Soil pH Buffering Capacity and Nitrogen Availability Following Compost Application in a Tropical Acid Soil

Tropical acid soils are highly weathered as they exist under tropical environment with high rainfall and temperature throughout the year, which affects nitrogen availability. Soil organic nitrogen is important in estimating soil nitrogen availability. The combined use of urea and compost in this study was carried out to decrease sole dependence on urea, buffer soil acidification, and reduce nitrogen losses through leaching. Thus, soil buffering capacity, incubation, and organic nitrogen fractionation studies were conducted to determine soil buffering capacity, availability of total nitrogen, organic fractions nitrogen, and inorganic nitrogen in soil after 90 days of incubation following compost. Soil pH, buffering capacity, total nitrogen, organic nitrogen fractions, exchangeable ammonium, and available nitrate were higher in all treatments with compost and combined use of urea and compost. Total hydrolyzable nitrogen, ammonium-nitrogen, (ammonium + amino sugar)-nitrogen, amino sugar-nitrogen, and amino acid-nitrogen were higher in soils with urea and compost suggesting that decomposition of soil organic fractions nitrogen into inorganic nitrogen (ammonium and available nitrate was affected by the addition of urea and compost. Urea can be amended with compost to regulate availability nitrogen in soil for crop use.     

DMPP对菜地土壤氮素淋失的影响研究

采用小粉土和青紫泥原状土柱种植青菜，研究了尿素添加DMPP（3．4-二甲基吡啶磷酸盐）硝化抑制剂对土壤氮素淋失的影响。结果表明．在60天内，与常规尿素相比，小粉土和青紫泥DMPP处理硝态氮的累积淋失量分别降低66．8％和69．4％，氨氮淋失量提高9．7％和6．7％，无机氮降低59．1％和63．0％；蔬菜收获后，土壤0～15cm层无机氮增高34．1％和28．2％，土壤中氮素纵向迁移降低。可见，DMPP抑制剂施入土壤具有显著的氨氧化抑制作用，延缓蔬菜地土壤氨氮向硝态氮的转化，减轻氮素向水体迁移的风险。使用硝化抑制剂DMPP，由于土壤对氨氮的强吸附特性．迁移总量低，不会对地下水造成污染的风险。     

热带亚热带酸性土壤硝化作用与氮淋溶特征

通过室内好气培养和土柱模拟淋洗培养试验,研究了氨基氮肥加入对热带亚热带4种不同性质和利用方式酸性土壤硝化、氮及盐基离子淋溶、土壤及淋出液酸化的影响。4种土壤分别为采自花岗岩发育的海南林地砖红壤(HR)、玄武岩发育的云南林地砖红壤(YR)、第四纪红黏土发育的江西旱地红壤(RU)和第四纪下蜀黄土发育的江苏旱地黄棕壤(YU)。结果表明:4种土壤硝化作用大小表现为YURUYRHR。HR主要以可溶性有机氮(DON)和NH_4~+-N形态淋失,YU土壤的氮淋溶形态以NO_3~–-N为主,YR和RU土壤的氮淋溶形态NO_3~–-N、NH_4~+-N和DON兼而有之。盐基离子总淋失量与NO_3~–-N淋失量显著正相关,但各盐基离子淋失由于离子本性和土壤性质差异并不完全一致。Ca~(2+)在缓冲外源NH_4~+-N硝化致酸和平衡NO_3~–-N淋失所带负电荷过程中起重要作用。在阳离子交换量小、盐基饱和度低的土壤(如RU土壤),外源NH_4~+-N的硝化和淋失不仅导致盐基离子淋失,而且引发NH_4~+-N、甚至是H~+淋失。综上,热带亚热带地区土壤上外源氮输入的增加可能会在更短的时间内导致氮素向系统外的流失,引发环境问题。     

Potassium Buffering Capacity of Sandy Soils from Thua Thien Hue Province,Central Vietnam,as Related to Soil Properties

Most agricultural production in central Vietnam relies on sandy soils distributed along the sea coast. Because of their low exchangeable potassium (K) and low cation exchange capacity (CEC), careful adjustment of K fertilization on these soils is needed to minimize K leaching. Quantity/intensity curves were established on 24 sandy soils from Thua Thien Hue Province from which K buffering capacity (PBC) was calculated and compared with basic soil properties. Potassium buffering capacity was found to correlate best with soil texture and only a little with humus content, although these two characteristics are responsible for CEC. A simple equation based on sand content, which is easier to determine than clay content, is proposed to calculate optimum exchangeable K level as a function of target K level in soil solution.     

间歇淋洗干湿交替条件下氮肥的氮行为研究

采用土柱淋洗试验方法 ,对包膜尿素、尿素和硝酸铵在石碴土和粘壤质石灰性土壤中氮的行为进行了评价。结果表明 ,包膜尿素、尿素和硝酸铵的回收总氮量 (包括淋洗溶液中各种形态氮 ,土壤吸附的肥料氮和残余的肥料氮 )分别为施入总氮量的 90.5%、74.2 %、93.5%和91.5%、58.5%、91.1%。在 1750mL淋洗溶液中NO3--N分别占淋洗溶液中总氮量的 90%以上。在 7次淋洗干湿交替之后 ,土壤吸附的肥料氮 (NH4+-N和NO3--N)均不超过施氮总量的2.1% ;包膜尿素有62.7%和70.8%的氮以颗粒肥料存在于土壤中。 3种氮肥中包膜尿素较尿素和硝酸铵在土壤中释放持续的时间显著延长 ,尿素的氨挥发损失较高 ,硝酸铵淋失较快     

Soil properties affecting volatilization of ammonia from soils treated with urea

Abstract

The effects of various soil properties on ammonia (NH₃) volatilization from soils treated with urea were studied by measuring the NH₃ evolved when 20 soils selected to obtain a wide range in properties were incubated at ‐0.034 mPa soil moisture potential and 30°C for 10 days after treatment with urea. The nitrogen (N) volatilized as NH₃ from these soils represented from 0 to 65% of the urea‐N applied and averaged 14%. Simple correlation analyses showed that loss of NH₃ was negatively correlated (P<0.1%) with cation‐exchange capacity, silt content, and clay content and was positively correlated (P <0.1%) with sand content. Loss of NH₃ was also negatively correlated with total nitrogen content (P<1.0%), organic carbon content (P<1.0%), hydrogen ion buffering capacity (P<5.0%), and exchangeable acidity (P<5.0%), and was positively correlated with calcium carbonate equivalent (P <1.0%) and with soil pH after incubation with urea (P<1.0%), but was not significantly correlated with initial soil pH or soil urease activity. Multiple linear regression analyses indicated that the amount of urea N volatilized as NH₃ from the 20 soils studied increased with increase in sand content and decreased with increase in cation‐exchange capacity. They also indicated that soil texture and cation‐exchange capacity are better indicators of potential loss of urea N as NH₃ from soils fertilized with urea than are hydrogen ion buffering capacity or initial soil pH.     

稻田土壤供氮能力的解析研究

以太湖地区三种类型水稻土为对象进行的研究表明:(1)风干土淹水培养后,固定态铵平均增加17ppm,相当于交换性铵增量的28%。似应将培养后固定态铵的增量与交换性铵增量之和计为土壤氮素的矿化量。(2)田间微区试验中,耕层以下土壤所供应的氮量占稻田土壤供氮量的16—49%,平均30%。(3)根据所得结果,讨论了用培养法预测稻田土壤供氮量中存在的问题。     

Effects of nitrification inhibitors on transformations of urea nitrogen in soils

The effects of three patented nitrification inhibitors on transformations of urea N in soils were studied by determining the effects of these compounds (10 μg/g of soil) on urea hydrolysis, ammonia volatilization. and production of ammonium, nitrite, and nitrate in soils incubated under aerobic conditions (30°C, 60% WHC) after treatment with urea (400 μg of urea N/g of soil). The inhibitors used (N-Serve, ATC, and CL-1580) had little, if any, effect on urea hydrolysis, but they retarded nitrification of the ammonium formed by urea hydrolysis and increased gaseous loss of urea N as ammonia. They also decreased the amount of (urea + exchangeable ammonium + nitrite + nitrate) — N found in urea-treated soils after various times.Two of the soils used accumulated substantial amounts of nitrite(> 160 μg of nitrite N/g of soil) when incubated under aerobic conditions after treatment with urea. Addition of nitrification inhibitors to these soils eliminated or substantially reduced nitrite accumulation and greatly retarded nitrate formation, but had little, if any, effect on the recovery of urea N as (urea + exchangeable ammonium + nitrite + nitrate + ammonia) — N after various times. This finding and other observations reported indicate that the “nitrogen deficits” observed in studies of urea N transformations in soils may not largely be due to gaseous loss of urea N through chemodenitrification and are at least partly due to volatilization and fixation of the ammonium formed by urea hydrolysis in soils. The work reported also indicates that N-Serve and other nitrification inhibitors may prove useful for reduction of the nitrite toxicity problems associated with the use of urea as a fertilizer but that application of such inhibitors in conjunction with fertilizer urea, when surface applied, may promote gaseous loss of urea N as ammonia.     

Effects of nitrogen fertilizer on the acidification of two typical acid soils in South China

Purpose

A laboratory incubation under constant temperature and humidity was conducted to estimate the impacts of nitrogen (N) fertilizers on the acidification of two acid soils (Plinthudult and Paleudalfs) in south China.

Materials and methods

The experiment had three treatments, i.e., control (CK), addition of urea (U), and addition of ammonium sulfate (AS). We measured soil pH, nitrate (NO₃ ^?), ammonium (NH₄ ⁺), exchangeable hydrogen ion (H⁺), and aluminum ion (Al³⁺) concentrations at various intervals during the 90 days of incubation. Soil buffering capacity (pHBC) was also measured at the end of the experiment.

Results and discussion

The application of N fertilizers resulted in soil acidification. The U treatment caused greater acidification of the Plinthudult soil than the AS treatment, while there were no differences between U and AS treatments on the acidification of the Paleudalfs. At the end of the trial, the pHBC of Plinthudult in AS treatment was greater than that in CK and U treatments, which may be due to the buffering system of NH₄ ⁺ and NH₄OH. However, the pHBC of Paleudalfs was unchanged between treatments. The dynamics of exchangeable H⁺ and Al³⁺ corresponded to that of soil pH. Correlation analysis showed that both soil exchangeable H⁺ and soil exchangeable Al³⁺ were significantly related to soil pH.

Conclusions

Application of urea and ammonium sulfate caused acidification in both soils and increased soil exchangeable Al³⁺ and H⁺ concentrations in the Paleudalfs. The application of urea increased exchangeable Al³⁺, and ammonium sulfate increased pHBC in the Plinthudult.     

The retention of nitrate in acid soils from the tropics

Abstract. In most soils of temperate regions nitrate is not held on soil surfaces and moves freely in solution. But when soils carry positive charges, nitrate is held as an exchangeable anion. As a result, leaching of nitrate is delayed relative to the movement of water. The delay can be predicted provided the anion exchange capacity (AEC) can be measured and the concentration of counter-anions is known. For soils with variable charge, the AEC varies with both pH and ionic strength, and the effective AEC should be determined under conditions similar to those in soil solution. A simple leaching method is described which satisfies this requirement. Delays in the leaching of nitrate measured in columns of repacked soil were strongly related to the AEC.     

氮肥去向的研究--Ⅰ.稻田土壤中氮肥的去向

氮肥施入土壤后的去向,直接关系到作物增产和环境保护,是农业和环境科学研究中的基本资料。对氮肥去向的研究,以在田间条件下进行的意义比较大。因此,1978-1980年,我们在华东地区三种不同土壤上,采用田间微区¹⁵N示踪的方法,分别测定了施用于水稻和小麦的几种常用氮肥的去向,并以尿素为重点,研究了施肥方法、施肥时期、土壤水分状况以及硝化抑制剂等对氮肥去向的影响。所得结果将分别整理。本文是稻田试验方面的初步总结。     

磷酸二氢钙和氯化钾对氯化铵处理黄泥土水溶性铵态氮和硝态氮的影响

氮磷钾是农业生产中大量施用并且经常共同施用的肥料,三者在土壤中的相互作用对养分的迁移转化、吸收和代谢有着深远影响.本文模拟生产中氮磷钾肥料同施,研究了田间持水量条件下磷酸二氢钙、氯化钾对氯化铵处理土壤水溶性铵态氮和硝态氮的影响.结果表明,铵态氮施入土壤后,随着培养时间的延长,土壤中水溶性铵态氮含量下降,硝态氮含量升高,两者之间存在着显著相关性.磷酸二氢钙延缓了铵态氮向其他形态氮的转变,使培养中期土壤水溶性铵态氮显著高于氯化铵处理土壤,并对培养中后期硝态氮的增加有抑制作用.氯化钾增加了培养前中期氯化铵处理土壤铵态含量,但显著抑制了氯化铵处理土壤培养后期硝态氮的含量.因此,农业生产中氯化铵和氯化钾共施,氯化铵和磷酸二氢钙共施,氯化铵、氯化钾和磷酸二氢钙共施,对提高氮肥利用率,降低硝态氮淋失损失均有重要作用.     

Leaching and Recovering of Nitrogen Following N Fertilizers Application to the Soil in a Laboratory Study

Following soil fertilization, nitrogen (N) is partially lost. The objective of this study was to evaluate leaching and recovery of N after addition of fertilizers to the soil. Two experiments were conducted in leaching columns submitted to frequent water percolations. In the leaching experiment, urea, ammonium nitrate, and six coated N fertilizers were utilized; in the N recovery experiment, treatments consisted of urea, potassium nitrate, ammonium sulfate, and ammonium nitrate, combined or not with percolation. Percolations were performed weekly with quantification of ammonium and nitrate in the percolated. The recovered N was obtained by summing total N percolated with N in the soil. Nitrate leaching was highest from amide-N fertilizers, with no differences between them showing that coating urea was not efficient to decrease N leaching. Nitric fertilizers had the lowest recovery of N, probably due to the occurrence of denitrification caused by the frequent water percolation.     

几种新型氮肥对叶菜硝酸盐累积和土壤硝态氮淋洗的影响

应用土柱模拟试验的方法,研究了在高肥力菜田土壤条件下,施用几种新型氮肥对两茬叶菜硝酸盐积累和土壤硝态氮淋洗的影响。结果表明,在高肥力菜田土壤上,施用几种新型氮肥都未能明显提高第一茬油菜的生物量,硫硝铵（A SN）却降低了生物量,而第二茬菠菜不施肥处理生物量下降。尿素＋硝化抑制剂DM PP（En tec46）、尿素＋硝化抑制剂DCD（U＋DCD）和有机无机复混肥（OIF）3种氮肥显著降低了油菜硝酸盐含量。尿素＋玉米秸秆（U＋M S）和硫硝铵＋硝化抑制剂DM PP（En tec26）减少了土壤NO3^--N的向下淋洗,而尿素＋保水剂（U＋SAP）增加土壤NO3^--N的向下淋洗。     

外源生物质炭对土壤中铵态氮素滞留效应的影响

以生物质炭和黄棕壤为研究材料,通过阳离子交换量测定、铵态氮等温吸附实验以及模拟土柱淋溶,研究生物质炭对土壤铵态氮素滞留效应的影响。发现生物质炭以1%、3%和5%添加后,土壤CEC值分别增加9.4%、14.7%和19.7%,铵态氮素淋失量分别减少22%、39%和47%,氮素滞留量分别增加15%、5%和14%;同时影响氮素在土层中的分布,其中加生物质炭土壤的氮素集中在土柱上部5～7cm处,而不加生物质炭土壤集中在中部偏下9～11cm处。结果表明,生物质炭能够提高土壤对铵态氮素的吸附能力,显著降低土壤铵态氮素养分的淋失。     

Studies on mineralization and immobilization of nitrogen in soil

Mineralization and immobilization processes were studied in a soil treated with ammonium sulphate, calcium ammonium nitrate, urea, urea ammonium phosphate or suphala along with unhumified dung. The conversion of fertilizer nitrogen into non-KCI extractable fractions occurred within two weeks and was relatively rapid in the samples treated with urea and urea ammonium phosphate. The mineral nitrogen content during incubation studies was highest in calcium ammonium nitrate treated soils. Amino acid nitrogen appeared to be the main fraction involved in the immobilization and mineralization of nitrogen in soil. Dung behaved as an efficient nitrification inhibitor and slowed the release of nitrogen from fertilizers.     

尿素添加硝化抑制剂DMPP对稻田土壤不同形态矿质态氮的影响

采用小粉土和青紫泥两种典型土壤种植水稻,研究尿素添加新型硝化抑制剂3,4-二甲基吡唑磷酸盐（DMPP）对土壤氮素转化及水稻生物学效应的影响。结果表明,水稻田施用含DMPP硝化抑制剂的尿素,与常规尿素处理相比,小粉土和青紫泥土壤中铵态氮浓度分别增加94.6%-97.9%和55.4%-65.1%,硝态氮浓度下降49.0%-81.3%和33.9%-83.7%,亚硝态氮浓度下降46.9%-90.9%和53.7%-90.2%。添加DMPP抑制剂于尿素,小粉土和青紫泥处理水稻的产量增加24.9%和14.2%,生物量增加20.6%和14.4%,吸氮量增加15.3%和22.5%。DMPP抑制剂可有效保持土壤高铵态氮浓度、低硝态氮与亚硝态氮浓度,促进水稻对氮素的吸收利用,提高氮素利用率。     

Differential soil acidification caused by parent materials and land-use changes in the Pearl River Delta region

Soil acidification occurs widely across the world, which has been partly attributed to land-use change. However, measureable effect of land-use change as well as parent materials on soil acidification remains poorly understood. Here, a typical area with intensive land-use change in the Pearl River Delta of China was chosen for this study. Topsoil (0–20 cm) and subsoil (20–40 cm) samples (n = 169) under different land uses (paddy fields, vegetable lands and orchards) and parent materials (granite and alluvial sediment) were collected in 2020. Soil pH, exchangeable base cations, exchangeable acidity and pH buffering capacity were measured to evaluate the status of soil acidification. The change of soil pH over the last 15 years was evaluated via comparing with historical data (n = 329) in 2005. The results showed a higher exchangeable acidity and lower pH buffering capacity and exchangeable base cations of soils derived from granite compared with soils derived from alluvial sediment in 2020. In the last 15 years, significant soil acidification under different parent materials was observed under vegetable lands and orchards but not paddy fields. Faster pH decline was found under land-use change from paddy fields compared with the unchanged vegetable lands or orchards. Furthermore, stronger acidification under the same land-use change was observed for soils derived from granite compared with soils derived from alluvial sediment. These results indicate that land-use change induced soil acidification is dependent on parent materials. This study implies that cropping management such as suitable rotation operation may slow soil acidification, and measures including straw returning may ameliorate acidified soils.     

灌溉施用氮肥后氮素在土壤中的转化及淋失状况: 土柱模拟研究

A soil column method was used to compare the effect of drip fertigation (the application of fertilizer through drip irrigation systems, DFI) on the leaching loss and transformation of urea-N in soil with that of surface fertilization combined with flood irrigation (SFI), and to study the leaching loss and transformation of three kinds of nitrogen fertilizers (nitrate fertilizer, ammonium fertilizer, and urea fertilizer) in two contrasting soils after the fertigation. In comparison to SFI, DFI decreased leaching loss of urea-N from the soil and increased the mineral N (NH₄⁺-N + NO₃^--N) in the soil. The N leached from a clay loam soil ranged from 5.7% to 9.6% of the total N added as fertilizer, whereas for a sandy loam soil they ranged between 16.2% and 30.4%. Leaching losses of mineral N were higher when nitrate fertilizer was used compared to urea or ammonium fertilizer. Compared to the control (without urea addition), on the first day when soils were fertigated with urea, there were increases in NH₄⁺-N in the soils. This confirmed the rapid hydrolysis of urea in soil during fertigation. NH₄⁺-N in soils reached a peak about 5 days after fertigation, and due to nitrification it began to decrease at day 10. After applying NH₄⁺-N fertilizer and urea and during the incubation period, the mineral nitrogen in the soil decreased. This may be related to the occurrence of NH₄⁺-N fixation or volatilization in the soil during the fertigation process.     

不同种类氮肥对紫色土表面电化学性质的影响

以紫色土为研究对象,采用土柱淋溶方法,研究了不同种类氮肥对紫色土表面电化学性质的影响。结果表明:氮肥处理的紫色土表面电荷量较原土大,增加量在0.05～0.7 cmol kg-1;在低氮水平(100、200 mg kg-1)下,紫色土表面电荷量为尿素硫铵硝铵;而在高氮水平(300、400 mg kg-1)下,表面电荷量为硫铵尿素硝铵。与原土相比,施肥处理的紫色土比表面积有所增加,其中施用100 mg kg-1尿素的增加量最大,较原土增加了78.04%,且尿素处理对土壤比表面积的影响显著高于其余两种氮肥处理;而400 mg kg-1硫铵处理的增加量最少,只增加了0.06%。在同一个施氮水平下,硫铵处理的土壤表面电荷密度和电场强度最大,而尿素处理的最小;低氮施肥处理对电荷密度和电场强度的影响明显高于高氮施肥处理。可见,不同氮肥种类和施氮水平由于电解质体系类型和浓度的差异,引起土壤pH变化,最终对土壤电化学性质产生影响,从而改变土壤养分的保蓄性和有效性。在本试验条件下,非电解质体系在低浓度下能显著影响紫色土表面电化学性质,而强电解质在高浓度下影响效果较为明显。