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SOIL USE AND MANAGEMENT
卷 32, 期 2, 页码 192-199出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/sum.12267
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Winter cover crops; residue location; water-stable aggregates; microbial biomass carbon; CO2 emissions; nitrogen leaching
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- German Research Foundation [1397]
Although the effects of cover crops (CC) on various soil parameters have been fully investigated, less is known about the impacts at different stages in CC cultivation. The objective of this study was to quantify the influence of CC cultivation stages and residue placement on aggregates and microbial carbon (C-mic). Additionally, the influence of residue location and crop species on CO2 emissions and leached mineralized nitrogen (N-min) during the plant degradation period was also investigated. Within an incubation experiment, four CC species were sown in soil columns, with additional columns being kept plant-free. After plant growth, the columns were frozen (as occurs in winter under field conditions) and then incubated with the plant material either incorporated or surface-applied. With CC, concentrations of large and medium macroaggregates were twice that of the fallow, confirming positive effects of root growth. Freezing led to a decrease in these aggregate size classes. In the subsequent incubation, the large macroaggregates decreased far more in the samples with CC than in the fallow, leading to similar aggregate size distributions. No difference in C-mic concentration was found among the CC cultivation stages. CO2 emissions were roughly equivalent to the carbon amounts added as plant residues. Comparison of columns with incorporated or surface-applied residues indicated no consistent pattern of aggregate distribution, CO2 emission or C-mic and N-min concentrations. Our results suggest that positive effects of CC cultivation are only short term and that a large amount of organic material in the soil could have a greater influence than CC cultivation.
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