Long-Term Fertilization Alters the Storage and Stability of Soil Organic Carbon in Chinese Paddy Soil

Author:

Mustafa Adnan1ORCID,Xu Hu2,Sun Nan1,Liu Kailou3ORCID,Huang Qinghai3,Nezhad Mohammad Tahsin Karimi4,Xu Minggang15

Affiliation:

1. State Key Laboratory of Efficient Utilization of Arid and Semi-Arid Arable Land in Northern China, Key Laboratory of Arable Land Quality Monitoring and Evaluation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China

2. Key Laboratory of Plant Nutrition and the Agri-Environment in Northwest China, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Resources and Environment, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang 712100, China

3. Institute of Red Soil Research, Jinxian 331700, China

4. Department of Forest Ecology, The Silva Tarouca Research Institute for Landscape and Ornamental Gardening, Lidicka 25/27, 60200 Brno, Czech Republic

5. Shanxi Province Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Nutrient Resources, Institute of Eco-Environment and Industrial Technology, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan 030031, China

Abstract

The storage of soil organic carbon (SOC) in cropland soils is an essential strategy that serves the dual purpose of enhancing soil fertility and mitigating climate change. However, how the stability of stored carbon is altered under long-term fertilization has not been well understood, especially in the double rice cropping system in Chinese paddy soils. In this study, we explored the SOC storage and consequent stability of SOC under long-term fertilization. The soil samples were fractionated chemically to isolate various fractions and constituent pools of SOC (i.e., very labile C/VLC, labile C/LC, less labile C/LLC, and non-labile C/NLC). The following treatments were tested: control (CK), recommended rate of inorganic fertilizer (NPK), double the amount of recommended rate of inorganic fertilizer (2NPK), and NPK combined with manure (NPKM). The results showed that, relative to the initial level, the application of NPKM significantly improved the SOC storage as compared to the control. The long-term NPKM increased the total SOC in the paddy soil and this increased SOC was mainly stored in LLC, as revealed by the highest increase (142%) over the control. Furthermore, the highest proportion of labile pool was associated with unfertilized CK, while the reverse was true for the recalcitrant pool, which was highest under NPKM. This supports the role of combining manure with NPK to improve the stability of SOC, further verified by the high recalcitrance index under NPKM (56.75% for 0–20 cm and 57.69% for 20–40 cm) as compared to the control.

Funder

National Key Research and Development Program of China

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

Agronomy and Crop Science

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