The response of soil organic carbon sequestration to organic materials addition in saline-alkali soil: from the perspective of soil aggregate structure and organic carbon component

IF 3.9 2区农林科学 Q1 AGRONOMY

Plant and Soil Pub Date : 2025-01-06 DOI:10.1007/s11104-024-07163-y

Liuyu Zhang, Mengmeng Chen, Yutong Zong, Zeqiang Sun, Yuyi Li, Xiaodong Ding, Shirong Zhang

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Abstract

Background and aims

Promoting soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration is the key to improving soil quality. Adding organic materials is a common practice to promote SOC sequestration. However, the mechanism of SOC sequestration in saline-alkali soil with different organic materials addition is still unclear.

Methods

Field experiment was conducted: (1) Control, no fertilization; (2) NPK, only mineral fertilizer addition; (3) OF, NPK plus 2000 kg C ha^-1 addition of organic fertilizer; (4) MS, NPK plus 2000 kg C ha^-1 addition of maize straw.

Results

Compared with NPK treatment, the mean weight diameter (MWD) in OF and MS treatments was increased by 23.08% and 11.54%, respectively, which was due to the reduction of exchangeable sodium saturation percentage. Exchangeable calcium and magnesium were positively correlated with MWD, and their contents in OF treatment were 6.89-32.05% higher than those in MS treatment. Meanwhile, MWD was positively correlated with SOC stock, and small macro-aggregates contributed the most to SOC. Compared with NPK treatment, the ratio of mineral-associated organic carbon to particular organic carbon in MS and OF treatments were increased by 34.06% and 80.88%, respectively. Exchangeable magnesium and calcium could bind with polysaccharide, carboxyl and phenol to form complex under organic materials addition. Hence, SOC stock in OF and MS treatments was increased by 14.18% and 6.38% compared to NPK treatment, respectively.

Conclusion

The addition of organic materials improved the stability of aggregate structure and SOC pool in saline-alkali soil, thereby promoting SOC sequestration, in which organic fertilizer showed better effect.

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Plant and Soil 农林科学-农艺学

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8.20

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8.20%

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543

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2.5 months

期刊介绍： Plant and Soil publishes original papers and review articles exploring the interface of plant biology and soil sciences, and that enhance our mechanistic understanding of plant-soil interactions. We focus on the interface of plant biology and soil sciences, and seek those manuscripts with a strong mechanistic component which develop and test hypotheses aimed at understanding underlying mechanisms of plant-soil interactions. Manuscripts can include both fundamental and applied aspects of mineral nutrition, plant water relations, symbiotic and pathogenic plant-microbe interactions, root anatomy and morphology, soil biology, ecology, agrochemistry and agrophysics, as long as they are hypothesis-driven and enhance our mechanistic understanding. Articles including a major molecular or modelling component also fall within the scope of the journal. All contributions appear in the English language, with consistent spelling, using either American or British English.