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Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology ›› 2021, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (1): 16-22.doi: 10.13287/j.1001-9332.202101.001

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Characteristics of phosphorus fractions and their driving factors in forest soils with different parent materials in the mid-subtropics, China

XIAO Hua-cui, LI Jing-wen, XIA Yun, YANG Liu-ming*, LIN Yan-yu, FAN Yue-xin   

  1. School of Geographical Science, Fujian Normal University/Cultivation Base of State Key Laboratory of Humid Subtropical Mountain Ecology, Fuzhou 350007, China
  • Received:2020-07-23 Accepted:2020-10-13 Online:2021-01-15 Published:2021-07-15
  • Contact: * E-mail: yanglm2007@aliyun.com
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China (31300523, 41977090), the Fujian Public Welfare Research Project (2019R10026) and the Young Teacher Education Research Project in Fujian Province (JT180072).

Abstract: With the aim to understand the influence degree and mechanism of parent material and forest type on soil phosphorus component, we analyzed soil P fractions, iron and aluminum oxides, microbial biomass, and phosphatase activity in Castanopsis carlesii and Cunninghamia lanceolata forest soils developed from two types of parent materials, sandstone and granite, in Sanming, Fujian Province. The results showed that both parent material and forest type significantly affected the contents of different P fractions. The contents of total P, labile inorganic/organic P, moderately labile inorganic/organic P, and non-labile P from sandstone-developed soils were significantly higher than those from granite-developed soils. Moreover, soil labile organic P, moderately labile inorganic/organic P and non-labile P fraction in sandstone-developed soils of C. carlesii forest were significantly higher than those of C. lanceolata forest, while the corresponding soil P fractions in granite-deve-loped soils had no significant difference between the two types of forests. The activity of acid phosphatase (ACP) in granite-developed soils was significantly higher than that in sandstone-developed soils under two types of forest, while soil microbial biomass carbon (MBC) and P (MBP) in sandstone-developed soils were significantly higher under C. carlesii forest than under C. lanceolata fo-rest. The content of soil P fractions was significantly positively correlated with the content of different forms of iron and aluminum oxides, MBP, and MBC, but negatively correlated with soil pH and acid phosphatase activity (ACP). Our results indicated that parent material and forest types might affect soil P fractions and characteristics mainly through altering soil iron and aluminum oxides, ACP, MBP in mid-subtropical forest soils.

Key words: soil phosphorus fraction, soil parent material, forest type, iron and aluminum oxides