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A chronosequence study of purple paddy soils with respect to improving ammonium and potassium fertilization management

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Purpose

Purple paddy soils cover about 66% of the paddy soils in Sichuan Basin. Complex interactions made the effects of potassium fertilizer application on NH4+ adsorption more complicated and the behavior of NH4+ and K+ interaction in purple paddy soils has rarely been evaluated. We hypothesize that correct management of these soils can enhance the efficiency of ammonium and potassium fertilizers. In order to determine correct management methods, it is important to understand the interaction of main nutrient cations NH4+ and K+ and maturation hydroponics in purple paddy soils with different paddy cultivation times.

Materials and methods

A purple paddy soil chronosequence with cultivation history from 0 to 300 years was studied to understand the respective effects of SOM and mineralogy on NH4+ and K+ sorption behavior by adsorption experiments using samples both before and after H2O2 oxidation.

Results and discussion

The study shows that maturation hydroponics influenced NH4+ and K+ adsorption mainly through changing clay mineralogy and enhancing SOM accumulation. SOM and smectite play positive effects for NH4+ adsorption. The K+ adsorption, however, is mainly affected by the smectite changes. The adsorption percentages are obviously higher at 25–50 mg L−1 for each NH4+ solution and higher at 50–100 mg L−1 for each K+ solution. When ammonium and potassium were applied together, NH4+ and K+ adsorption are mutually weakened. In addition, the percentage of K+ adsorption increased from 49.7–57.7% for the 100 mg L−1 K+ solution to 50.9–58.5% for the 200 mg L−1 K+ solution at 200 mg L−1 of added NH4+.

Conclusions

SOM enrichments could be a positive way to improve the ammonium fertilizer utilization efficiency in purple paddy soils. Potassium may be more vulnerable to loss at low K+ concentrations given that ammonium and potassium fertilizers were applied together and it should be separately applied to enhance the utilization efficiency of applied fertilizer.

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Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful to Dr. David Rossiter, University of Twente, the Netherlands, for his comments and linguistic corrections.

Funding

This research was supported by the Sichuan Science and Technology Program (2018JY0527), Key Achievement Conversion Projects in Neijiang Normal University (17CZ03), Bingwei Excellent Tallents Program of Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2017RC203), and Science and Technology Cooperation Project of Guizhou Province (Qian Ke He LH [2015]7051).

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  1. Laboratory of Simulation on Soil Process, College of Geography and Resources Science, Neijiang Normal University, Neijiang, 641112, Sichuan, China

    Guang-Zhong Han & Fan Yang

  2. Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China

    Lai-Ming Huang

  3. College of Resources and Environment, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Lai-Ming Huang & Gan-Lin Zhang

  4. State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, China

    Gan-Lin Zhang

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Han, GZ., Huang, LM., Zhang, GL. et al. A chronosequence study of purple paddy soils with respect to improving ammonium and potassium fertilization management. J Soils Sediments 20, 2031–2042 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11368-019-02542-w

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