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Effects of long-term fertilization on enzyme activities in black soil of Northeast China.

WANG Shu-qi; HAN Xiao-zeng; QIAO Yun-fa; WANG Shou-yu   

  1. Northeast Institute of Geography and Agricultural Ecology, Chinese Academy of
    Sciences, Harbin 150081, China
  • Received:2007-02-07 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2008-03-21 Published:2008-03-21

Abstract: In this paper, black soil samples at the depths of 0-20 cm and 20-40 cm were collected from the Hailun Agricultural Ecology Station of Chinese Academy of Sciences to study the effects of long-term fertilization on their urease, invertase, phosphatase and catalase activities and total C and N contents. The results showed that long-term application of chemical fertilizers and organic manure increased the activities of urease, invertase and phosphatase in 0-20 cm and 20-40 cm soil layers in different degree, and the combined application of them increased the activities of the three enzymes significantly, with an increment of 43.6%-113.2%, 25.9%-79.5% and 14.7%-134.4% in 0-20 cm soil layer and 56.1%-127.2%, 14.5%-113.8% and 16.2%-207.2% in 20-40 cm soil layer, respectively. However, long-term application of chemical fertilizers without organic manure had little effects on catalase activity. The activities of urease, invertase and phosphatase decreased with increasing soil depth. Long-term application of N fertilizer increased urease activity, and P fertilization had obvious positive effect on phosphatase activity. Long-term fertilization also had obvious effects on the soil total C and N contents and C/N ratio.

Key words: fire disturbance, leaf functional trait, Larix gmelinii community, species diversity, functional diversity