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Corn and Rice Cultivation Affect Soil Organic and Inorganic Carbon Storage through Altering Soil Properties in Alkali Sodic Soils, Northeast of China

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  • Jingjing Wang

    (Key Lab of Groundwater Resources and Environment, Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
    College of New Energy and Environment, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China)

  • Jie Tang

    (College of New Energy and Environment, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China)

  • Zhaoyang Li

    (College of New Energy and Environment, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China)

  • Wei Yang

    (College of New Energy and Environment, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China)

  • Ping Yang

    (College of New Energy and Environment, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China)

  • Yunke Qu

    (College of New Energy and Environment, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China)

Abstract

Soil organic carbon (SOC) and soil inorganic carbon (SIC) play essential roles in carbon cycling in terrestrial ecosystems; however, the effects of crop cultivation on them are still poorly understood, especially in alkali sodic soils widely distributed in semiarid regions. Alkali sodic soils from cornfields and paddies with cultivation years of 5, 15, and 25 were analyzed here to assess the response of soil properties and soil carbon pools to crop cultivation. Soil pH and exchangeable sodium percentages decrease in accordance with cultivation years, while enzyme activity (amylase, invertase, and catalase) shows a contrary trend. Soil pH and exchangeable sodium percentages are negatively correlated with SOC, but positively correlated with SIC. Redundancy analysis reveals an obvious relationship between SOC and invertase activity. The percentage of δ 13 C SOC found here is approximately –24.78‰ to –22.97‰ for cornfields and approximately –26.54‰ to –23.81‰ for paddies, suggesting that crop cultivation contributes to SOC sequestration and stocking, increasing with cultivation years. The percentage of δ 13 C SIC found here is approximately 1.90‰ to 3.73‰, proving that lithogenic inorganic carbon is the major SIC, where the stock decreases with increasing cultivation years. Significant total carbon stock loss is observed in cornfields, while it is preserved at 120 Mg ha −1 in paddies. We conclude here from the results that corn and rice cultivation reduce alkali sodic conditions in soil, thereby improving soil enzymes and favoring SOC stocking, but reducing SIC stocks.

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  • Jingjing Wang & Jie Tang & Zhaoyang Li & Wei Yang & Ping Yang & Yunke Qu, 2020. "Corn and Rice Cultivation Affect Soil Organic and Inorganic Carbon Storage through Altering Soil Properties in Alkali Sodic Soils, Northeast of China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(4), pages 1-16, February.
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