Dairy Cattle Manure Effects on Soil Quality: Porosity, Earthworms, Aggregates and Soil Organic Carbon Fractions

Yagüe, María R.; Domingo‐Olivé, Francesc; Bosch‐Serra, Ángela D.; Poch, Rosa M.; Boixadera, Jaume

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“…Moreover, long‐term minimum soil disturbances under NT coupled with SR greatly favour soil aggregation (Kahlon et al ., ; Lenka & Lal, ; Busaria, Kukal, Kaur, Bhatt, & Dulazi, ; Nath & Lal, ). The lower MWD under CT could be mainly ascribed to mechanical disruption of macroaggregates from frequent tillage operations and reduced aggregate stability (Mikha et al ., ; Nath & Lal, ; Yagüe et al ., ; Zhang‐liu et al ., ). Du, Ren, Hu, Zhang, & Blanco‐Canqui () reported higher MWD under NT with residue retained than mouldboard plough with residue retained after 6 years.…”

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“…Various workers have reported that soil aggregates are stabilised by diverse mechanisms and perform differently against external factors, namely, rain, wind, irrigation and other farm management practices (Blanco‐Canqui & Lal, ; Bronick & Lal, ). These management practices in turn influence the relative distribution of aggregate mass, their stability (Cerdà, ; Saygin, Erpul, & Basaran, ; Yagüe, Domingo‐Olivé, Bosch‐Serra, Poch, & Boixadera, ; Mamedov, Huang, Aliev, & Levy, ) and the distribution of C and nitrogen (N) in these aggregates (Bandyopadhyay & Lal, ; Sundermeier, Islam, Raut, Reeder, & Dick, ). Of late, worldwide conservation agriculture (CA)/no‐till (NT) farming has gained impetus, and land under the CA regime has increased in area up to 124 m ha −1 by 2012 (Friedrich, Derpsch, & Kassam, ; Palm, Blanco‐Canqui, DeClerck, & Gatere, ), which was considered a sustainable and feasible approach to improve soil aggregation and also sustain or increase SOC (Powlson, Whitmore, & Goulding, ; Dalal, Allen, Wang, Reeves, & Gibson, ; Kahlon, Lal, & Varughese, : Palm et al ., ).…”

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Impact of 47 Years of No Tillage and Stubble Retention on Soil Aggregation and Carbon Distribution in a Vertisol

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Aggregation often provides physical protection and stabilisation of soil organic carbon (C). No tillage (NT) coupled with stubble retention (SR) and nitrogen (N) fertiliser application (90 N, 90 kg N ha−1 application) can help improve soil aggregation. However, information is lacking on the effect of long‐term NT, SR and N fertiliser (NT, SR + N) application on soil aggregation and C distribution in different aggregates in vertisols. We analysed the soil samples collected from 0‐ to 30‐cm depth from a long‐term (47 years) experiment for soil aggregation and aggregate‐associated C and N. This long‐term field experiment originally consisted of 12 treatments, having plot size of 61·9 × 6·4 m, and these plots were arranged in a randomised block design with four replications, covering an area of 1·9 ha. Soil organic C concentrations as well as stocks were significantly higher under the treatment of NT, SR + N only in 0–10 cm compared with other treatments such as conventional tillage, stubble burning + 0 N (no N application) and conventional tillage, SR + 0 N. Mineral‐associated organic C (MOC) of <0·053 mm was 5–12 times higher (r = 0·68, p < 0·05, n = 32) compared with particulate organic C (POC) (>0·053 mm) in the 0‐ to 30‐cm layer. We found that NT, SR + N treatment had a positive impact on soil aggregation, as measured by the mean weight diameter (MWD) through wet sieving procedure, but only in the top 0‐ to 10‐cm depth. MWD had significant positive correlation with water stable aggregates (r = 0·67, p < 0·05). Unlike MWD, water stable aggregates were not affected by tillage and stubble management. Large macroaggregates (>2 mm) had significantly higher organic C and N concentrations than small macroaggregates (0·25–2 mm) or microaggregates (0·053–0·25 mm). We also found that N application had a significant effect on MWD and soil organic C in vertisols. It is evident that better soil aggregation was recorded under NTSR90N could have a positive influence on soil C sequestration. Our results further highlight the importance of soil aggregation and aggregate‐associated C in relation to C sequestration. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Impact of 47 Years of No Tillage and Stubble Retention on Soil Aggregation and Carbon Distribution in a Vertisol

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“…The increased porosity between and inside the aggregates offer more space for maintaining and exchanging water and air, which prevent the leaching of cations and support more abundant and diverse microbes (Nardi, ) for nutrient transfer by metabolic activities (Chenu, Le Bissonnais, & Arrouays, ). It has been reported that the land use and soil management could alternate the soil characters, including the formation of aggregates (Barthes & Roose, ; Kotzé, Sandhage‐Hofmann, Amelung, Oomen, & du Preez, ; Yagüe, Domingo‐Olivé, Bosch‐Serra, Poch, & Boixadera, ; Zhu, Shangguan, & Deng, ) that in turn affect the above‐ground ecological processes. In some grasslands, long‐term grazing exclusion and grazing managements could enhance the soil aggregate formation (Wen, He, & Zhang, ), improve soil organic matter stability and stock (Silveira, Xu, Adewopo, Franzluebbers, & Buonadio, ), and increase aggregate stability (Li, Wang, Ma, & Li, ).…”

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Impacts of wise grazing on physicochemical and biological features of soil in a sandy grassland on the Tibetan Plateau

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Desertification is a serious environmental problem on the Tibetan Plateau and various strategies, such as long‐term fencing and grazing management, have been implemented in that region to control the soil degradation. However, little is known about the role of interactions among the soil aggregate, microbial communities, and nutrient traits in the soil restoration. In this study, we compared the effects of different restoration strategies on the formation of aggregates, the amount and distribution of soil nutrients, as well as the abundance and diversity of bacteria in a sandy soil of grassland at the Tibetan Plateau. The results demonstrated that both the grazing exclusion (GE: artificial planting and nutrient addition) and wise grazing (WG: artificial planting and nutrient addition with controlled grazing) treatments significantly increased the proportion of macroaggregates (4.0‐and 5.2‐ times, p < 0.05) compared with the control. Increased soil organic carbon, total carbon, total nitrogen, and total phosphorus were found in the aggregates of WG treatment, but not in the GE samples. In addition, WG significantly changed the bacterial composition and increased bacterial abundance in soil. This study evaluated WG as an efficient management for restoration of degraded sandy grassland in the Tibetan Plateau because it significantly enriched the soil nutrients, improved the soil structure, and increased bacterial abundance. This is the first study to relate the aggregates with nutrient accumulation and bacterial community during the soil restoration in the Tibetan Plateau.

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“…Soil aggregate stability is one of the most important properties in soils and affects water erosion, soil aeration, nutrient recycling, and biological activity, as well as plant growth (Cerdà, ; Le Guillou, Angers, Maron, Leterme, & Menasseri‐Aubry, ; Moncada, Gabriels, Cornelis, & Lobo, ). Physical forces, chemical bonds, and biological agents may drive the aggregation processes of soil particles (Lehmann & Rillig, ; Yagüe, Domingo‐Olivé, Bosch‐Serra, Poch, & Boixadera, ). Microaggregate stability is an important soil property that is usually used to determine soil erosion resistance (Wang et al, ).…”

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Influence of natural regeneration on fractal features of residue microaggregates in bauxite residue disposal areas

Zhu

Cheng

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Bauxite residue is often physically degraded, which limits vegetation establishment on the disposal areas. Microaggregate stability is an important physical property due to its significant effect on erosion and surface runoff; however, this is rarely reported for bauxite residue. Native plant encroachment on a bauxite residue disposal area in Central China has revealed that natural regeneration may ameliorate the residue and help to support plant growth. Residue samples from 5 different disposal ages were collected to determine microaggregate stability and to identify their fractal features. Following natural regeneration, the aggregate fraction 250-50 μm increased significantly from 27.4% to 40.3%, whilst the silt + clay size aggregate fraction decreased from 58.4% to 30.7%. With increasing disposal age, the residue clay dispersion ratio (CDR) ranged from 7.7% to 22.5%, whilst aggregated silt and clay ranged from 15.3% to 19.0%, Residues from mineral ore processing are disposed on land in large residue disposal areas, which may eventually create a series of ecological and environmental issues (Smart, Callery, & Courtney, 2016;Wu et al., 2016;Xue et al., 2017). In the aluminium industry, bauxite residue is an alkaline solid by-product generated when alumina is extracted from bauxite ore by the Bayer process (Goloran, Phillips, & Chen, 2016;Kong, Guo et al., 2017). The global inventory has reached 3.4 billion tons, with an annual increase of 120 million tons (Kong, Li et al., 2017;Xue, Kong, et al., 2016a). Large volumes of bauxite residue are deposited in bauxite residue disposal areas, which cause potential environmental risks, as these bare areas are sensitive to erosion by wind and water, and can be regarded as a potential source of contamination due to their high alkalinity and salinity (Gelencsér et al., 2011;Ruyters et al., 2011). In situ rehabilitation and revegetation may, however, stabilize the residue surface and minimize wind erosion (Courtney, Jordan, & Harrington, 2009;Kaur, Phillips, & Fey, 2016;Schmalenberger, O Sullivan, Gahan, Cotter, & Courtney, 2013). Its poor physical structure is nevertheless a major limitation to support plant growth (Liu, Naidu, & Ming, 2013;Zhu, Huang, Xue, William, Li, Zou, 2016a With the development of soil fractal theory, the limitation of single-fractal dimension has been stressed to describe soil particle size distribution. In order to obtain more detailed information of soil structure, multifractal theory was introduced to soil science (Li, Liu, & Jiang, 2016). Rodríguez-Lado and Lado (2016) found that particle size distribution behaved as multifractals, with scaling properties varying in different soil samples, whilst values of fractal dimension may be related to the degree of evolution of the soils. Peng et al. (2014) found that the single-fractal and multifractal parameters could describe soil particle size distribution and the influences of soil structure effectively. inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy (Jones et al., 2011). Exchan...

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Dairy Cattle Manure Effects on Soil Quality: Porosity, Earthworms, Aggregates and Soil Organic Carbon Fractions

Cited by 50 publications

References 66 publications

Impact of 47 Years of No Tillage and Stubble Retention on Soil Aggregation and Carbon Distribution in a Vertisol

Impact of 47 Years of No Tillage and Stubble Retention on Soil Aggregation and Carbon Distribution in a Vertisol

Impacts of wise grazing on physicochemical and biological features of soil in a sandy grassland on the Tibetan Plateau

Influence of natural regeneration on fractal features of residue microaggregates in bauxite residue disposal areas

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