Physical factors influencing decomposition of organic materials in soil aggregates

Glucose or starch labelled with ¹⁴C was mixed thoroughly into slurried soils. Aggregates of different sizes were obtained from the soils as they dried. The labelled substrates were considered to be distributed in both micro- and macropores in the aggregates. Control samples (labelled substrates in macropores only) were prepared by adding the labelled carbohydrates after the formation of the aggregates. The various samples were sterilized by γ-irradiation and stored at ?15°C.Samples were wetted to about ?20kPa, inoculated with soil organisms, and incubated for 4 weeks at 28°C in closed systems, which enabled regular measurement of ¹⁴CO₂ released.Based on the ¹⁴CO₂ released, it was concluded that starch was protected from microbial attack when present in micropores in aggregates made from fine sandy loam.After incubation samples were dried and rewetted. The flush of ¹⁴CO₂ released was twice as big for samples containing labelled starch compared with glucose, showing that disruption of aggregates, containing residual starch, and rearrangements of soil components are as important as chemical and biological factors in causing the flush of CO₂ resulting from wetting a soil. Mechanical disruption of the aggregates resulted in a similar flush of ¹⁴CO₂.     

长期施用不同有机物料对土壤团聚体特征的影响

农业有机物料是重要的资源,为研究施用不同有机物料对土壤水稳性团聚体分布、稳定性及有机碳的影响,采用对照(CK)、玉米秸秆(Str)、堆肥(C)、牛粪(PM)、沼渣(BgR)、生物炭(BC)6种处理,通过田间7年定位试验,利用湿筛法得到不同粒级的土壤水稳性团聚体,测定土壤有机碳含量,计算了水稳性团聚体平均质量直径(MWD)、几何平均直径(GMD)值、分形维数(D)和土壤不稳定团粒指数(E_(LT))。结果表明:与对照相比,5种不同有机物料处理下0~15 cm土层水稳性大团聚体(0.25 mm)含量、平均质量直径(MWD)、几何平均直径(GMD)、土壤有机碳含量显著增加(P0.05),分形维数(D)、土壤不稳定团粒指数(E_(LT))显著减小(P0.05),土壤团聚体结构稳定性明显得到增强。土壤有机碳与水稳性大团聚体(0.25mm)含量间呈现出极显著正相关关系(P0.001)。生物炭和秸秆处理的团聚体稳定性变化最为明显,土壤结构改善效果最好,生物炭、沼渣处理最有利于促进土壤有机碳的累积。各处理15~30 cm土层,土壤团聚体及有机碳含量差异不显著(P0.05)。采取施用不同有机物料的方式对耕地进行保育,显著提高了耕作层水稳性大团聚体含量和有机碳含量,增强了团聚体结构稳定性,改善了土壤结构和肥力状况。     

耐盐碱细菌与有机物料对盐碱土团聚体形成的影响

从滨海盐碱土中分离筛选到分解秸秆、产胞外聚合物的耐盐碱细菌,通过土柱和盆栽试验研究其与有机物料相互作用对盐碱土团聚体形成以及植物生长的影响.结果表明,盐碱土中接种既分解秸秆又产胞外聚合物的耐盐碱细菌(菌株 M6),配施未腐熟秸秆,直接在盐碱土中腐熟分解,团聚体形成效果最好,大团聚体含量增加 60% 以上;施加玉米秸秆与施腐熟有机肥相比,前者更有利于盐碱土大团聚体的形成;盐碱土中接种既分解秸秆又产胞外聚合物细菌对团聚体形成的促进作用优于单功能分解秸秆细菌(菌株 J2)或者分泌胞外聚合物细菌(菌株 DF-2);菌株 M6 对盐碱环境下玉米的出苗、生长存活及干物质的积累有促进作用.     

有机物料及无机氮对耕地黑土团聚体水稳性的影响

用室内模拟试验研究了有机C、无机N添加对耕地黑土不同粒级团聚体水稳性的影响。结果表明 ,在不添加任何物料的湿培养条件下 ,随团聚体粒径增大抵抗浸水分散能力减弱 ;添加葡萄糖和玉米根干粉对 1mm水稳团聚体有良好保护作用 ,但不能保护小粒径的团聚体。单纯添加无机N会引起耕地黑土团聚体水稳性下降。     

不同母质发育的柑橘园土壤团聚体及有机碳分布特征

作为土壤结构的基本单元和土壤肥力的组成部分,土壤团聚体对其物理、化学和生物学特性均具有重要影响。选取湖南省永兴县5种典型母质发育的柑橘园土壤,采用湿筛法研究不同成土母质的柑橘园土壤团聚体结构变化和有机碳分配规律。结果表明:(1)研究区不同母质发育土壤以>0.25 mm粒径团聚体为主,占85.94%～95.89%,其中板页岩风化物发育的黄泥土中大团聚体含量最高;(2)不同母质柑橘园土壤团聚体的水稳性大小为板页岩风化物(黄泥土)>第四纪红色粘土(红黄泥)>石灰岩风化物(灰红土)>砂砾岩风化物(红砂土)>河流沉积物(河砂泥);(3)不同母质柑橘园土壤团聚体有机碳含量、团聚体有机碳储量和团聚体对土壤有机碳的贡献率均随着团聚体粒径的减小而减少;(4)平均重量直径(MWD)、几何平均直径(GMD)、分形维数(D)和土壤可蚀性(K)与>2 mm团聚体间的相关系数最大,表明>2 mm团聚体含量是影响土壤团聚体稳定性的主要因子;(5)>2 mm团聚体有机碳贡献率与土壤团聚体MWD和GMD呈显著正相关,与土壤K值呈显著负相关,与土壤D值呈显著负相关。总体而言,目前南方柑橘果园施肥管理应注重增施有机肥,提高土壤结构的稳定性,从而降低水土流失的风险。     

Dynamics and stratification of bacteria and fungi in the organic layers of a scots pine forest soil

The abundance and micro-stratification of bacteria and fungi inhabiting the organic layers of a Scots pine forest (Pinus sylvestris L.) were investigated. An experiment using stratified litterbags, containing organic material of four degradation stages (fresh litter, litter, fragmented litter and humus) was performed over a period of 2.5 years. Dynamics and stratification of fluorescent stained bacteria and fungi, ratios between bacterial and fungal biomass, and relationships with moisture and temperature are described. Average bacterial counts in litter and fragmented litter were similar, i.e., approximately 5×10⁹ bacteriag^–1 (dry weight) organic matter, and significantly exceeded those in humus. The mean bacterial biomass ranged from 0.338 to 0.252mg carbon (C) g^–1 (dry weight) organic matter. Lengths of mycelia were significantly below the usually recorded amounts for comparable temperate coniferous forests. The highest average hyphal length, 53mg^–1 (dry weight) organic matter, was recorded in litter and decreased significantly with depth. The corresponding mean fungal biomass ranged from 0.050 to 0.009mg Cg^–1 (dry weight). The abundance of bacteria and fungi was influenced by water content, that of fungi also by temperature. A litterbag series with freshly fallen litter of standard quality, renewed bimonthly, revealed a clear seasonal pattern with microbial biomass peaks in winter. The mean hyphal length was 104mg^–1 (dry weight) and mean number of bacteria, 2.40×10⁹ bacteria g^–1 (dry weight). Comparable bacterial and fungal biomass C were found in the freshly fallen litter [0.154 and 0.132mgCg^–1 (dry weight) organic material, respectively]. The ratio of bacterial-to-fungal biomass C increased from 1.2 in fresh litter to 28.0 in humus. The results indicate the existence of an environmental stress factor affecting the abundance of fungi in the second phase of decomposition. High atmospheric nitrogen deposition is discussed as a prime factor to explain low fungal biomass and the relatively short lengths of fungal hyphae in some of the forest soil layers under study. Received: 26 June 1997     

Stability of soil aggregates in relation to organic constituents and soil water content

The effects of soil organic matter content, soil water content and duration of wet-sieving on aggregate stability of soils with contrasting cropping histories were investigated. Long-term pasture samples had a greater aggregate stability than long-term arable samples. However, air-drying aggregates before wet-sieving increased the aggregate stability of long-term pasture samples, but decreased that of long-term arable samples. With increasing duration of wet-sieving, the proportion of water-stable aggregates declined until a near-constant value was reached for each sample. Thus, within a sample there are aggregates possessing a wide range of stabilities; with increasing time under arable cropping there is an increase in the proportion of unstable aggregates present, and the measured aggregate stability, therefore, declines. Unstable aggregates (defined as those dispersed after wet-sieving for 1 min) generally had lower organic matter content than stable ones (those still intact after sieving for 15 min). The aggregate stability of a regrassed site (13 years of arable plus 2 years of pasture) was markedly higher than that of a corresponding site from 15 years of arable cropping. Nonetheless, levels of organic matter (organic C, total N and hydrolysable carbohydrate) were almost identical at the two sites. However, aggregates from the regrassed site did have a higher biomass C and water-extractable carbohydrate content than those from the 15-year arable site. For a group of soils with varying cropping histories, aggregate stability was significantly more closely correlated with hot water-extractable carbohydrate content than with organic C or hydrolysable carbohydrate content. It is suggested that the hot water-extractable carbohydrate fraction may represent a pool of carbohydrate involved in the formation of stable aggregates.     

Sources and composition of soil organic matter fractions between and within soil aggregates

It is generally accepted that particulate organic matter derives from plants. In contrast, the enriched labile fraction is thought by many to derive from microbes, especially fungi. However, no detailed chemical characterization of these fractions has been done. In this study, we wanted to assess the sources (plants or microbes; fungi or bacteria) and degree of microbial alteration of (i) three particulate organic matter fractions – namely the free light fraction (1.85 g cm^?3), the coarse (250–2000 μm) and the fine (53–250 μm) intra‐aggregate particulate organic matter fractions – and of (ii) three density fractions of fine‐silt associated carbon – namely < 2.0, 2.0–2.2 (i.e. enriched labile fraction) and > 2.2 g cm^?3– by analysing the amino sugars, by CuO oxidation analyses, and by ¹³C‐, ¹H‐ and ³¹P‐NMR analyses. Macroaggregates (250–2000 μm) were separated by wet‐sieving from a former grassland soil now under a no‐tillage arable regime. The three particulate organic matter fractions and the three density fractions were isolated from the macroaggregates by a combination of density flotation, sonication and sieving techniques. Proton NMR spectroscopy on alkaline extracts showed that the enriched labile fraction is not of microbial origin but is strongly degraded plant material that is enriched in aliphatic moieties partly bound to aromatics. In addition, the enriched labile fraction had a glucosamine content less than the whole soil, indicating that it is not enriched in carbon derived from fungi. Decreasing yields of phenolic CuO oxidation products and increasing side‐chain oxidation in the order coarse intra‐aggregate particulate organic matter < fine inter‐aggregate particulate organic matter < fine‐silt fractions indicate progressive alteration of lignin as particle size decreases. The light fraction was more decomposed than the coarse inter‐aggregate particulate organic matter, as indicated by (i) its larger ratio of acid‐to‐aldehyde of the vanillyl units released by CuO oxidation, (ii) the smaller contribution of H in carbohydrates to total extractable H as estimated by ¹H‐NMR spectroscopy, and (iii) a larger contribution of monoester P to total extractable P in the ³¹P‐NMR spectra. In conclusion, the four fractions are derived predominantly from plants, but microbial alteration increased as follows: coarse inter‐aggregate particulate organic matter < light fraction ≈ fine inter‐aggregate particulate organic matter < enriched labile fraction.     

不同利用方式旱地红壤水稳性团聚体及其碳、氮、磷分布特征

针对江西红壤地区不同利用方式引起的土壤质量和肥力的相应变化,研究了不同肥力水平、不同利用方式下红壤旱地水稳性团聚体含量及其养分分布规律。研究表明,荒地土壤中>5 mm水稳性团聚体含量显著高于其他利用方式,花生地和果园土壤则以0.25～0.053 mm的水稳性团聚体为主。各肥力水平下,菜地土壤中除>5 mm水稳性团聚体外,各粒级团聚体中有机碳、全氮和全磷含量均显著高于花生地、果园和荒地土壤。说明菜地土壤长期大量施肥,导致土壤碳、氮、磷养分含量均相对丰富。不同利用方式旱地红壤中,有机碳、全氮主要分布在>5 mm、5～2 mm和2～1 mm的较大粒径水稳性团聚体中。说明随着团聚体粒径增大,其有机碳含量增加,土壤全氮的消长趋势和有机碳一致。土壤全磷较均匀地分布在水稳性团聚体中,如高肥力菜地和荒地土壤各粒级团聚体中全磷含量间均无显著性差异。各利用方式旱地红壤中2～1 mm和1～0.5 mm的水稳性团聚体含量与土壤有机碳、全氮和全磷含量间均达到了极显著正相关。     

Potential importance of bacteria and fungi in nitrate assimilation in soil

Soil microorganisms can use a wide range of N compounds but are thought to prefer NH₄⁺. Nevertheless, ¹⁵N isotope dilution studies have shown that microbial immobilization of NO₃⁻ can be an important process in many soils, particularly relatively undisturbed soils. Our objective was to develop a method for measuring NO₃⁻ immobilization potential so that the relative contributions of bacteria and fungi could be determined. We modified and optimized a soil slurry method that included amendments of KNO₃, glucose, and methionine sulfoximine (an inhibitor of N assimilation) in the presence of two protein synthesis inhibitors: chloramphenicol, which inhibits bacteria, or cycloheximide, which inhibits fungi. By adding ¹⁵N-labeled KNO₃, we were able to measure gross rates of NO₃⁻ production (i.e., gross nitrification) and consumption (i.e., gross NO₃⁻ immobilization). We found that bacteria, not fungi, had the greatest potential for assimilating, or immobilizing, NO₃⁻ in these soils. This is consistent with their growth habit and distribution in the heterogeneous soil matrix.     

不同施肥处理对太湖地区水稻土团聚体粒组细菌和真菌组成和多样性的影响

选择太湖地区水稻-油菜轮作的长期肥料试验的水稻田,采集原状土进行团聚体颗粒分离,提取土壤微生物DNA进行PCR-DGGE分析,通过对DGGE结果进行主成分分析和多样性指数的计算,比较秸秆还田和化肥配施与单施化肥两施肥处理对土壤团聚体中微生物群落组成和多样性的影响。结果表明：与单施化肥相比,秸秆还田显著改变了2 000 ~ 200 μm和200 ~ 20 μm两粒组中细菌和真菌的群落组成,说明较大颗粒组中微生物群落组成灵敏响应施肥措施的变化。不同团聚体粒组微生物群落多样性存在差异,细菌的多样性在2 000 ~ 200 μm与＜2 μm粒组中较高,真菌则在大粒组中表现出较高的多样性,而且由团聚体粒组本身带来的微生物多样性的变异大于施肥措施引起的变异。     

Polysaccharide synthesis by capsular microorganisms in coculture with cellulolytic fungi on straw and stabilization of soil aggregates

Summary Studies using cocultures of a cellulolytic fungus with a capsular organism show that microbial polysaccharides can be synthesized during the degradation of wheat straw. Polysaccharide accounted for up to 1.6% (w/w) of the initial straw weight but the sugar composition and viscosity indicated that a large fraction was low molecular weight material of plant origin. Nevertheless several cocultures produced sufficient microbial polysaccharide effectively to stabilize aggregates of Hamble silt loam. This correlated significantly with increased viscosity and also stabilization of Mount St. Helens volcanic ash. Four cocultures, Sordaria alcina with two strains of Enterobacter cloacae and a Pseudomonas sp. and Trichoderma harzianum with E. cloacae, were significantly more effective than a natural inoculum from straw. Inoculation of straw to produce a compost which can increase the stability of poorly structured soils is suggested.     

丛枝菌根真菌介导的土壤有机碳稳定机制研究进展

土壤有机碳(SOC)的稳定是陆地生态系统碳循环的关键过程之一,对维持土壤肥力和减少温室气体排放具有重要意义。以往认为植物残体中难降解性物质的物理保护和腐殖质影响土壤中有机碳库的稳定性。最近的研究结果表明,微生物介导的碳循环过程在土壤有机碳稳定中发挥着重要作用。丛枝菌根真菌(arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi,AMF)作为土壤中一类重要的共生微生物,参与植物光合碳向土壤的转运和分配,是陆地生态系统碳循环的重要一环,但其在土壤有机碳稳定中的作用潜力还未得到充分挖掘。基于此,本文估算了植物光合碳在AMF根外菌丝的分配量;总结了AMF介导的土壤有机碳稳定机制,主要包括AMF活体菌丝对碳的截留,分泌物及残体的分子结构抗性和土壤矿物吸附,提高植物源碳的质量和数量,菌丝分泌物及残体的激发效应和稳定土壤团聚体;探讨了影响AMF介导的稳定性有机碳形成的非生物(气候因子、土壤养分和土壤矿物)和生物因子(植物和AMF种类);提出了AMF与土壤有机碳周转互作机理进一步的研究方向,包括探究菌根植物光合碳转化为稳定性SOC的机制,解析不同生态系统中AMF对稳定性SOC的贡献及影响因素,并厘清...     

菜地土壤有机碳分级以及总量变化的动态特征研究

Fertilisers significantly affect crop production and crop biomass inputs to soil organic carbon（SOC）. However, the long-term effects of fertilisers on C associated with aggregates are not yet fully understood. Based on soil aggregate and SOC fractionation analysis, this study investigated the long-term effects of organic manure and inorganic fertilisers on the accumulation and change in SOC and its fractions, including the C concentrations of free light fraction, intra-aggregate particulate organic matter（POM） and intra-aggregate mineral-associated organic matter（MOM）. Long-term manure applications improved SOC and increased the concentrations of some C fractions. Manure also accelerated the decomposition of coarse POM（cPOM） into fine POM（fPOM） and facilitated the transformation of fPOM encrustation into intra-microaggregate POM within macroaggregates. However, the application of inorganic fertilisers was detrimental to the formation of fPOM and to the subsequent encrustation of fPOM with clay particles, thus inhibiting the formation of stable microaggregates within macroaggregates. No significant differences were observed among the inorganic fertiliser treatments in terms of C concentrations of MOM, intra-microaggregate MOM within macroaggregate（imMMOM） and intra-microaggregate MOM（imMOM）. However, the long-term application of manure resulted in large increases in C concentrations of MOM（36.35%）, imMMOM（456.31%） and imMOM（19.33%） compared with control treatment.     

Utilization of rock phosphate in alkaline soils by plants inoculated with mycorrhizal fungi and phosphate-solubilizing bacteria

Interactions between vesicular-arbuscular (VA) mycorrhizal fungi and phosphate-solubilizing bacteria were studied in a low-phosphate alkaline soil amended with 0, 0.1% and 0.5% rock phosphate. Endogone (E3 and yellow vacuolate spore types) and two bacteria able to solubilize rock phosphate in vitro and produce plant growth regulating substances were used as inocula. Lavender (Lavandula spica var. vera L.) plants with mycorrhiza plus bacteria (either E3 plus bacteria or “yellow vacuolate” plus bacteria treatments) took up more total P than plants with either Endogone or bacteria separately at each concentration of rock phosphate. Plants not inoculated with bacteria or Endogone derived no benefit from the rock phosphate.     

Water-soluble organic materials in paddy soil ecosystem

Abstract

Column experiments were conducted to analyze the effect of the temperature on the amounts of organic materials in the leachate, especially organic acids and methane, from samples of the plow layer soil amended with rice straw. Total amount of inorganic carbon in the leachate during the 30-d period of incubation in relation to the temperature was 18°C < 25°C ≤ 30°C > 37°C > 45°C. Total amount of organic carbon in the leachate was signiicantly larger under 45°C incubation than that at other temperatures.

Acetic acid was the dominant organic acid in the leachate regardless of the temperature. Butylic and propionic acids were also present in large amounts in the early and the late period of incubation of temperatures ranging between 18 and 37°C, while only acetic acid was the dominant organic acid during the 30-d period of incubation at 45°C.

The total amount of methane in leachate during the 30-d period of incubation was very small at 18°C, while very large at 25, 30, and 37°C. It decreased nearly to one half at 45°C compared with that at 30°C. Based on the values of δ¹³CH₄ in the leachate, 3 different stages were recognized in the predominant processes of methane production in the submerged paddy soil amended with rice straw: the stage when methane production from CO₂-B₂ was predominant followed by the stages of methane production from acetic acid and from CO₂-H₂ in this order. The second stage coincided with the time of decrease of the organic acid contents in the leachate. Under 45°C incubation, methane production from CO₂-H₂ was predominant throughout the 30-d period of incubation.     

Water-soluble organic materials in paddy soil ecosystem

Abstract

A column experiment was conducted to analyse the composition of organic materials in the leachate from the plow layer and their fate in the subsoil. Water-soluble organic materials in the leachate were fractionated by insoluble polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) and ion exchange resins. The content of total organic carbon (TOC) in the leachate increased by the addition of rice straw (RS) to the plow layer soil sample. The leachate contained a constant amount of PVP-adsorbed Fraction, while that of the PVP-non-adsorbed Fraction changed during the 45 day incubation period. In the fractionation using ion exchange resins, the fraction adsorbed onto the anion exchange resin was the major one.

By the connection of a subsoil column to the plow layer soil column with RS, the TOC content in the leachate decreased by percolation into the subsoil sample. In the Anjo soil sample (Yellow Soil), the decrease occurred throughout the incubation period, and about 90% of the PVP-adsorbed Fraction in the leachate decreased by percolation into the subsoil sample. In the Fukushima soil sample (Gray Lowland Soil), the TOC content decreased in the early and middle periods of incubation, while in the late period the decrease was negligible. This decrease of the TOC content by percolation into the subsoil sample was mainly due to retention in the subsoil sample of the Anjo soil, while in the Fukushima soil sample it was due to decomposition and retention. It was considered that easily decomposable organic materials like organic acids were decomposed in the early to middle periods of incubation, while in the late period the contents of such substances in the leachate from the plow layer soil sample with RS were small and the decrease of TOC was negligible.     

施用有机肥对土壤团聚体稳定性的影响

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