期刊
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY BIOENERGY
卷 9, 期 8, 页码 1344-1355出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/gcbb.12429
关键词
biochar; corn; grassland; limited irrigation; maize; soil food web; water scarcity
资金
- United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service Conservation and Innovation Grant [69-3A75-14-61]
- United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture Research Initiative - Coordinated Agricultural Projects Bioenergy Alliance Network of the Rockies grant [2013-68005-21298]
Climate change is predicted to increase climate variability and frequency of extreme events such as drought, straining water resources in agricultural systems. Thus, limited irrigation strategies and soil amendments are being explored to conserve water in crop production. Biochar is the recalcitrant, carbon-based coproduct of biomass pyrolysis during bioenergy production. When used as a soil amendment, biochar can increase soil water retention while enhancing soil properties and stimulating food webs. We investigated the effects of coupled biochar amendment and limited irrigation on belowground food web structure and function in an irrigated maize agroecosystem. We hypothesized that soil biota biomass and activity would decrease with limited irrigation and increase with biochar amendment and that biochar amendment would mitigate the impact of limited irrigation on the soil food web. One year after biochar addition, we extracted, identified, and estimated the biomass of taxonomic groups of soil biota (e.g., bacteria, fungi, protozoa, nematodes, and arthropods) from wood-derived biochar-amended (30 Mg ha(-1)) and nonamended soils under maize with limited (two-thirds of full) and full irrigation. We modeled structural and functional properties of the soil food web. Neither biochar amendment nor limited irrigation had a significant effect on biomass of the soil biota groups. Modeled soil respiration and nitrogen mineralization fluxes were not different between treatments. A comparison of the structure and function of the agroecosystem soil food web and a nearby native grassland revealed that in this temperate system, the negative impact of long-term conventional agricultural management outweighed the impact of limited irrigation. One year of biochar amendment did not mitigate nor further contribute to the negative effects of historical agricultural management.
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