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Interactive effects of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer and composted manure on ammonia volatilization from soils

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When synthetic fertilizer is co-applied with composted manure (compost), the high urease activity of compost may stimulate urea hydrolysis, thus increasing NH3 volatilization when urea is co-applied as a synthetic fertilizer. In this study, the interactive effects of compost type (low vs. high urease activity, referred to as CL and CH, respectively) and synthetic fertilizer form (urea vs. ammonium sulfate) were assessed in a 60-day greenhouse study. The compost was applied as a basal fertilization only at the initiation of the experiment, and the fertilizers (15N labeled or not) were split into basal and additional fertilization. During the 10 days after the basal fertilization, co-application of CL with urea did not increase NH3 volatilization as compared with urea alone treatment. However, co-application of CH with urea resulted in a significant increase in NH3 volatilization by more than 3-fold, not only from applied fertilizer-15N but also from compost and/or soil over the other two (urea alone and urea with CL) treatments. Meanwhile, when ammonium sulfate was co-applied with CH, NH3 volatilization from fertilizer became 3-fold lower than that when urea was co-applied. During the second 10 days after the application of urea as an additional fertilizer, the amount of NH3 volatilization from CH-treated soil did not differ from that observed with CL, and this is probably attributable to a reduction in urease activity in soils over time. These results indicate that not only the combination of compost and synthetic fertilizer, but also the time difference between the application of compost and synthetic fertilizer, are crucial to reducing NH3 volatilization.

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This study was supported by the Technology Development Program for Agriculture and Forestry, Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of Korea. Institute of Agricultural Science & Technology at the Chonnam National University provided valuable helps in the field experiment.

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  1. Graduate School of Horticulture, Chiba University, 648 Matsudo, Matsudo-shi, Chiba-ken, 271-8510, Japan

    Miwa Matsushima

  2. Department of Biosystems & Agricultural Engineering, Institute of Agricultural Science & Technology, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 500-757, Korea

    Sang-Sun Lim, Jin-Hyeob Kwak, Hyun-Jung Park, Sun-Il Lee, Dong-Suk Lee & Woo-Jung Choi

  3. Environment-Friendly Agriculture Research Center, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 500-757, Korea

    Woo-Jung Choi

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Matsushima, M., Lim, SS., Kwak, JH. et al. Interactive effects of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer and composted manure on ammonia volatilization from soils. Plant Soil 325, 187–196 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-009-9967-3

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