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Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology ›› 2017, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (5): 1661-1667.doi: 10.13287/j.1001-9332.201705.006

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Effects of long-term fertilization on organic nitrogen fractions in aquic brown soil

REN Jin-feng1,2, ZHOU Hua1, MA Qiang1, XU Yong-gang1, JIANG Chun-ming1, PAN Fei-fei1,2, YU Wan-tai1*   

  1. 1Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China;
    2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • Received:2016-09-20 Revised:2017-02-13 Published:2017-05-18
  • Contact: *E-mail: wtyu@iae.ac.cn
  • Supported by:
    This work was supported by the National Key Technology R&D Program (2012BAD05B01), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41471250, 41301326)

Abstract: The purpose of present research was to investigate how different fertilization regimes altered soil organic nitrogen fractions and their inter-annual dynamics based on a series of long-term experiment (initiated at 1990), including: CK (non-fertilization); M (recycled pig manure); NPK (chemical fertilizer NPK); NPK + M (recycled pig manure with chemical fertilizer NPK). The results showed that soil organic nitrogen components under the different fertilization treatments presented contrastive patterns from the establishment the experiments to 2015. Generally, acid hydrolysable organic nitrogen content increased year by year. The amino acid nitrogen content under CK and NPK treatments consistently declined, although amino acid nitrogen for M and NPK+M treatments showed a increasing trend. These phenomena were probably ascribed to the utilization of soil amino acids by microbes. From 1990 to 2015, NPK treatment substantially elevated the content of acid-released ammonium nitrogen by 31.1% compared with CK (mean value across the experiment), and for the treatments using organic manure (M and NPK+M), the contents of all fractions of soil organic nitrogen increased. Notably, the increase magnitudes for NPK+M were more dramatic than those of M. These results demonstrated that combined use of organic and inorganic fertilizers could more effectively elevate soil organic nitrogen, subsequently helping to improve the capacity of soil nitrogen supply and enhance the soil fertility.