Journal
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 625, Issue -, Pages 1065-1073Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.12.293
Keywords
Soil organic matter; Particulate organic matter; Mineral-associated organic matter; Alkyl C/O-alkyl C ratio; NMR spectroscopy; FTIR spectroscopy
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Funding
- National Key R&D Program of China [2016YFD0200107, 2016YFD0300801]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31328020]
- Project of the Introduction of the Leading Talent Team in Colleges and Universities of Anhui Province of China [gxljtdzd201607]
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Crop straw incorporation is a useful approach for increasing the quantity and changing the chemical composition of soil organic matter (SOM). This process is influenced by soil aeration. The present study investigated the stability of whole SOM, particulate organic matter (POM) and mineral-associated organic matter (MinOM) fractions with wheat straw amendment under aerobic and anaerobic conditions over a 12-month incubation period. Sol id state nuclear magnetic resonance and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy were used to analyze the chemical composition of whole SOM, POM and MinOM fractions. The decomposition rate of wheat straw was lower under anaerobic than under aerobic conditions (0.014 vs. 0.020 day(-1)). Wheat straw incorporation increased the original soil organic carbon content (7A g.kg(-1)) under both aerobic (up to 10.2g.kg(-1)) and anaerobic (up to 10.3 g.kg(-1)) conditions, but the content of mineral-associated organic carbon (MinOC) under aerobic condition (7.0 g.kg(-1)) was significantly larger than that under anaerobic condition (4.9 g.kg(-1)). The proportion of alkyl carbon (C) in SOM, POM and MinOM fractions was greater under anaerobic than under aerobic conditions, while the opposite was true for the proportion of O-alkyl C of SOM and POM and MinOM fractions. A/O-A indices (i.e., the ratio of alkyl C to O-alkyl C) of whole SOM, POM and MinOM were higher under anaerobic than under aerobic conditions. We conclude that wheat straw incorporation resulted in the enrichment of alkyl C in the POM and MinOM fractions under anaerobic conditions, and thus improved the stability of SOM. In this way, the decomposition of crop residue influenced SOM structural chemistry at the molecular level. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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