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Response of phosphorus fractions to land-use change followed by long-term fertilization in a sub-alpine humid soil of Qinghai–Tibet plateau

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Abstract

Purpose

Identification of phosphorus (P) species is essential to understand the transformation and availability of P in soil. However, P species as affected by land use change along with fertilization has received little attention in a sub-alpine humid soil of Tibet plateau.

Materials and methods

In this study, we investigated the changes in P species using Hedley sequential fractionation and liquid-state 31P-NMR spectroscopy in soils under meadow (M) and under cropland with (CF) or without (CNF) long-term fertilization for 26 years in a sub-alpine cold-humid region in Qinghai–Tibet plateau.

Results and discussion

Land-use change and long-term fertilization affected the status and fractions of P. A strong mineralization of organic P (OP) was induced by losing protection of soil organic matter (SOM) and Fe and Al oxides during land-use change and resulted in an increase of orthophosphate (from 56.49 mg kg−1 in M soils to 130.07 mg kg−1 in CNF soils) and great decreases of orthophosphate diesters (diester-P, from 23.35 mg kg−1 in M soils to 10.68 mg kg−1 in CNF soils) and monoesters (from 336.04 mg kg−1 in M soils to 73.26 mg kg−1 in CNF soils). Long-term fertilization boosted P supply but failed to reclaim soil diester-P (from 10.68 mg kg−1 in CNF soils to 7.79 mg kg−1 in CF soils). This may be due to the fragile protection from the combination of SOM with diester-P when long-term fertilization had only improved SOM in a slight extent.

Conclusions

These results suggest that SOM plays an important role in the soil P cycling and prevents OP mineralization and losses from soil. It is recommended that optimization of soil nutrient management integrated with SOM was required to improve the P use efficiency for the development of sustainable agriculture.

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Funding

This work was jointly supported by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation funded Project (2016M601095), National Natural Science Fund Projects of China (41701561), National Key Research and Development Project of China (2016YFD0800104-4), and Sino-Danish Joint Doctoral Promotion Programme (Chinese Academy of Sciences).

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  1. College of Resources and Environment, Sino-Danish College, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Xiaolei Sun, Guoxi Wang & Zhengyi Hu

  2. Sino-Danish Center for Education and Research, Beijing, 100190, China

    Xiaolei Sun, Meng Li, Guoxi Wang, Fulai Liu & Zhengyi Hu

  3. Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Crop Science Section, University of Copenhagen, Højbakkegaard Allé 13, DK-2630, Taastrup, Denmark

    Xiaolei Sun, Meng Li & Fulai Liu

  4. State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China

    Meng Li

  5. Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca sulla Risonanza Magnetica Nucleare per l’Ambiente, l’Agroalimentare ed i Nuovi Materiali (CERMANU), Università di Napoli “Federico II”, via Università 100, 80055, Portici, Italy

    Marios Drosos

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Sun, X., Li, M., Wang, G. et al. Response of phosphorus fractions to land-use change followed by long-term fertilization in a sub-alpine humid soil of Qinghai–Tibet plateau. J Soils Sediments 19, 1109–1119 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11368-018-2132-y

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