Tillage and Manure Effects on Soil and Aggregate-Associated Carbon and Nitrogen
Tillage and Manure Effects on Soil and Aggregate-Associated Carbon and Nitrogen
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DOI:
10.2136/sssaj2004.8090
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发表时间:
2004-05
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
M. Mikha;C. Rice
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作者:
M. Mikha;C. Rice
In agricultural systems, maintenance of soil organic matter (SOM) has long been recognized as a strategy to reduce soil degradation. No-tillage and manure amendments are management practices that can increase SOM content and improve soil aggregation. We investigated the effects of 10-yr of different tillage systems and N sources on soil aggregate-size distribution and aggregate-associated C and N. The study was a split-plot design replicated four times. The main plot treatment was tillage (no-tillage, NT; conventional tillage, CT) and the subplot treatment was N source (manure, M; NH 4 NO 3 fertilizer, F). The experiment was established in 1990 on a moderately welldrained Kennebec silt loam (Fine-silty, mixed, superactive mesic Cumulic Hapludll) with continuous corn (Zea mays L.). In 1999, soil samples were collected (0- to 5-cm depth) from the field treatments and separated into four aggregate-size classes (>2000, 250-2000, 53-250, and 20-53 μm) by wet sieving. Labile C and N content of all aggregate-size fractions were measured using 28-d laboratory incubations of intact and crushed aggregates. No-tillage and M treatments significantly increased total C and N and the formation of macroaggregates. Conventional tillage in comparison with NT significantly reduced macroaggregates with a significant redistribution of aggregates into microaggregates. Aggregate protected labile C and N were significantly greater for macroaggregates, (>2000 and 250-2000 μm) than microaggregates (53-250 and 20-53 μm). and greater for M than F indicating physical protection of labile C within macroaggregates. Notillage and M a lone each significantly increased soil aggregation and aggregate-associated C and N; however, NT and M together further improved soil aggregation and aggregate-protected C and N.