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Effect of rice straw mulching on migration and transportation of Cd, Cu, Zn, and Ni in surface runoff under simulated rainfall

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Purpose

Heavy metals in runoff from contaminated land are becoming a major environmental problem. The presented paper considers the effects of mulching with rice straw on the migration and transportation of heavy metals from the soil into runoff under conditions of simulated rainfall.

Materials and methods

A simulated rainfall experiment was conducted to investigate the impact of rice straw mulching on emissions of sediment and heavy metals in runoff. The soil box was in 20-cm depth with a surface area of 1 m2 and the slope was set to 10°. The rainfall intensity was 90 mm h−1with a 60-min rainfall duration. The study involved samples with different treatments of rice straw mulching: bare soil (BS), low mulching (LM), and high mulching (HM), which had straw contents of 0, 200, and 500 g m−2, respectively.

Results and discussion

The results showed that compared with BS, the cumulative runoff volume declined by 31 and 50 % and cumulative sediment declined significantly by 93 and 97 % for the LM and HM treatments, respectively. Additionally, with an increase of straw mulching, the concentrations of total heavy metals in the LM and HM treatments declined by 79.90–82.84 and 81.90–90.07 %, and the cumulative total heavy metals decreased significantly by 86.5–87.0 and 90.3–94.6 %, respectively. Particulate-bound heavy metals decreased by 88.1–88.9 % for the LM and 94.5–97.1 % for the HM. Furthermore, Cd, Cu, Zn, and Ni migrated and transported mainly in particulate-bound form and had high enrichment in sediments.

Conclusions

Therefore, straw mulching on soil could reduce the sediment yields, and the loss of both particulate-bound heavy metals, especially for Cd and Ni, and cumulative total heavy metals in runoff. Accordingly, it can be used as an effective measure to control heavy-metal-contaminated soil posing pollution risk to environment through surface runoff.

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This work was supported by the National Key Technologies R&D Program of China (2015BAD05B02), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41371318, 41101300), and Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province (13JJ4113).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Agro-ecological Processes in Subtropical Region, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha, Hunan, China

    Zhong-Xiu Rao, Dao-You Huang, Han-Hua Zhu, Qi-Hong Zhu, Ji-Yu Wang, Chao Xu, Xin Shen & Yan-Bing He

  2. Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Zhong-Xiu Rao, Xin Shen & Yan-Bing He

  3. Hunan Soil and Fertilizer Institute, Changsha, Hunan, China

    Zun-Chang Luo

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Rao, ZX., Huang, DY., Zhu, HH. et al. Effect of rice straw mulching on migration and transportation of Cd, Cu, Zn, and Ni in surface runoff under simulated rainfall. J Soils Sediments 16, 2021–2029 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11368-016-1391-8

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