Journal of Soils and Sediments

, Volume 18, Issue 3, pp 906–916 | Cite as

Distribution of inorganic phosphorus fractions in water-stable aggregates of soil from tea plantations converted from farmland in the hilly region of western Sichuan, China

  • Wen Wu
  • Zicheng Zheng
  • Tingxuan Li
  • Shuqin He
  • Xizhou Zhang
  • Yongdong Wang
  • Tao Liu
Soils, Sec 3 • Remediation and Management of Contaminated or Degraded Lands • Research Article
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Abstract

Purpose

Establishing tea plantations (Camellia sinensis L.) can markedly change the pools of soil inorganic phosphorus (P) especially in water-stable aggregates. However, the effects of different chronosequence phases on the quantity and quality of inorganic P fractions in such plantations are poorly understood.

Materials and methods

This study investigated the inorganic P fractions including the Al bound-P (Al-P), Fe bound-P (Fe-P), occluded-P (O-P), and Ca bound-P (Ca-P) in water-stable aggregates (WSAs) of soil from tea plantations converted from farmland. The investigations included 2–3 (CT2-3), 9–10 (CT9-10), and 16–17 years (CT16-17) and one abandoned land as contrast (CK), which is close to the three different-aged sites of soil from tea plantations converted from farmland in Zhongfeng Township of Mingshan County, Sichuan, southwest China.

Results and discussion

The dominant size fraction was the aggregate with 0.5–0.25 mm. Content of > 1 mm fraction gradually increased with the increasing age in tea plantations. The contribution rate is closely related to the content of WSAs. The highest content of Al-P was observed in the aggregate with < 1 mm, Fe-P and Ca-P mainly existed in the aggregate with > 2 mm, and the distribution of O-P was uniform in soil from tea plantations converted from farmland at 0–20 and 20–40 cm soil depths, indicating that aggregate size fractions can influence the concentration of P in different P fractions. The contents of Al-P and Fe-P increased with the increasing age in tea plantations, whereas the contents of O-P and Ca-P decreased in CT16-17.

Conclusions

The results of this study show that the distribution of inorganic P fractions can be influenced by aggregate size and inorganic P fractions which had low activity and are transformed into highly available fractions with the increasing age in tea plantations.

Keywords

Inorganic phosphorus fractions Tea plantations converted from farmland Water-stable aggregates 
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Notes

Acknowledgements

The authors express their gratitude to the National Natural Science Foundation of China (40901138) and the Sichuan Science and Technology Support Project (2013NZ0044). The authors would like to thank referees who give their valuable suggestions on the manuscript.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Wen Wu
    • 1
  • Zicheng Zheng
    • 1
  • Tingxuan Li
    • 1
  • Shuqin He
    • 2
  • Xizhou Zhang
    • 1
  • Yongdong Wang
    • 1
  • Tao Liu
    • 1
  1. 1.College of Resources ScienceSichuan Agricultural UniversityChengduChina
  2. 2.College of ForestrySichuan Agricultural UniversityChengduChina

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