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Journal of Integrative Agriculture  2022, Vol. 21 Issue (2): 521-531    DOI: 10.1016/S2095-3119(20)63592-4
Special Issue: 农业生态环境-有机碳与农业废弃物还田合辑Agro-ecosystem & Environment—SOC
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Long-term straw return influenced ammonium ion retention at the soil aggregate scale in an Anthrosol with rice-wheat rotations in China
ZHANG Wen-zhao1, CHEN Xiao-qin2, WANG Huo-yan2, WEI Wen-xue1, ZHOU Jian-min2
1 Key Laboratory of Agro-ecological Processes in Subtropical Region and Taoyuan Station of Agro-Ecology Research, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha 410125, P.R.China
2 State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, P.R.China

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摘要  

团聚体是诸如铵离子(NH4+)固持等土壤物理化学和生物过程的重要影响因素。秸秆还田可促进有机碳固存和提高作物产量,因而备受关注。然而,在农田土壤中,秸秆还田对团聚体尺度上NH4+的固持行为的影响尚未见报道。本研究以太湖流域的稻麦轮作长期定位试验为研究对象,选取不施肥(CK)、无机氮磷钾肥(NPK)和无机氮磷钾肥配施秸秆还田等三个施肥处理,采用湿筛法筛分微团聚体(<0.25mm),微团聚体有机碳采用H2O2氧化去除,目的在于评估长期秸秆还田对微团聚体吸附和固定NH4+的影响。结果表明长期秸秆还田可显著提高微团聚体有机碳含量和促进微团聚体对NH4+的吸附,但抑制了微团聚体对NH4+的固定。随着有机碳含量的增加,微团聚体对NH4+的吸附潜力和吸附强度增加,但对NH4+的固定降低,表明有机碳影响NH4+吸附固定的重要性。微团聚体经有机碳氧化后,NPKS处理对NH4+的吸附潜力明显下降,但三个施肥处理对NH4+的固定能力明显增强,这进一步证实了有机碳在NH4+吸附固定方面的重要性。因此,长期秸秆还田可通过提高土壤有机碳含量影响NH4+的吸附固定,进而提高稻麦轮作系统土壤氮的生物有效性和减少肥料氮的损失。



Abstract  Soil aggregates are an important controlling factor for the physico-chemical and biological processes such as ammonium (NH4+) retention.  Straw return to the field is increasingly recommended to promote soil carbon (C) sequestration and improve crop yields.  However, the effects of straw return on NH4+ retention at soil aggregate level in agricultural soils have seldom been investigated.  This study aimed to evaluate the influences of long-term straw return on NH4+ adsorption and fixation in microaggregates (<0.25 mm) with or without soil organic carbon (SOC) oxidization.  Soil samples were collected from plots of three treatments, i.e., no fertilizer (CK), inorganic NPK fertilizers (NPK), and inorganic NPK fertilizers with rice straw return (NPKS), from a 20-year-old field trial with rice-wheat rotations in Taihu Lake Region, China.  Soil aggregates were separated using wet-sieving method.  The SOC of microaggregates was oxidized by H2O2.  The results showed that long-term straw return significantly increased SOC and NH4+ adsorption, but inhibited NH4+ fixation in microaggregates.  NH4+ adsorption potential and strength - obtained from adsorption isotherms - increased, but NH4+ fixation decreased along with increasing SOC in microaggregates, indicating the important role of SOC in NH4+ adsorption and fixation.  This was verified by the SOC oxidization test that showed a relative decrease in NH4+ adsorption potential for the NPKS treatment and an increase in NH4+ fixation in all three treatments.  Therefore, long-term straw return influences NH4+ adsorption and fixation by enhancing SOC content and could improve N availability for crop uptake and minimize applied N fertilizer losses in rice-wheat cropping systems.
Keywords:  soil organic carbon       microaggregates       NH4+        adsorption       fixation  
Received: 05 August 2020   Accepted: 04 September 2020
Fund: This study was funded by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFD0200307 and 2016YFD0200108) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41401295 and 41271309). 
About author:  ZHANG Wen-zhao, Tel: +86-451-84619716, E-mail: wzhzh@isa.ac.cn; Correspondence CHEN Xiao-qin, Tel: +86-25-86881188, E-mail: xqchen@issas.ac.cn

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ZHANG Wen-zhao, CHEN Xiao-qin, WANG Huo-yan, WEI Wen-xue, ZHOU Jian-min. 2022. Long-term straw return influenced ammonium ion retention at the soil aggregate scale in an Anthrosol with rice-wheat rotations in China. Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 21(2): 521-531.

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