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AGRONOMY-BASEL
Volume 12, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/agronomy12020479
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no tillage; carbon sequestration; particulate organic matter; mineral-associated organic matter; C; N and C; Po ratios
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This study evaluated the effect of no tillage (NT) on soil organic matter (SOM) content and distribution, and found that NT increased SOM content in the surface layers and improved the quality of labile organic matter.
No tillage (NT) fosters carbon (C) sequestration, increases soil organic matter (SOM) stock, and improves soil health. However, its effect on SOM accumulation in Andosol, which has high OM stabilization characteristics due to its specific mineral properties, remains unclear. In this study, we evaluated the effect of NT on SOM content and its distribution by the physical fractionation method and assessed the quality of accumulated SOM in each fraction. We collected soil samples at 0-2.5, 2.5-7.5, and 7.5-15 cm depths from NT and conventional tillage (CT) plots in a long-term (19 years) field experiment of Andosols in Ibaraki, Japan. The soil samples were separated into light fraction (LF), coarse-POM (cPOM: 0.25-2 mm), fine-POM (fPOM: 0.053-0.25 mm), and silt + clay (mOM: <0.053 mm). The C, nitrogen (N), and organic phosphorus (Po) contents of each fraction were analyzed. The C content of cPOM and fPOM in NT at 0-7.5 cm was higher than in CT, while there was no clear difference in the mOM fraction or deeper layer (7.5-15 cm). NT increased the C, N, and Po contents in the labile POM fractions at the surface layers but did not increase the stable fraction or change the quality.
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