GeodermaPub Date : 2025-05-30DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117343
B.J.P. Grard , A. Barrier-Guillot , C. Chenu
{"title":"Early pedogenesis of a young Technosol made from organic wastes","authors":"B.J.P. Grard , A. Barrier-Guillot , C. Chenu","doi":"10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117343","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117343","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Constructed soils based on urban waste, i.e. Technosols appear as a promising solution to enhance circular economy while delivering ecosystem services. Their ability to provide such services depend on their constitution as well as on their temporal evolution and pedogenesis, which is poorly known. We studied during three years the changes in an isolatic Technosol made essentially of organic urban wastes.</div><div>The study took place on a Parisian rooftop with an experimental trial of 24 plots. We compared four Technosols with similar upper layers (a mix of biowaste compost and spent mushroom substrate), but with either a mineral (shredded tiles and bricks) or an organic lower layer (shredded wood). Both types were run with and without plants. Technosols were monitored over three years and samples were taken at different times to study pedogenetic processes.</div><div>We observed a rapid and sharp volume loss of the Technosols, responsible for an important mass loss, but not leading to any increase in bulk density. A clear physico-chemical differentiation of treatments from the parent materials appeared after one and three years. The Technosoil organic C stocks decreased over time. During three years, all Technosols were a net source of nitrogen and dissolved organic carbon, released in the drainage waters. Identified pedogenesis processes were the same as in natural soils, but the changes were very fast. The key equilibrium between mineralisation of organic matter and its stabilization that must be ensured when creating such Technosols. They show the necessity for long term research on the development of Technosols.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12511,"journal":{"name":"Geoderma","volume":"459 ","pages":"Article 117343"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144166549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeodermaPub Date : 2025-05-30DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117372
Bo Yi , Qichun Zhang , Steven J. Hall , Xiang Zou , Wenjuan Huang , Wenjuan Yu , Qinsi He , Peiyu Cao , Jing Hou , Jiuwei Song , Hongjie Di , Chaoqun Lu
{"title":"Biochar stimulates nitrogen loss in anoxic soil through ammonium oxidation coupled with iron reduction","authors":"Bo Yi , Qichun Zhang , Steven J. Hall , Xiang Zou , Wenjuan Huang , Wenjuan Yu , Qinsi He , Peiyu Cao , Jing Hou , Jiuwei Song , Hongjie Di , Chaoqun Lu","doi":"10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117372","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117372","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Anaerobic ammonium oxidation coupled with iron (Fe) reduction, known as Feammox, is an important nitrogen (N)-cycling pathway in anoxic soils. Biochar, widely employed as a soil amendment, has been reported to influence N dynamics through its redox-active moieties, but the effects on Feammox of biochar produced with different pyrolysis temperatures remain poorly understood. We conducted a slurry incubation in rice-paddy soil with <sup>15</sup>N-isotope tracing to examine the impact of biochar pyrolyzed at 300 °C and 600 °C on Feammox under different Fe availability conditions (addition of ferrihydrite, goethite, or no Fe). Biochar pyrolysis temperature and Fe availability impacted rates of Feammox. Specifically, adding biochar pyrolyzed at 600 °C to soil at a 2 % mass ratio stimulated N loss through Feammox by 0.03 to 0.07 μg N g<sup>−1</sup> soil d<sup>-1</sup>, likely by facilitating electron transfer via its surface redox-active moieties. Feammox was highly correlated with Fe reduction despite contributing only a small fraction to overall Fe reduction. Feammox rates were greatest with ferrihydrite addition and lowest with no Fe addition, and correlated with the abundance of a known Feammox bacterium (<em>Acidimicrobiaceae</em> bacterium A6). In contrast, biochar pyrolyzed at 300 °C did not stimulate Feammox, likely due to a lack of electron shuttling capacity. Overall, our findings highlight a stimulation effect of biochar pyrolyzed at high temperature on promoting N loss as dinitrogen, underscoring its potential utility for environmentally-friendly removal of excess N from anoxic soil.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12511,"journal":{"name":"Geoderma","volume":"459 ","pages":"Article 117372"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144177723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What is the best way to communicate the uncertainty of a digital soil mapping product? Some lessons from an end-users survey","authors":"Léa Courteille , Léa Tardieu , Nadia Boukhelifa , Evelyne Lutton , Philippe Lagacherie","doi":"10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117302","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117302","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Uncertainty in digital soil mapping products is generally quantified and presented alongside the predictions in the form of a second raster map. However, it remains a challenge for end-users to integrate this additional information into their decision-making, and as a result, they tend to ignore uncertainty. The Digital Soil Mapping (DSM) literature has identified two levers for better communicating uncertainty: uncertainty representations that allow users to integrate uncertainty better than with a separate raster map, and spatial aggregation, which consists of representing the spatial information at a coarser resolution to reduce its uncertainty. For the first time in DSM, we involved a large number of end-users (263 people) via a web-based survey to evaluate alternative cartographic representations of soil map uncertainty. Respondents were assigned a decision-making task and asked to select the map that offered the best support, choosing between two maps that displayed the same soil information but differed in how uncertainty was represented and/or in the level of spatial aggregation. The choices made by the respondents as well as the comments they left at the end of the study provided a large dataset from which we could identify factors driving their preferences. We demonstrate that end-users strongly prefer uncertainty to be shown on a separate map, and also favor moderately aggregated maps. Our results question the conventional representation of soil data using high-resolution and high-uncertainty maps. We hope that this work will be valuable to scientists in soil science, as well as in other environmental mapping communities, such as ecosystem services and biodiversity, and help them more effectively communicate uncertainty to their end-users.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12511,"journal":{"name":"Geoderma","volume":"459 ","pages":"Article 117302"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144166356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeodermaPub Date : 2025-05-30DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117366
Eva Rabot , Pierre Barré , Claire Chenu , Amicie A. Delahaie , Manuel P. Martin , José-Luis Munera-Echeverri , Nicolas P.A. Saby
{"title":"A simple pedotransfer function to estimate fine fraction organic carbon contents of surface horizons in French soils","authors":"Eva Rabot , Pierre Barré , Claire Chenu , Amicie A. Delahaie , Manuel P. Martin , José-Luis Munera-Echeverri , Nicolas P.A. Saby","doi":"10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117366","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117366","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>It has been proposed to separate soil organic carbon (SOC) into two physical fractions, i.e., fine fraction organic carbon (OC<sub>fine</sub>) and coarse fraction organic carbon, to improve our ability to understand controlling factors and predict SOC contents and SOC stability. In this study, we aimed at building a simple pedotransfer function to estimate OC<sub>fine</sub> content measured using a size fractionation protocol in French soils. We define OC<sub>fine</sub> as SOC content measured in the < 50 µm fraction. We used information from the French Soil Quality Monitoring Network (RMQS, 706 observations) and from a literature search (245 observations) to build and validate the pedotransfer function. We used the Random Forest algorithm and partial dependence plots in an exploratory data analysis, to analyze the variables influencing OC<sub>fine</sub> contents and to study the shape of their relationship with OC<sub>fine</sub>. Using the knowledge gained from the exploratory analysis, we constructed a simple pedotransfer function. A slight inflection in the OC<sub>fine</sub> content was detected with increasing SOC content and a good approximation of OC<sub>fine</sub> content was reached using a second-degree polynomial relationship, with distinct coefficients depending on the land cover (i.e., croplands and permanent crops, grasslands, natural grasslands, and forests and shrubs). A cross-validation of the pedotransfer function led to an RMSE of 2.2 g kg<sup>−1</sup> and an independent validation led to an RMSE of 2.0 g kg<sup>−1</sup>. The domain of applicability of the pedotransfer function was defined as being restricted to topsoil horizons and a SOC content ≤ 90 g kg<sup>−1</sup>. The estimated OC<sub>fine</sub> is deemed equivalent to a measure after a complete soil dispersion and a size fractionation protocol. The proposed pedotransfer function could be easily used in future soil carbon modeling frameworks. From a land management perspective, the shape of the relationship found between SOC and OC<sub>fine</sub> encourages increasing SOC levels to store more carbon in soil, including in the OC<sub>fine</sub> fraction.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12511,"journal":{"name":"Geoderma","volume":"459 ","pages":"Article 117366"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144166357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeodermaPub Date : 2025-05-29DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117362
Xing Yu , Claudia Keitel , Rumainul Islam , Feike A. Dijkstra
{"title":"Nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer use efficiency: the interactive effects of fertilization and liming","authors":"Xing Yu , Claudia Keitel , Rumainul Islam , Feike A. Dijkstra","doi":"10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117362","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117362","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) play important roles in increasing agricultural productivity. However, excessive use of N and P fertilization can result in low N and P fertilizer use efficiencies (<em>RE<sub>N</sub></em> and <em>RE<sub>P</sub></em>) and loss of N and P through gaseous emission and leaching, but which also depend on soil pH conditions. In a full factorial glasshouse experiment using pots with 2.5 kg soil and adding N (0 and 100 kg N ha<sup>−1</sup>), P (0 and 50 kg P ha<sup>−1</sup>) fertilizer and lime (0, 3.5, 14 t ha<sup>−1</sup>, 100 % calcium carbonate equivalent) we investigated the main and interactive effects of our treatments on <em>RE<sub>N</sub></em> and <em>RE<sub>P</sub></em> in wheat (<em>Triticum aestivum</em>) grown in a P-poor soil. The <em>RE<sub>N</sub></em> was close to zero without P fertilization regardless of liming, but increased to 46 % with P fertilization (averaged across liming treatment) because of strong P limitation. Likewise, N fertilization increased <em>RE<sub>P</sub></em> from 6 % to 8 % averaged across the liming treatment. However, liming decreased <em>RE<sub>N</sub></em> (only when P fertilizer was added), possibly because of enhanced net N mineralization in the soil making plants less dependent on N fertilizer with liming, and increased <em>RE<sub>P</sub></em>, possibly because of reduced fertilizer P-immobilization in the soil with low pH. Overall, N and P fertilizer and lime addition changed <em>RE<sub>N</sub></em> and <em>RE<sub>P</sub></em> by changing wheat growth along with N and P uptake, thereby affecting soil available nutrients, nitrous oxide emissions and N and P loss through leaching. We highlight the importance of adjusting N and P fertilization with liming to optimize <em>RE<sub>N</sub></em> and <em>RE<sub>P</sub></em> and reduce N and P loss.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12511,"journal":{"name":"Geoderma","volume":"459 ","pages":"Article 117362"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144166366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeodermaPub Date : 2025-05-27DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117349
Bartolo Giuseppe Dimattia , Angela Righi , Matteo Bettuzzi , John Koestel , Maria Pia Morigi , Rosa Brancaccio , Silvio Salvi , Maria C. Hernandez-Soriano , Marco Bittelli
{"title":"Root traits of different wheat cultivars influence soil structure: an X-ray computed tomography and root morphology study","authors":"Bartolo Giuseppe Dimattia , Angela Righi , Matteo Bettuzzi , John Koestel , Maria Pia Morigi , Rosa Brancaccio , Silvio Salvi , Maria C. Hernandez-Soriano , Marco Bittelli","doi":"10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117349","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117349","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Plant roots play a fundamental role in maintaining soil health. Although a broad range of root traits have been reported, few studies have attempted to link root morphology with soil structure. Here, we used shovelomics to characterize the root morphology of a wheat cultivar (Paragon), and two landraces (Senatore-Cappelli, and Watkins238), and advanced soil pore and root network X-ray computed tomography to assess their impact on soil morphology at cylinder and aggregate scales. Bare soil was analyzed as a control. Minkowski functionals and percolation theory parameters were computed to characterize soil pore network morphology. Bioporosity at the cylinder scale was significantly different for all cultivars compared to the bare soil. Bare soil presented the largest structural pore volume and the smallest biopore volume, this suggesting rapid degradation of biopores. At the cylinder scale, biopore characteristics were significantly different between Senatore-Cappelli and Watkins238, with Senatore-Cappelli exhibiting more pores with diameters >1 mm. The parameters from percolation theory revealed notable differences between the rhizospheric and bare soil samples. We found significant differences between genotypes, finding statistically significant correlations among root morphology parameters and pore network geometry.</div><div>Total imaged porosity and total root volume were limited descriptors of the effect of roots on soil structure, which is better quantified by pore network connectivity measurements. Our findings confirm previous studies on the relationship between root traits and soil properties and highlight the potential of our experimental approach to explore how different genotypes may influence soil morphology, paving the way for future applications in plant phenotyping.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12511,"journal":{"name":"Geoderma","volume":"459 ","pages":"Article 117349"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144138667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeodermaPub Date : 2025-05-27DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117369
Shih-Hao Jien , Budiman Minasny , Bo-Jiun Yang , Yu-Ting Liu , Chun-Chien Yen , Mel Adelle Ocba , Yi-Ting Zhang , Chien-Hui Syu
{"title":"Enhancing Soil Carbon Storage: Developing high-resolution maps of topsoil organic carbon sequestration potential in Taiwan","authors":"Shih-Hao Jien , Budiman Minasny , Bo-Jiun Yang , Yu-Ting Liu , Chun-Chien Yen , Mel Adelle Ocba , Yi-Ting Zhang , Chien-Hui Syu","doi":"10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117369","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117369","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Developing methods to estimate Soil Organic Carbon sequestration potential (SOC<sub>sp</sub>) at the regional scale is essential for quantifying the additional stable carbon that soils can sequester for climate change mitigation. This study investigates methods to estimate SOC<sub>sp</sub> across Taiwan. It evaluates three methods for estimating SOC saturation in fine fraction soils (less than 53 µm) (Hassink, boundary line, and quantile regression) using high-density sampling (more than one site per square km in cultivated areas) and digital soil mapping. Results show that SOC<sub>sp</sub> derived from the boundary line approach was about 2.1 times higher than those estimated by the quantile regression (QR) approach. Estimates using the QR approach could be regarded as the technically achievable goal as most of the samples collected from cultivated soils had low SOC content. A moderate spatial model for SOC<sub>sp</sub> was achieved using random forest model (R<sup>2</sup>: 0.54–0.57) on validation samples. Soil type, temperature and elevation were important controlling factors of SOC<sub>sp</sub> in topsoil. Regions with high SOC<sub>sp</sub> were mainly located in intensively cultivated and clay-rich soils, with paddy soils exhibiting greater sequestration potential compared to other land uses. In contrast, most forest soils in slope and mountainous areas had low SOC<sub>sp</sub>, as their SOC levels were near or above estimated saturation in the fine fraction soils. This study offers practical and strategic insights for scientific and policy-oriented efforts to improve soil health, boost carbon sequestration, and address climate change through optimisation of land use.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12511,"journal":{"name":"Geoderma","volume":"459 ","pages":"Article 117369"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144138754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeodermaPub Date : 2025-05-27DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117352
Meijun Li , Ye Su , Qinghai Song , Yiping Zhang , Hongkai Gao , Jianzhi Dong , Wei Shao
{"title":"Corrigendum to “Identified temporal variation of soil hydraulic parameters under seasonal ecosystem change using the particle batch smoother” [Geoderma 442 (2024) 116782]","authors":"Meijun Li , Ye Su , Qinghai Song , Yiping Zhang , Hongkai Gao , Jianzhi Dong , Wei Shao","doi":"10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117352","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117352","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12511,"journal":{"name":"Geoderma","volume":"459 ","pages":"Article 117352"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144307376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeodermaPub Date : 2025-05-26DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117364
Ye Lim Park , You Jin Kim , Jun Ge Hyun , Claire Chenu , Gayoung Yoo
{"title":"Vulnerability of soil organic carbon in artificially constructed urban green spaces: Linking soil organic carbon physical fractions, microbial dynamics, and soil properties","authors":"Ye Lim Park , You Jin Kim , Jun Ge Hyun , Claire Chenu , Gayoung Yoo","doi":"10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117364","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117364","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Soils in urban green spaces are often artificially constructed and highly disturbed, yet their capacity for long-term carbon (C) sequestration remains underexplored. This study evaluates soil organic C (SOC) content and vulnerability in three types of urban green spaces, tree-only roadside greenery, belt-type roadside greenery, and urban parks, with a natural grasslands serving as a reference. We analyzed SOC physical fractions and microbial activity under varying soil structural and chemical conditions, using the SOC vulnerability index (SOCVI), defined as the ratio of labile to stable fractions, to assess SOC stability. Results show that urban parks and tree-only roadside greenery have 87% lower SOC content than grasslands on average, and they contain a disproportionately high fraction of labile C, which increases SOC vulnerability. Tree-only roadside greenery exhibited particularly high SOCVI primarily because, despite low overall C inputs, its microbial activity relative to SOC is high, leading to inefficient stabilization of SOC as stable fractions. This condition is further exacerbated by alkaline pH and compaction, which hinder effective C sequestration. Although belt-type roadside greenery achieved higher SOC content through additional C inputs from understory vegetation and slightly improved soil structure, its SOCVI remained high, indicating that increased C inputs alone does not ensure stabilization. Structural equation modeling identified that mean annual temperature (MAT), soil pH and glomalin-related soil protein (GRSP) as key regulators of SOCVI. These findings underscore that enhancing SOC sequestration in urban green spaces requires integrated management strategies that optimize soil pH, improve structural properties, and support beneficial microbial activity alongside increased C inputs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12511,"journal":{"name":"Geoderma","volume":"459 ","pages":"Article 117364"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144138668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spatial distribution of microplastics in Mollisols of the farmland in Northeast China: the role of field management and plastic sources","authors":"Pengke Yan, Shaoliang Zhang, Hao Xing, Sihua Yan, Xiaoguang Niu, Jiuqi Wang, Qiang Fu, Muhammad Aurangzeib","doi":"10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117367","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117367","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Although microplastics (MPs) have been widely found in farmland soil, the influence of pollutant sources and farmland management on MPs migration and distribution is poorly understood. In this study, we investigated the distribution of MPs in the 0–30 cm soil layers of vegetable fields with long-term mulching and surrounded by complex pollution sources under three management methods (MMs) (MM1, high fertilization dose and moderate tillage frequency; MM2, moderate fertilization dose and high tillage frequency; MM3, low fertilization dose and low tillage frequency) in Mollisols of Northeast China. Geostatistics combined with classical statistics were used to clarify the distribution of MPs and their driving factors. The results indicated that the polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polystyrene (PS), polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polyether urethane (PEUR) and a mixture of “PE and PP” (PE:PP) were found in the 0–30 cm soil layer. The dominant sizes of PE-MPs and non-PE-MPs (NPE-MPs) were 1–5 mm and <1.0 mm in the 0–30 cm soil layer. The abundance of MPs was higher in the 20–30 cm soil layer near the irrigation wells than in the 0–20 cm soil layer, and the spatial distribution of MPs was random in both layers. The distances from sampling points to the polluted sources (e.g., residential area, landfill and single farmhouse) were not significantly correlated (<em>p</em> > 0.05) with the abundance of MPs in the 0–30 cm soil layer, but were significantly correlated (<em>p</em> < 0.05) with the abundance of MaPs. The effect of fertilization dose (0.201–0.248) on the abundance of MPs was greater than that of tillage frequency (0.170–0.188). Generally, the distribution of MPs was directly affected by the distribution of MaPs in the farmland soil, while the polluted sources surrounding the farmland indirectly affected the distribution of MPs by influencing the MaPs sources. MPs formation was more affected by fertilization than by tillage. This study clarified the effects of pollution sources and MMs on the distribution of MPs in farmland soils, and provided guidance for better management of MPs contamination in farmlands.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12511,"journal":{"name":"Geoderma","volume":"459 ","pages":"Article 117367"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144138755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}