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GEODERMA
卷 257, 期 -, 页码 4-13出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2015.04.027
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Soil phosphorus fractionation; Organic phosphorus; Occluded phosphorus; Non-occluded phosphorus; Nutrient dynamics; Cooloola sequence
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- Australian Research Council [FT0990547]
- Australian Research Council [FT0990547] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
The amounts and forms of soil phosphorus (P) follow predictable patterns during long-term pedogenesis, but have rarely been examined along subtropical chronosequences. We quantified changes in soil nutrient stocks, foliar nutrient concentrations, and the chemical forms of soil P along the Cooloola chronosequence, a series of coastal dunes spanning ca. 500,000 years of pedogenesis in subtropical Queensland. The total P stock in the upper 30 cm of the soil profile declined continuously with soil age, from 229-237 kg ha(-1) on the youngest soils (40 years old) to 24-28 kg ha(-1) on the oldest soils (195->460 ka). In contrast, total carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) stocks increased initially along the chronosequence and then declined in the oldest soils. As a consequence, soil N:P ratios increased continually throughout the sequence, from <= 4 on the youngest soils to 27-30 on the oldest soils. This indication of increasing biological P stress and ultimately P limitation was further supported by a decline in foliar P concentrations and increasing foliar N:P ratios of two common plant genera along the chronosequence. Sequential P fractionation revealed that although all forms of P declined during pedogenesis, young soils contained low concentrations of primary mineral P and relatively high concentrations of occluded P associated with secondary minerals, suggesting that the parent sand originated from strongly-weathered continental soils. We conclude that the Cooloola chronosequence is an important example of long-term ecosystem development under a subtropical climate, although the pre-weathered nature of the parent sand indicates that the sequence represents a modification of the Walker and Syers model of P transformations during pedogenesis. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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