[Mineralization of soil organic carbon and its relationship with soil enzyme activities in apple orchard in Weibei]

Huan Jing Ke Xue. 2014 Jul;35(7):2777-84.
[Article in Chinese]

Abstract

A total of 36 kinds of soil samples were collected from apple orchards under three kinds of management model, including clear tillage model, intercropping white clover model and intercropping small crown flower model, the mineralization of soil organic carbon and four kinds of soil enzymes activities were determined, and the relationship between the two parameters was also analyzed. The results showed that the soil organic carbon mineralization of all the three treatments was almost the same. The daily SOC mineralization rate first increased and then decreased, and finally tended to be stable. After 31 days incubation experiment, the maximum accumulative amount of SOC mineralization occurred in white clover treatment with 590 mg x kg(-1), followed by small crown flower treatment with 541 mg x kg(-1), and the minimum value was 367 mg x kg(-1) in the control treatment, and the accumulative amount of SOC mineralization decreased with increasing soil depth. Discovered by the first-order kinetics, the fitting parameter Cp value ranged from 0.252 to 2.74 g x kg(-1) and k value ranged from 0.019 to 0.051 d(-1), and the two grass treatments both showed significant difference in Cp value from the control treatment, and the soil invertase and cellulose activities showed obvious relationship with soil organic carbon mineralization.

MeSH terms

  • Agriculture / methods*
  • Carbon / analysis*
  • Cellulose / chemistry
  • China
  • Malus*
  • Medicago / growth & development
  • Models, Theoretical
  • Soil / chemistry*
  • beta-Fructofuranosidase / metabolism

Substances

  • Soil
  • Carbon
  • Cellulose
  • beta-Fructofuranosidase