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ARCHIVES OF AGRONOMY AND SOIL SCIENCE
Volume 63, Issue 12, Pages 1776-1783Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/03650340.2017.1305107
Keywords
Pasture; grazing pressure; microbial biomass; mineral N; basal respiration rate
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- German Research Foundation [DFG GRK 1397]
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The effects of different grazing pressures (GPs) on soil properties are not sufficiently understood. The objectives were to analyse the effects of three different extensive GPs on stocks of soil organic C and total N, soil microbial biomass C, basal respiration and mineral N in three different soil depths of a long-term pasture in Central Germany (FORBIOBEN field trial). No significant (p0.05) effects of GP on weighted stocks of soil organic C, total N, soil microbial biomass C, mineral N and basal respiration rate were observed, suggesting that the C and N cycles are coupled in the three grazing treatments. Oxalate soluble Fe contents explained a marked part of the variation of soil organic C (multiple linear regression: R-2=0.64) and total N contents (R-2=0.64) in the soils, whereas almost all of the variability of soil microbial biomass C contents and basal respiration was explained by soil organic C contents. Overall, variabilities of soil organic C and N contents were largely explained by oxalate soluble Fe contents, whereas grazing intensity did not affect the C and N dynamics.
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