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Fate of 15N after combined application of rabbit manure and inorganic N fertilizers in a rice–wheat rotation system

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The present study was carried out on pot experiments with rice (Oryza sativa L. cv. Wuyujing 7) and winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L. cv. Yangmai 6) rotation in a sandy and a clayey soil fertilized with 15N-labeled ammonium sulfate (AS) and 15N-labeled rabbit feces so as to study the mechanisms of reduction of fertilizer N loss by organic fertilizers. The treatments included: (1) control without any N fertilizer application; (2) fertilization with 15N-labeled AS (IF); (3) fertilization with labeled rabbit feces (OF); (4) fertilization with either 40% 15N-labeled rabbit feces and 60% unlabeled AS (IOF1) or (5) 40% unlabeled rabbit feces and 60% 15N-labeled AS (IOF2). In the rice season, the IOF treatments compared to the IF treatment decreased the percentage of lost fertilizer N from the sandy and clayey soils, whereas it increased the percentage of fertilizer N, present as mineral N and microbial biomass N (MBN). During the second season, when soils were cropped to winter wheat, the IOF treatments in comparison with the IF or OF treatment increased mineral N and MBN contents of soils sampled at tillering, jointing, and heading stages, and such increases were derived from the organic N fertilizer in the sandy soil and from the inorganic N fertilizer in the clayey soil. The increased MBN in the IOF treatments was derived from inorganic fertilizers applied both soils. Therefore, in the IOF treatment, during the rice season, the organic N increased the immobilization of inorganic N in MBN, while the inorganic N fertilizer applied to both soils stimulated the uptake of organic N and the organic N fertilizer increased the uptake of inorganic N by winter wheat; the inorganic N increased the recovery of organic N in the plant-soil system after harvesting the winter wheat.

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This work was financially supported by China Science and Technology Ministry (2007CB109304). We also thank Professor Warren A. Dick from Ohio State University, USA, and Professor Paolo Nannipieri from University of Florence, Italy, for their careful revisions of the manuscript. Mao would like to thank the National Science Foundation (EAR-0843996) for supporting his research.

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Wu, CL., Shen, QR., Mao, JD. et al. Fate of 15N after combined application of rabbit manure and inorganic N fertilizers in a rice–wheat rotation system. Biol Fertil Soils 46, 127–137 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00374-009-0420-9

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