scholarly journals Soil enzyme activities and soil microbe population as influenced by long-term fertilizer management during the barley growth in Hunan Province, China

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (40) ◽  
pp. 1720-1727 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tang Haiming ◽  
Xiao Xiaoping ◽  
Sun Jimin ◽  
Guo Lijun ◽  
Wang Ke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Enzyme Activities ◽  
Soil Enzyme ◽  
Hunan Province ◽  
Fertilizer Management ◽  
Soil Enzyme Activities ◽  
Soil Microbe ◽  
Microbe Population

scholarly journals Effects of Tree Species and Soil Enzyme Activities on Soil Nutrients in Dryland Plantations

Forests ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 1153
Author(s):  
Yage Li ◽  
Chun Han ◽  
Shan Sun ◽  
Changming Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Soil Nutrients ◽  
Tree Species ◽  
Enzyme Activities ◽  
Chemical Properties ◽  
Soil Enzyme ◽  
Pinus Tabulaeformis ◽  
Soil Enzyme Activities ◽  
Caragana Korshinskii ◽  
Nitrogen Phosphorus

Long-term afforestation strongly changes the soil’s physicochemical and biological properties. However, the underlying mechanism of different tree species driving change in soil nutrients is still unclear in the long-term dryland plantations of the Loess Plateau, China. In this study, samples of surface soil (0–20 cm) and woody litter were collected from five plantations (≥50 years) of Caragana korshinskii, Armeniaca sibirica, Populus hopeiensis, Platycladus orientalis, and Pinus tabulaeformis and a natural grassland, and tested for the carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium contents, as well as the soil sucrase (SC), urease (UE), and alkaline phosphorus (ALP) activities. We found that soil nutrients, enzyme activities, and the litter’s chemical properties obviously varied among five tree species. C. korshinskii significantly increased the soil’s TC, organic carbon (OC), total nitrogen (TN), available nitrogen (AN), and available potassium (AK) by 28.42%, 56.08%, 57.41%, 107.25%, and 10.29%, respectively, and also increased the soil’s available phosphorus (AP) by 18.56%; while P. orientalis significantly decreased soil TN (38.89%), TP (30.58%), AP (76.39%), TK (8.25%), and AK (8.33%), and also decreased soil OC (18.01%) and AN (1.09%), compared with those in grassland. The C. korshinskii plantation had higher quality litter and soil enzyme activities than the P. orientalis plantation. Moreover, 62.2% of the total variation in soil nutrients was explained by the litter’s chemical properties and soil enzyme activities, and the litter phosphorus (LP) and soil ALP had a more significant and positive impact on soil nutrients. Therefore, tree species, LP, and soil ALP were key factors driving soil nutrient succession in dryland plantations. The significantly positive nitrogen–phosphorus coupling relationship in the “litter–enzyme–soil” system revealed that the improving nitrogen level promoted the phosphorus cycle of the plantation ecosystem. Our results suggest that leguminous tree species are more suitable for dryland afforestation through the regulation of litter quality and soil enzyme activities.

scholarly journals Soil enzyme activities under long-term tillage and crop rotation systems in subtropical agro-ecosystems

2004 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 300-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elcio Liborio Balota ◽  
Miriam Kanashiro ◽  
Arnaldo Colozzi Filho ◽  
Diva Souza Andrade ◽  
Richard Peter Dick
Keyword(s):  
Crop Rotation ◽  
Enzyme Activities ◽  
Soil Enzyme ◽  
Soil Enzyme Activities

scholarly journals Change of soil microbial community under long-term fertilization in a reclaimed sandy agricultural ecosystem

PeerJ ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. e6497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zengru Wang ◽  
Yubing Liu ◽  
Lina Zhao ◽  
Wenli Zhang ◽  
Lichao Liu
Keyword(s):  
Microbial Community ◽  
Crop Yield ◽  
Soil Microbial Community ◽  
Enzyme Activities ◽  
Bacterial Abundance ◽  
Soil Enzyme ◽  
Soil Enzyme Activities ◽  
Soil Microbial Community Structure ◽  
Soil Microbial

The importance of soil microbial flora in agro-ecosystems is well known, but there is limited understanding of the effects of long-term fertilization on soil microbial community succession in different farming management practices. Here, we report the responses of soil microbial community structure, abundance and activity to chemical (CF) and organic fertilization (OF) treatments in a sandy agricultural system of wheat-maize rotation over a 17-year period. Illumina MiSeq sequencing showed that the microbial community diversity and richness showed no significant changes in bacteria but decreased in fungi under both CF and OF treatments. The dominant species showing significant differences between fertilization regimes were Actinobacteria, Acidobacteria and Ascomycota at the phylum level, as well as some unclassified genera of other phyla at the genus level. As expected, soil organic matter content, nutrient element concentrations and bacterial abundance were enhanced by both types of fertilization, especially in OF, but fungal abundance was inhibited by OF. Redundancy analysis revealed that soil enzyme activities were closely related to both bacterial and fungal communities, and the soil nutrient, texture and pH value together determined the community structures. Bacterial abundance might be the primary driver of crop yield, and soil enzyme activities may reflect crop yield. Our results suggest a relatively permanent response of soil microbial communities to the long-term fertilization regimes in a reclaimed sandy agro-ecosystem from a mobile dune, and indicate that the appropriate dosage of chemical fertilizers is beneficial to sandy soil sustainability.

scholarly journals Effects of Tree Species and Soil Enzyme Activities on Soil Nutrients in The Dryland Plantations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yage Li ◽  
Chun Han ◽  
Shan Sun ◽  
Changming Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Soil Nutrients ◽  
Tree Species ◽  
Enzyme Activities ◽  
Soil Enzyme ◽  
Total Carbon ◽  
Pinus Tabulaeformis ◽  
Soil Enzyme Activities ◽  
Nitrogen And Phosphorus ◽  
High Quality

Abstract Background Long-term afforestation of different tree species strongly changes the soil physicochemical and biological properties. However, how tree species through litter quality and soil enzyme activities affect the succession of soil nutrients is still unclear in the dryland plantations. In this study, samples of surface soil (0–20 cm) and woody litter were collected from 55 years Caragana korshinskii, and 50 years Armeniaca sibirica, Populus hopeiensis, Platycladus orientalis, and Pinus tabulaeformis, and the natural grassland, and tested for the carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium contents, as well as the soil sucrase (SC), urease (UE), and alkaline phosphorus (ALP) activities. Results We found that long-term dryland plantations increased soil total carbon (TC) by 1.69%-28.42%, but significantly decreased soil total phosphorus (TP) and total potassium (TK) by 11.87%-30.58% and 4.69%-8.25%. The C. korshinskii significantly increased soil TC, organic carbon (OC), total nitrogen (TN), available nitrogen (AN), available potassium (AK), UE, and ALP by 28.42%, 56.08%, 57.41%, 107.25%, 10.29%, 11.00%, and 107.81%, respectively, and also raised soil available phosphorus (AP) by 18.56%; while the P. orientalis significantly decreased soil TN, TP, AP, TK, AK, and UE by 38.89%, 30.58%, 76.39%, 8.25%, 8.33%, and 18.97%, respectively, and also reduced soil SC and ALP by 3.84% and 25.32%, compared to those in grassland. In addition, the C. korshinskii produced high-quality litter with lower carbon, the highest nitrogen and phosphorus, and higher potassium contents than those of P. orientalis. The litter chemical properties and soil enzyme activities together explained 62.2% of the total variation of soil nutrients, especially the litter phosphorus (LP) and soil ALP. Therefore, the tree species, LP, and soil ALP were key factors driving soil nutrient succession in dryland plantations. And the significantly positive coupling relationship between nitrogen and phosphorus in the "litter-enzyme-soil" system revealed that the improvement of nitrogen level promoted the phosphorus cycle of the ecosystem. Conclusions This study suggests choosing leguminous tree species with high-quality litter to establish plantations in the phosphorus-limited dryland, which will improve soil nutrients and alleviate nutrient limitations by adjusting soil enzyme activities.

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