Journal
PEDOSPHERE
Volume 20, Issue 6, Pages 799-806Publisher
SCIENCE PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/S1002-0160(10)60070-7
Keywords
aluminum; base cations; cation exchange capacity; soil exchangeable acidity; tea garden
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- National Nature Science Foundation of China [30872009]
- Earmarked Fund for Modern Agro-Industry Technology Research System of China [nycytx-23]
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Soil acidification is an important process in land degradation around the world as well as in China. Acidification of Alfisols was investigated in the tea gardens with various years of tea cultivation in the eastern China. Cultivation of tea plants caused soil acidification and soil acidity increased with the increase of tea cultivation period. Soil pH of composite samples from cultivated layers decreased by 1.37, 1.62 and 1.85, respectively, after 13, 34 and 54 years of tea plantation, as compared to the surface soil obtained from the unused land. Soil acidification rates at early stages of tea cultivation were found to be higher than those at the later stages. The acidification rate for the period of 0-13 years was as high as 4.40 kmol H+ ha(-1) year(-1) for the cultivated layer samples. Soil acidification induced the decrease of soil exchangeable base cations and base cation saturation and thus increased the soil exchangeable acidity. Soil acidification also caused the decrease of soil cation exchange capacity, especially for the 54-year-old tea garden. Soil acidification induced by tea plantation also led to the increase of soil exchangeable Al and soluble Al, which was responsible for the Al toxicity to plants.
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