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Changes in Soil Iron Fractions and Availability in the Loess Belt of Northern China After 28 Years of Continuous Cultivation and Fertilization
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Iron (Fe) deficiency in calcareous soils of the Loess Plateau of China is a wide spread issue and primarily affects agricultural production due to the relatively higher soil pH and carbonate content.Understanding the relationships between Fe distribution in soil fractions,Fe availability,and their responses to cropping and fertilization could provide essential information for assessing Fe availability in soils and managing soils to improve Fe availability.A long-term field experiment was established in 1984 in a split-plot design using cropping systems as main plots and fertilizer treatments as subplots on a farmland in the Loess Plateau.The croppingsystems included fallow,continuous wheat cropping,continuous alfalfa cropping,continuous maize cropping,and a rotation system that included a legume.Various fertilization treatments using chemical and/or manure fertilizers were included in each cropping system.Soil samples were collected from 0-10 and 20-40 cm depths in 2012.Long-term planting of crops significantly increased the concentrations of available Fe in the soils.The largest increase was observed in the continuous alfalfa cropping system.Long-term cropping significantly increased the concentrations of Fe associated with carbonates and organic matter,but decreased the concentration of Fe associatedwith minerals in the soils.The effect of fertilization on the distribution of Fe in the soil fractions varied with cropping system and soil depth.The fertilization treatment with manure generally increased the concentrations of Fe associated with the soil fractions.Long-term cropping and fertilization in the highland farmland significantly affected the availability of Fe and the distribution of Fe fractions in the soil.
College of Natural Resources and Environment, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Yangling 712100 China
Key Laboratory of Mollisols Agroecology, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harbin 150081 China
Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources, Yangling 712100 China
This study was supported by the National Key Technology R&D Program of Chinaand the Shaanxi Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Project of China
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