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Fertilization regimes impact CO2 emission of rainfed maize field in an acidic luvisol

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Background and aims

Addition of nitrification inhibitor (NI) to nitrogen fertilizer is an effective way to mitigate N2O emission. However, the impacts of applying NI with pig manure and inorganic fertilizer on soil CO2 emissions in Northeast China are poorly documented. The objective of this study was to assess the effects of NI with pig manure and inorganic fertilizer on soil CO2 emissions for four consecutive years (2012–2015), in an acidic luvisol of a maize cropping system in Northeast China.

Methods

The experiment included three treatments: (1) inorganic fertilizer (NPK), (2) NPK plus pig manure (NPKM), (3) NPKM plus nitrification inhibitor 3,4-Dimethylpyrazole phosphate (NPKMI). Soil CO2 fluxes were measured using static closed chamber method.

Results

The maize yield in NPKM was significantly increased (p < 0.05) in 2015 compared with NPK. NPKM significantly increased soil CO2 emission by 23.5% (p < 0.05) in 2015/2016 compared with NPK, while NPKMI has little effect on soil CO2 emission compared with NPKM. NPKM and NPKMI showed no significant effects (p > 0.05) on bacterial abundance compared to NPK, respectively. Temperature sensitivity of soil respiration (Q10) was significantly enhanced by 7.6% (p < 0.05) after manure application. Soil depth of 15 cm was more appropriate for calculating Q10 of CO2 emission than that in the 0 cm, 5 cm and 10 cm.

Conclusions

The integrated application of manure and inorganic fertilizer may increase the soil C loss through CO2 emissions over time, while additional application of DMPP has little impact on soil CO2 emissions.

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The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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Funding

This study was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (42107348), the Science and Technology Plan Project of Shenyang (22–322–3-05), Huai’an Excellent Youth Science Foundation, Natural Science Foundation for Higher Education Institutions of Jiangsu Province (19KJA150003, 21KJA210005), and Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education (21KJB170021).

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  1. Collaborative Innovation Center of Regional Modern Agriculture & Environmental Protection/Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Eco-Agriculture Biotechnology around Hongze Lake, Huaiyin Normal University, Huai’an, 223300, China

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  2. Key Laboratory of Pollution Ecology and Environmental Engineering, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, 110016, China

    Weichao Yang, Hao Sun, Mingfu Gao, Shuang Kong & Hui Xu

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WY and HX contributed to conceptualization; HS and SK contributed to methodology; DD and SK contributed to investigation; DD contributed to writing—original draft preparation; WY, MG, HS and HX contributed to writing—review and editing; MG and SK contributed to visualization; HX and DD contributed to funding acquisition. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

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Dong, D., Yang, W., Sun, H. et al. Fertilization regimes impact CO2 emission of rainfed maize field in an acidic luvisol. Plant Soil (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-024-06572-3

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