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Soil Organic Matter Alteration Velocity due to Land-Use Change: A Case Study under Conservation Agriculture

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  • Ádám Rieder

    (Earth Surface Science Institute, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK)

  • Balázs Madarász

    (Geographical Institute, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1112 Budapest, Hungary
    Department of Soil Science and Water Management, Szent István University Faculty of Horticultural Science, 1118 Budapest, Hungary)

  • Judit Alexandra Szabó

    (Geographical Institute, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1112 Budapest, Hungary)

  • Dóra Zacháry

    (Geographical Institute, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1112 Budapest, Hungary)

  • Anna Vancsik

    (Geographical Institute, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1112 Budapest, Hungary)

  • Marianna Ringer

    (Geographical Institute, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1112 Budapest, Hungary
    Faculty of Science, Eötvös Loránd University, 1117 Budapest, Hungary)

  • Zoltán Szalai

    (Geographical Institute, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1112 Budapest, Hungary
    Faculty of Science, Eötvös Loránd University, 1117 Budapest, Hungary)

  • Gergely Jakab

    (Geographical Institute, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1112 Budapest, Hungary
    Faculty of Science, Eötvös Loránd University, 1117 Budapest, Hungary)

Abstract

The cultivation of native forest soils usually triggers a decline in soil organic matter (SOM) and a deterioration of aggregates. Although switching to conservation tillage (CT) can supply SOM, little is known about the temporal resolution of this change. This study aims to quantify changes in soil organic carbon (SOC) content and SOM composition of the same soil under 14 years of CT, plowing tillage (PT), and native forest (NF). Plowing ameliorates the macroaggregate-mediated loss in SOC content, in both the fine fraction and the coarse particles. Decades of CT can significantly increase both the microaggregates and fine particles related to SOC content, whereas in the finest fraction, the volume of recalcitrant SOC increased the most, and reached the original value under NF. Continuous plowing triggered SOM molecular size increases in both aggregates and the fine fraction, whereas switching to CT restored the molecular SOM size of the fine fraction only. Therefore, this fraction can be changed, even in short periods. Water dissolved the largest and middle-sized molecules of SOM, which are mainly from macroaggregates. Even if aggregation did not increase due to turning to CT, the content of the larger molecules of SOM increased in this short time.

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  • Ádám Rieder & Balázs Madarász & Judit Alexandra Szabó & Dóra Zacháry & Anna Vancsik & Marianna Ringer & Zoltán Szalai & Gergely Jakab, 2018. "Soil Organic Matter Alteration Velocity due to Land-Use Change: A Case Study under Conservation Agriculture," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(4), pages 1-11, March.
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