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Land use affected nutrient mass with minor impact on stoichiometry ratios in Pampean soils

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The effect of land use on soil nitrogen (N) and phosphorous (P) stocks and the stoichiometry ratios are not fully understood. We determined the impact of land use on total N and P stocks along with some of their fractions and carbon (C), N and P ratios in soils of the Pampas. The effect of human activities on N and P fluxes in agroecosystems was also assessed. We sampled 386 soils under contrasting land uses down to 1 m depth. Well drained uncultivated soils were used as control treatment, paired with forest, cropped and flooded soils. Significant effects of land use on N and P stocks were detected to 1 m depth. Cropping decreased soil total N and P contents, mineralizable N and extractable P by an average of 14, 21 and 63% respectively. Conversely, forest soils had larger total N stocks (17%), mineralization (10%) and extractable P (37%) than uncropped controls. Flooded lands had the lowest fertility. Nitrogen and P pools under cultivation decreased higher as soils had higher initial levels N and P. In some low fertility soils, cropping led to N and P increases. Stoichiometry ratios were minimally impacted by land use. The ratio of the cumulative P surface balance to the N surface balance for the last 140 years was + 0.01 kg P/kg N in uncropped control soils and − 0.08 kg P/kg N in cropped soils. Despite this difference, the soil N/P ratio was unaffected by land use indicating that processes at the profile level regulated it.

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This study was supported by the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBACYT 2011-2014, 20020100617; UBACYT 2014-2017, 20020130100484BA), the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (PID 084, 2016-2019) and the Agencia de Promoción Científica (PICT FONCyT 2009-2012, 37164). SAS Institute Inc. is acknowledged for the support with the use of its software due to an agreement with Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires.

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    Roberto Alvarez, Analía Gimenez, María M. Caffaro, Federico Pagnanini, Verónica Recondo, Cecilia D. Molina, María R. Mendoza, Denise A. Ramil, Facundo Facio, Josefina L. De Paepe, Haydee S. Steinbach & Rodolfo J. Cantet

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    Roberto Alvarez, María M. Caffaro, Cecilia D. Molina, Gonzalo Berhongaray, Josefina L. De Paepe & Rodolfo J. Cantet

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Alvarez, R., Gimenez, A., Caffaro, M.M. et al. Land use affected nutrient mass with minor impact on stoichiometry ratios in Pampean soils. Nutr Cycl Agroecosyst 110, 257–276 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10705-017-9896-0

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