Engell, Ilka and Linsler, Deborah and Schrader, Stefan and Taylor, Astrid and Ludwig, Bernard and Potthoff, Martin
(2021).
Crop residue displacement by soil inversion: Annelid responses and their impact on carbon and nitrogen dynamics in a lab-based mesocosm study.
Applied Soil Ecology. 167
, 104151
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Abstract
In the context of sustainable agriculture, a deeper knowledge of the effects of soil management on soil annelids is needed, as they play an important role in many soil processes. In a laboratory mesocosm experiment, we compared the simulated effect of ploughing by inverting the top soil (crop residues at 15 cm depth) to a noninversion treatment (crop residues on the soil surface) using the soil type Haplic Luvisol. We investigated the response of earthworms and enchytraeids and the consequences for microbial and chemical soil parameters. Four treatments with soil fauna were established by adding: (i) endogeic earthworms (Octolasion cyaneum), (ii) anecic earthworms (Lumbricus terrestris), (iii) a combination of two enchytraeid species (Enchytraeus crypticus and Enchytraeus christenseni) and (iv) having control columns (without annelids). Feeding behaviour of annelids was investigated using isotopic analysis (delta C-13, delta N-15), and chemical and microbial soil properties were measured. Carbon and nitrogen losses in the form of gas emissions (CO2, N2O) and leachate were recorded during the time of incubation.We found no interactions of soil inversion and annelid addition on chemical and microbial soil properties; these properties were closely related to crop residue placement, indicated by the effect of soil inversion between 0 and 20 cm. Below 20 cm, this effect disappeared. Here, the presence of enchytraeids enhanced soil microbial properties, regardless of soil inversion. Stimulating microbial activity and increasing soil aeration seem to be the most important factors that increase CO2-C emissions in the presence of anecic earthworms. N2O-N emissions were consistently higher (+188%) in the inverted columns. Our results show that regardless of the placement of crop residues, anecic earthworms and enchytraeids fed more on crop residue derived carbon than endogeic earthworms, while endogeic earthworms appeared to avoid feeding at the soil surface. Moreover, it was found that the inversion and the annelid effects did not interact in an experimental setting where soil inversion is carried out in a form without detracting or impairing the annelids directly.
Authors/Creators: | Engell, Ilka and Linsler, Deborah and Schrader, Stefan and Taylor, Astrid and Ludwig, Bernard and Potthoff, Martin | ||||||
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Title: | Crop residue displacement by soil inversion: Annelid responses and their impact on carbon and nitrogen dynamics in a lab-based mesocosm study | ||||||
Series Name/Journal: | Applied Soil Ecology | ||||||
Year of publishing : | 2021 | ||||||
Volume: | 167 | ||||||
Article number: | 104151 | ||||||
Number of Pages: | 10 | ||||||
Publisher: | ELSEVIER | ||||||
ISSN: | 0929-1393 | ||||||
Language: | English | ||||||
Publication Type: | Research article | ||||||
Article category: | Scientific peer reviewed | ||||||
Version: | Published version | ||||||
Copyright: | Creative Commons: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 | ||||||
Full Text Status: | Public | ||||||
Subjects: | (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 4 Agricultural Sciences > 401 Agricultural, Forestry and Fisheries > Soil Science | ||||||
Keywords: | Carbon dioxide, Microbial biomass, Nitrous oxide, Annelida, Soil organic carbon, Stable isotopes | ||||||
URN:NBN: | urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-p-113569 | ||||||
Permanent URL: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-p-113569 | ||||||
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ID Code: | 25361 | ||||||
Faculty: | NJ - Fakulteten för naturresurser och jordbruksvetenskap | ||||||
Department: | (NL, NJ) > Dept. of Ecology (S) > Dept. of Ecology | ||||||
Deposited By: | SLUpub Connector | ||||||
Deposited On: | 16 Sep 2021 11:25 | ||||||
Metadata Last Modified: | 16 Sep 2021 11:31 |
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