed both the placement and curvature of soil sorption isotherms. Retention capacity (0–0.5 m), calculated from P sorption isotherms, decreased by 180 kg/ha. Desorbable P, determined by sequential extraction with dilute acid, increased by 184 kg/ha. Thus, these 2 independent methods of measuring the changes in exchangeable P gave the same result. Of the total inorganic P added to the soil (in effluent and mineralised), 25% remained in the exchangeable form; the rest was retained unavailable for short-term exchange and migration through soil. After 5 years, fluxes (kg/ha) of P in the 0–0.7 m horizon were: input in effluent less storage in vegetation (323), change in total organic P (–204), change in total inorganic P (517), net change in total P (313). Thus, 97% of the net amount of P added in effluent was recovered in the surface 0.7 m. Results have implications for the way in which P retention capacity is calculated under effluent irrigation.


2011 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Marta Sampietro Vattuone ◽  
Jimena Roldán ◽  
Liliana Neder ◽  
Mario Gabriel Maldonado ◽  
Marta Amelia Vattuone

AbstractOur study area is from an early agricultural archaeological site named “El Tolar” (1st to 9th century AD), located in Tafí Valley (Tucumán, northwest Argentina). The objective was to identify geochemical signatures generated by the sustained agrarian use of soils. Chemical and pedological studies were made in different archaeological contexts. Physical and chemical features, such as bulk density, pH, organic and inorganic phosphorus, and available copper, manganese and iron, were taken into account. The results suggested that a buried paleosol identified was contemporary with the occupation of the site. It also showed characteristics clearly related to pre-Hispanic agrarian production. The concentrations of organic phosphorus and iron in agricultural soils probably reflect the use of fertilizers. The application of geoscience techniques allowed us to obtain important information on their behaviour and socio-economic development. This paper constitutes the first pedogeochemical approach to the study of Argentinean pre-Hispanic agricultural soils.


2004 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Abul Kashem ◽  
Olalekan Oluwole Akinremi ◽  
Geza Joseph Racz

Information on the P fractions in soils treated with different organic amendments is needed to better manage land application of organic amendments to agricultural soils. This study investigated the forms and distribution of P after 1, 4 and 16 wk in a Lakeland silty clay loam soil using a sequential fractionation procedure. Phosphorus was added at rates of 0, 123, 307 and 614 mg P kg-1 in the form of biosolids, hog manure, cattle manure and fertilizer P. The largest difference among the amendments was in the water-extractable P fraction, which was significantly lower in soil amended with biosolids. Regression analysis showed that the slope of P increment in the H2O fraction as a function of P application rate was four times lower for biosolids (0.06) than for hog manure (0.24) and seven times lower than for fertilizer (0.42) amended soils. In the biosolids-amended soil, there was a net increase of H2O-P, NaOH-Pi and HCl-P fractions at the expense of organic P (NaOH-Po) and residual P fractions after 16 wk of incubation, signifying net P mineralization. In hog manure amended soil, H2O-P decreased by 128 mg kg-1 with a corresponding increase in the NaHCO3-P, possibly due to P sorption during the 16 wk of incubation. The results for cattle manure indicated net immobilization of P as the H2O-P and NaHCO3-P declined while the inorganic P (NaOHPi), HCl-P and residual P increased with incubation time. The transformation of P in fertilizer-amended soil was similar to that of hog manure amended soil. The amount of labile P (defined as H2O-P plus NaHCO3-P) in amended soils followed the order of fertilizer P > hog manure > cattle manure > biosolids. Key words: Phosphorus fractions, sequential P extraction, incubation, organic amendments


2004 ◽  
Vol 84 (4) ◽  
pp. 459-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Abul Kashem ◽  
Olalekan Oluwole Akinremi ◽  
Geza Joseph Racz

Information on the extractable P in soils treated with different organic amendments and how it changes with time is important to a sound management of manure addition to agriculture soils. This laboratory study investigated the impact of adding municipal biosolids, hog and cattle manures and monoammonium phosphate (MAP) on extractable P in soils. Phosphorus was added at rates of 0, 110, 220, 440 and 880 mg P kg-1 for the Osborne soil (Gleysolic Humic Vertisol), and 0, 123, 307 and 614 mg P kg-1 for the Lakeland soil (Gleyed Rego Black Chernozem) in the form of biosolids, hog manure, cattle manure and MAP. The soils were incubated at field capacity for 1, 4, 16 and 32 wk after which they were extracted using H2O, NH4Cl, NaHCO3 (Olsen P), and the Kelowna and Mehlich-3 extracts. Regardless of extractant and soil, extractable P was small 1 wk after adding biosolids (17-93 mg kg-1 as Olsen P) and large with MAP (59-672 mg kg-1 as Olsen P) while hog and cattle manures were intermediate between biosolids and MAP (20-461 mg kg-1 as Olsen P). In biosolids-amended soils, extractable P increased slightly with increasing incubation time indicating net P mineralization. With MAP, extractable P declined from 672 mg kg-1 after 1 wk to 157 mg kg-1 after 16 wk of incubation at the highest P application rate in the Osborne soil. In the Lakeland soil, the decrease in extractable P with MAP addition was small (from 398 to 332 mg kg-1) and was similar to the changes with cattle manure P with incubation time. Extractable P with cattle manure in the Osborne soil and with hog manure in the Lakeland soil did not change with incubation time. In both soils, extraction efficiency was in the order of H2O < NH4Cl < NaHCO3 < Kelowna < Mehlich-3. Across P application rates, the efficiency of added P as measured by NaHCO3 increased only with biosol ids from 12% after 1 wk to 21% after 32 wk of incubation, while it decreased in the same period from 55 to 44% with hog manure, from 34 to 32% with cattle manure and from 74 to 17% with MAP in the Osborne soil. Soil samples taken 4 wk following addition o f hog and cattle manures should reflect plant-available P, while soil samples taken within the same period following the application of biosolids are likely to underestimate plant-available P. Key words: Extractable phosphorus, organic amendments, soils, single extraction, incubation


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huck Ywih Ch’ng ◽  
Osumanu Haruna Ahmed ◽  
Nik Muhamad Ab. Majid

In acid soils, soluble inorganic phosphorus is fixed by aluminium and iron. To overcome this problem, acid soils are limed to fix aluminium and iron but this practice is not economical. The practice is also not environmentally friendly. This study was conducted to improve phosphorus availability using organic amendments (biochar and compost produced from chicken litter and pineapple leaves, resp.) to fix aluminium and iron instead of phosphorus. Amending soil with biochar or compost or a mixture of biochar and compost increased total phosphorus, available phosphorus, inorganic phosphorus fractions (soluble inorganic phosphorus, aluminium bound inorganic phosphorus, iron bound inorganic phosphorus, redundant soluble inorganic phosphorus, and calcium bound phosphorus), and organic phosphorus. This was possible because the organic amendments increased soil pH and reduced exchangeable acidity, exchangeable aluminium, and exchangeable iron. The findings suggest that the organic amendments altered soil chemical properties in a way that enhanced the availability of phosphorus in this study. The amendments effectively fixed aluminium and iron instead of phosphorus, thus rendering phosphorus available by keeping the inorganic phosphorus in a bioavailable labile phosphorus pool for a longer period compared with application of Triple Superphosphate without organic amendments.


1965 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. K. John ◽  
P. N. Sprout ◽  
C. C. Kelley

The relationship of organic phosphorus content to a number of chemical properties was studied in the surface horizons of 38 soils of six different soil orders in British Columbia.The concentration of organic P ranged from 1.8 to 77.7% of the total P with amounts varying from 21 to 802 p.p.m. The forested soils of the Podzolic and Brunisolic Orders contained the least organic P. However, the wide range in organic P content within some soil orders indicated that its distribution was not entirely characteristic of the soil order.Simple correlation studies between organic P and nitrogen, carbon, pH, per cent base saturation, total P, and free iron in all soils before assigning them to groups indicated that only nitrogen and carbon were significantly related to organic P. Significant relationships between the other variables and organic P were restricted to specific soil orders. The organic P content has been found to be primarily dependent on nitrogen and pH, since the inclusion of the other independent variables in the multiple regression did not significantly change the coefficient of determination.The range of C/organic P and N/organic P ratios for the 38 samples was between 46 and 648 and 5.5 to 57.6 respectively. Soil pH was the only variable studied which could account for the wide variation of these ratios.


1960 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. T. Friend ◽  
H. F. Birch

Phosphate responses of wheat in a number of soil types have been correlated with the amounts of phosphate extracted by ten different methods. Of these only total organic phosphorus, and inorganic phosphorus extracted with hot 0·1N caustic soda, were significantly related to phosphate response, the former at the 1% level and the latter at the 5% level. The amount of organic phosphorus in the soil was also found to be significantly related, in each instance at the 5% level, to phosphate responses of grass and the percentage phosphate in the grass. When the amount of organic phosphorus was considered together with the phosphate retention capacity of the soil, to give a measure of available mineralized phosphate, the relationships to response (and uptake of phosphorus by grasses) was more significant than with organic phosphorus alone.The organic phosphorus fraction accounted for about 86% of the total soil phosphorus. Measurable amounts of water-soluble organic phosphorus were found with all the soils. The amounts were, however, not significantly related to phosphate response. Moreover, it was found that while the soil extract containing organic phosphorus decomposed, it did so without the production of mineral phosphate. From this, and further evidence in the literature, it is considered that the organic complex in the soil, rather than the water soluble phosphorus, is the main source for the plant.


2003 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. P. Carefoot ◽  
J. K. Whalen

Over-fertilization of agricultural soils with P has been linked to water pollution, and it is becoming apparent that subsurface P losses can be substantial. The silty-loam Gleysol chosen for this study contained 146 mg Mehlich-3 P kg-1, which exceeds the critical limit (66 mg Mehlich-3 P kg-1) for Québec. Equal quantities of fertilizer P (45 kg P ha-1) were applied from inorganic (triple superphosphate) and organic (composted cattle manure) sources to corn-corn and corn-soybean rotations. We evaluated crop production, the Mehlich-3 P and degree of soil P saturation levels, and the P concentration in subsurface water. Crop yields were unaffected by the fertilizer source, and only 31 to 67% of the P applied over a 2-yr period was exported, suggesting that the P fertilizer rate, chosen to match the P requirements of the corn crop, was excessive. After 2 yr, surface (0 to 15 cm) soils contained 149 to 199 mg Mehlich-3 P kg-1 and the Mehlich-3 (P/Al) saturation ratio (DSPSM3) ranged from 0.10 to 0.14. Subsurface water from piezometers installed to a 60-cm depth contained between 0.3 and 1.7 mg total P L-1, and particulate P was the dominant P form at most sampling dates. Mehlich-3 P was positively correlated with dissolved reactive P, whereas the DSPSM3 was positively correlated with the total P and particulate P concentrations in subsurface water. We conclude that these soil test parameters could be useful indicators of subsurface P losses from Québec soils. Key words: Soil test P, degree of soil P saturation, composted cattle manure, triple superphosphate, P leaching


1993 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 371-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. P. O'Halloran ◽  
A. Sigrist

The effects of incubating monocalcium phosphate monohydrate (MCPM) with liquid hog manure (LHM) on P availability and uptake by Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.) were evaluated in a 99-d growth chamber experiment. Liquid hog manure with (0.738 g P kg−1 fresh LHM) or without MCPM was aerated for a 21-d period at 24 °C. The soils used in this experiment were an Ormstown silty clay loam (Orthic Humic Podzol), and a Ste. Rosalie clay loam (Humic Podzol). Five treatments were applied to each soil: (i) control with no LHM or MCPM additions, (ii) MCPM, (iii) LHM incubated without MCPM, (iv) LHM incubated with MCPM, and (v) the separate applications of MCPM and LHM incubated without MCPM. Rates of MCPM and LHM applications were 513 kg P2O5 ha−1 and 32 t ha−1, respectively. Incubating LHM with MCPM resulted in a loss of 6% of the total manure-N during the 3-wk incubation period, compared with a 67% loss from the unamended LHM. Additions of both MCPM and LHM had the same effect on shoot-P contents and soil P fractions regardless of whether the materials had been incubated together or added to the soil separately. When compared with adding MCPM only, LHM-MCPM mixtures resulted in greater ryegrass shoot-P contents for plants growing on the Ste. Rosalie soil. However, this increase was approximately equal to the response to LHM additions, and thus presumably not due to improved MCPM P availability. Additions of both LHM and MCPM did not affect soil inorganic P forms compared with the lone addition of MCPM, but sodium hydroxide extractable organic P and sodium bicarbonate extractable organic P tended to be higher when just MCPM was added. Key words: P fractionation, liquid hog manure, manure-fertilizer mixtures, monocalcium phosphate, P uptake


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