Soil organic carbon stocks in China and changes from 1980s to 2000s

The estimation of the size and changes of soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks is of great importance for decision makers to adopt proper measures to protect soils and to develop strategies for mitigation of greenhouse gases. In this paper, soil data from the Second State Soil Survey of China (SSSSC) conducted in the early 1980s and data published in the last 5 years were used to estimate the size of SOC stocks over the whole profile and their changes in China in last 20 years. Soils were identified as paddy, upland, forest, grassland or waste‐land soils and an improved soil bulk density estimation method was used to estimate missing bulk density data. In the early 1980s, total SOC stocks were estimated at 89.61 Pg (1 Pg=10³ Tg=10¹⁵ g) in China's 870.94 Mha terrestrial areas covered by 2473 soil series. In the paddy, upland, forest and grassland soils the respective total SOC stocks were 2.91 Pg on 29.87 Mha, 10.07 Pg on 125.89 Mha, 34.23 Pg on 249.32 Mha and 37.71 Pg on 278.51 Mha, respectively. The SOC density of the surface layer ranged from 3.5 Mg ha⁻¹ in Gray Desery grassland soils to 252.6 Mg ha⁻¹ in Mountain Meadow forest soils. The average area‐weighted total SOC density in paddy soils (97.6 Mg ha⁻¹) was higher than that in upland soils (80 Mg ha⁻¹). Soils under forest (137.3 Mg ha⁻¹) had a similar average area‐weighted total SOC density as those under grassland (135.4 Mg ha⁻¹). The annual estimated SOC accumulation rates in farmland and forest soils in the last 20 years were 23.61 and 11.72 Tg, respectively, leading to increases of 0.472 and 0.234 Pg SOC in farmland and forest areas, respectively. In contrast, SOC under grassland declined by 3.56 Pg due to the grassland degradation over this period. The resulting estimated net SOC loss in China's soils over the last 20 years was 2.86 Pg. The documented SOC accumulation in farmland and forest soils could thus not compensate for the loss of SOC in grassland soils in the last 20 years. There were, however, large regional differences: Soils in China's South and Eastern parts acted mainly as C sinks, increasing their average topsoil SOC by 132 and 145 Tg, respectively. In contrast, in the Northwest, Northeast, Inner Mongolia and Tibet significant losses of 1.38, 0.21, 0.49 and 1.01 Pg of SOC, respectively, were estimated over the last 20 years. These results highlight the importance to take measures to protect grassland and to improve management practices to increase C sequestration in farmland and forest soils.     

稻田水生昆虫的采样技术方法与应用

稻田水生昆虫在稻田生态系统功能实现中发挥着重要的作用。本文基于作者对稻田生态系统中水生昆虫多样性研究,系统地介绍了稻田水生昆虫的生态位分布、定量研究与定性研究的采集技术方法与流程,为更好地开展稻田水生昆虫研究提供技术支撑。     

福建冷浸田土壤质量评价因子的最小数据集

江南山区中低产冷浸田分布广泛,其改良利用对促进粮食增产意义重大.本研究通过比较福建省17对典型冷浸田与同一微地貌单元内非冷浸田表层土壤的41项物理、化学与生物指标,系统分析了冷浸田与非冷浸田之间各指标差异及其产生的原因,并利用主成分分析等方法构建冷浸田土壤质量评价因子最小数据集.结果表明:与非冷浸田相比,冷浸田土壤总有机质高31.7％,表征活性有机质的微生物生物量C降低37.8％;Fe2+高177.0％,速效磷、钾分别降低52.3％和22.8％;过氧化氢酶和转化酶分别高58.3％和22.1％,磷酸酶、硝酸还原酶分别降低47.8％和66.6％,微生物区系数量降低29.8％～46.0％;物理性砂粒含量高8.0％,浸水容重降低25.8％.冷浸田与非冷浸田之间表土有28项属性指标呈现显著差异.用因子分析方法从28项有显著差异的指标中归纳出累计贡献率达78.5％并能分别反映土壤生化、活性有机N、还原性障碍、物理与化学养分特征的5个主成分,结合相关分析模型和专家经验法建立了包括C/N、细菌、微生物生物量N、还原性物质总量、物理性砂粒、全磷6项因子的冷浸田土壤质量评价因子最小数据集.     

冬种绿肥和秸秆还田对双季稻区土壤团聚体和有机质官能团的影响

为探讨外源有机物料在提升土壤有机碳和改良土壤肥力中的作用机理,依托中国农业科学院衡阳红壤实验站的长期定位试验,研究了冬种绿肥和秸秆还田模式(CK,冬闲;MV,冬种紫云英;S,早稻秸秆全量还田;DS,早、晚稻秸秆全量还田;SMV,冬种紫云英+早稻秸秆全量还田;DSMV,冬种紫云英+早、晚稻秸秆全量还田)对土壤团聚体和有机质官能团的影响。结果表明: 双季稻土壤超大团聚体(>2 mm)和大团聚体(0.25～2 mm)含量最多,为72.1%～81.8%,且两者中有机碳含量高达12.1～20.7 g·kg^-1,占总有机碳的22.7%～59.0%。水稻土中有机物官能团以多糖为主,其次为脂肪碳和芳香碳,各官能团的丰度受紫云英种植和秸秆还田的影响。与其他处理相比,DSMV显著增加了水稻土中超大团聚体(>2 mm)和大团聚体(0.25～2 mm)的含量,并促进了两种团聚体内芳香碳等惰性碳的积累。因此,DSMV更有利于土壤团聚体和有机质稳定性的提升,在实际农业生产中具有较大的应用潜力。     

Accumulation of nitrogen and microbial residues during 2000 years of rice paddy and non‐paddy soil development in the Yangtze River Delta,China

Lowland rice paddy soils may accumulate significant amounts of organic matter. Our aim was to investigate the role of prolonged paddy management on the nitrogen (N) status of the soils, and to elucidate the contribution of bacteria and fungi to long‐term N accumulation processes. For this purpose, we sampled a chronosequence of 0–2000 years of rice cropping with adjacent non‐paddy systems in the Bay of Hangzhou, China. The samples were analyzed for bulk density, total, mineral and microbial N (N_mic), and amino sugars as markers for microbial residues. The results showed that during the first 100 years of land embankment, both paddy and non‐paddy soils accumulated N at a rate of up to 61 and 77 kg ha^?1 per annum, reaching steady‐state conditions after 110–172 years, respectively. Final N stocks in paddy fields exceeded those of the non‐paddies by a factor of 1.3. The contribution of amino sugars to total N increased to a maximum of 34 g N kg^?1 N in both land‐use systems, highlighting a significant accumulation of N in microbial residues of the surface soils. Correspondingly, the ratio of N_mic to microbial residue‐N decreased to a constant value. In the paddy subsoils, we found that bacterial residues particularly contributed to the pool of microbial residue‐N. Nevertheless, the absolute contents of amino sugars in paddy subsoils decreased during the last 1700 years of the chronosequence. We conclude that under paddy cultivation, soil microorganisms may accumulate parts of this N in their residues despite low overall N availability. However, this N accumulation is limited to initial stages of paddy soil development and restricted to the surface horizons, thus challenging its sustainability with future land‐use changes.     

Methane and soil CO2 production from current‐season photosynthates in a rice paddy exposed to elevated CO2 concentration and soil temperature

Quantification of rhizodeposition (root exudates and root turnover) represents a major challenge for understanding the links between above‐ground assimilation and below‐ground anoxic decomposition of organic carbon in rice paddy ecosystems. Free‐air CO₂ enrichment (FACE) fumigating depleted ¹³CO₂ in rice paddy resulted in a smaller ¹³C/¹²C ratio in plant‐assimilated carbon, providing a unique measure by which we partitioned the sources of decomposed gases (CO₂ and CH₄) into current‐season photosynthates (new C) and soil organic matter (old C). In addition, we imposed a soil‐warming treatment nested within the CO₂ treatments to assess whether the carbon source was sensitive to warming. Compared with the ambient CO₂ treatment, the FACE treatment decreased the ¹³C/¹²C ratio not only in the rice‐plant carbon but also in the soil CO₂ and CH₄. The estimated new C contribution to dissolved CO₂ was minor (ca. 20%) at the tillering stage, increased with rice growth and was about 50% from the panicle‐formation stage onwards. For CH₄, the contribution of new C was greater than for heterotrophic CO₂ production; ca. 40–60% of season‐total CH₄ production originated from new C with a tendency toward even larger new C contribution with soil warming, presumably because enhanced root decay provided substrates for greater CH₄ production. The results suggest a fast and close coupling between photosynthesis and anoxic decomposition in soil, and further indicate a positive feedback of global warming by enhanced CH₄ emission through greater rhizodeposition.     

Anaerobic ammonia oxidation in a fertilized paddy soil

Evidence for anaerobic ammonium oxidation in a paddy field was obtained in Southern China using an isotope-pairing technique, quantitative PCR assays and 16S rRNA gene clone libraries, along with nutrient profiles of soil cores. A paddy field with a high load of slurry manure as fertilizer was selected for this study and was shown to contain a high amount of ammonium (6.2–178.8 mg kg⁻¹). The anaerobic oxidation of ammonium (anammox) rates in this paddy soil ranged between 0.5 and 2.9 nmolN per gram of soil per hour in different depths of the soil core, and the specific cellular anammox activity observed in batch tests ranged from 2.9 to 21 fmol per cell per day. Anammox contributed 4–37% to soil N2 production, the remainder being due to denitrification. The 16S rRNA gene sequences of surface soil were closely related to the anammox bacteria ‘Kuenenia'', ‘Anammoxoglobus'' and ‘Jettenia''. Most of the anammox 16S rRNA genes retrieved from the deeper soil were affiliated to ‘Brocadia''. The retrieval of mainly bacterial amoA sequences in the upper part of the paddy soil indicated that nitrifying bacteria may be the major source of nitrite for anammox bacteria in the cultivated horizon. In the deeper oxygen-limited parts, only archaeal amoA sequences were found, indicating that archaea may produce nitrite in this part of the soil. It is estimated that a total loss of 76 g N m⁻² per year is linked to anammox in the paddy field.     

氮肥减量配施生物炭对黄壤稻田土壤有机碳活性组分和矿化的影响

化肥减施增效有助于农业的可持续发展。本研究用等氮量生物炭替代化肥氮,设置0、10%、20%、30%、40%(CK,T₁～T₄) 5个替代比例,在水稻收获后采集土壤样品进行室内分析,研究氮肥减量配施生物炭对黄壤稻田土壤有机碳活性组分和矿化的影响。结果表明: 氮肥减量配施生物炭均可显著提高土壤有机碳(SOC)含量,且与生物炭配施量呈正比。氮肥减施20%条件下,土壤微生物生物量碳(MBC)和易氧化碳(ROC)含量均最高,分别为293.68和250.00 mg·kg^-1,土壤可溶性碳(DOC)含量最低。SOC矿化速率在培养的第3天达到最高,前期(第3~6天)迅速下降,中期(第6~18天)缓慢下降,后期(第18~30天)趋于稳定,矿化速率随时间的动态变化符合对数函数;SOC累积矿化量和累积矿化率分别为0.66～0.86 g·kg^-1和2.9%～4.0%,均以T₂处理最低。稻谷产量随氮肥减施比例的增加呈先增加后下降趋势,T₂处理最高,比CK显著增加了13.4%。本试验条件下,化学氮肥减量20%配施适量生物炭(5 t·hm^-2)可有效提高SOC、MBC、ROC含量和水稻产量,降低SOC累积矿化量和累积矿化率,增强土壤固碳能力,是贵州黄壤稻田土壤固碳培肥的较好选择。     

Simultaneous quantification of N2, NH3 and N2O emissions from a flooded paddy field under different N fertilization regimes

Gaseous nitrogen (N) emissions, especially emissions of dinitrogen (N₂) and ammonia (NH₃), have long been considered as the major pathways of N loss from flooded rice paddies. However, no studies have simultaneously evaluated the overall response of gaseous N losses to improved N fertilization practices due to the difficulties to directly measure N₂ emissions from paddy soils. We simultaneously quantified emissions of N₂ (using membrane inlet mass spectrometry), NH₃ and nitrous oxide (N₂O) from a flooded paddy field in southern China over an entire rice‐growing season. Our field experiment included three treatments: a control treatment (no N addition) and two N fertilizer (220 kg N/ha) application methods, the traditional surface application of N fertilizer and the incorporation of N fertilizer into the soil. Our results show that over the rice‐growing season, the cumulative gaseous N losses from the surface application treatment accounted for 13.5% (N₂), 19.1% (NH₃), 0.2% (N₂O) and 32.8% (total gaseous N loss) of the applied N fertilizer. Compared with the surface application treatment, the incorporation of N fertilizer into the soil decreased the emissions of NH₃, N₂ and N₂O by 14.2%, 13.3% and 42.5%, respectively. Overall, the incorporation of N fertilizer into the soil significantly reduced the total gaseous N loss by 13.8%, improved the fertilizer N use efficiency by 14.4%, increased the rice yield by 13.9% and reduced the gaseous N loss intensity (gaseous N loss/rice yield) by 24.3%. Our results indicate that the incorporation of N fertilizer into the soil is an effective agricultural management practice in ensuring food security and environmental sustainability in flooded paddy ecosystems.     

土壤有机碳和外源添加碳对水稻土土体呼吸的影响

土体呼吸输出碳来源于土壤固有有机碳和外源添加碳,而以往关于不同施肥措施对水稻土碳排放的研究少有区分碳的来源。本试验利用一个长达30年的水稻土定位试验,在保证原有定位试验继续正常开展的前提下变更部分施肥处理,得到继续施用高量有机肥(HOM)、施用常量有机肥30年后改施高量有机肥(N-H)、继续施用常量有机肥(NOM)、施用化肥30年后改施常量有机肥(C-N)、施用高量有机肥30年后改施化肥(H-C)、施用常量有机肥30年后改施化肥(N-C)、继续施用化肥(CF)等7种施肥处理。通过观测早稻生长期间原有施肥和改施肥处理土体CO2排放通量(FCO2),研究不同后续施肥对水稻土FCO2的影响,以期探讨土壤原始有机碳和外源添加碳对土壤FCO2的影响。结果表明:7种不同施肥处理土体CO2平均排放通量(F珔CO2)分别为85.34、69.10、51.27、49.15、14.89、12.92和11.59 mg C.m-2.h-1;对施用无机肥料和常量有机肥料的土体而言,土壤本身有机碳含量对F珔CO2无显著影响,但对施用高量有机肥的土体而言,土壤本身的高有机碳含量会增强F珔CO2;CO2排放通量(Y)与添加外源碳量(x)之间符合指数方程:Y=13.33e1.719 x(R2=0.967,n=21),施入的外源有机碳对土体FCO2产生极显著影响;当季外源添加碳以CO2-C矿化分解释放的碳占其总碳量的14%左右,且该分解率受土壤有机碳含量和有机物料添加量的影响较小。