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How are soil use and management reflected by soil organic matter characteristics: a spectroscopic approach

How are soil use and management reflected by soil organic matter characteristics: a spectroscopic... We studied the quantitative and qualitative changes of soil organic matter (SOM) due to different land uses (arable versus grassland) and treatments (organic manure and mineral fertilizer) within an agricultural crop rotation in a long‐term field experiment, conducted since 1956 at Ultuna, Sweden, on a Eutric Cambisol. The organic carbon (OC) content of the grassland plot was 1.8 times greater than that of the similarly fertilized Ca(NO3)2 treated cropped plots. The comparison of two dispersion techniques (a low‐energy sonication and a chemical dispersion which yield inherent soil aggregates) showed that increasing OC contents of the silt‐sized fractions were not matched by a linear increase of silt‐sized aggregates. This indicated saturation of the aggregates with OC and a limited capacity of particles to protect OC physically. Thermogravimetric analyses suggested an increase of free organic matter with increasing OC contents. Transmission FT‐IR spectroscopy showed relative enrichment of carboxylic, aromatic, CH and NH groups in plots with increasing OC contents. The silt‐sized fractions contained the largest SOM pool and, as revealed by 13C NMR spectroscopy, were qualitatively more influenced by the plant residue versus manure input than the clay fractions. Alkyl and O‐alkyl C in the silt‐sized fractions amounted to 57.4% of organic carbon in the animal manure treated plots and 50–53% in the other treatments. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png European Journal of Soil Science Wiley

How are soil use and management reflected by soil organic matter characteristics: a spectroscopic approach

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Wiley
Copyright
Copyright © 2006 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
ISSN
1351-0754
eISSN
1365-2389
DOI
10.1111/j.1365-2389.2006.00794.x
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Abstract

We studied the quantitative and qualitative changes of soil organic matter (SOM) due to different land uses (arable versus grassland) and treatments (organic manure and mineral fertilizer) within an agricultural crop rotation in a long‐term field experiment, conducted since 1956 at Ultuna, Sweden, on a Eutric Cambisol. The organic carbon (OC) content of the grassland plot was 1.8 times greater than that of the similarly fertilized Ca(NO3)2 treated cropped plots. The comparison of two dispersion techniques (a low‐energy sonication and a chemical dispersion which yield inherent soil aggregates) showed that increasing OC contents of the silt‐sized fractions were not matched by a linear increase of silt‐sized aggregates. This indicated saturation of the aggregates with OC and a limited capacity of particles to protect OC physically. Thermogravimetric analyses suggested an increase of free organic matter with increasing OC contents. Transmission FT‐IR spectroscopy showed relative enrichment of carboxylic, aromatic, CH and NH groups in plots with increasing OC contents. The silt‐sized fractions contained the largest SOM pool and, as revealed by 13C NMR spectroscopy, were qualitatively more influenced by the plant residue versus manure input than the clay fractions. Alkyl and O‐alkyl C in the silt‐sized fractions amounted to 57.4% of organic carbon in the animal manure treated plots and 50–53% in the other treatments.

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European Journal of Soil ScienceWiley

Published: Aug 1, 2006

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