Distribution of nitrogen pools in the soil profile of undisturbed and reseeded grasslands

Biology and Fertility of Soils

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 356-362

  Bhogal, A ^a   Murphy, D V ^b   Fortune, S ^b   Shepherd, M A ^a   Hatch, D J ^c   Jarvis, S C ^c   Gaunt, J L ^b   Goulding, K W T ^b  

^a ADAS BOXWORTH   (United Kingdom)

^b ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cultivation; Grassland; Mineral nitrogen; Potentially mineralisable nitrogen; Soluble organic nitrogen

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; GRASSLAND; MINERALIZATION; NITROGEN; SOIL; UNITED KINGDOM;

GRASSLAND; NITROGEN; SOIL CHEMISTRY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0033979129     PISSN: 01782762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003740050016     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. 15N mirror image study with leucine and glycine. Soil Biol Biochem 29:101-108
2. Beard GR, Cope DW, Jones RJA, Palmer RC, Whitfield WAD (1986) Soils of Worcester and the Malverns District. Memoirs of the Soil Survey of Great Britain
3. Cabrera ML, Beare MH (1993) Alkaline persulphate oxidation for determining total nitrogen in microbial biomass extracts. Soil Sci Soc Am J 57:1007-1012
4. Cassman KG, Munns DN (1980) Nitrogen mineralisation as affected by soil moisture, temperature and depth. Soil Sci Soc Am J 44:1233-1237
5. Emmett BA, Anderson JM, Hornung M (1991) The controls on dissolved nitrogen losses following two intensities of harvesting in a Sitka spruce forest (N. Wales). For Ecol Manage 41:65-80
6. FAO (1990) FAO-UNESCO soil map of the world, vol I, revised legend. World Soil Resources Report no. 60. UNESCO, Paris
7. Hadas A, Feigenbaum S, Feigin A. Portnoy R (1986) Distribution of nitrogen forms and availability indices in profiles of differently managed soil types. Soil Sci Soc Am J 50:308-313
8. Harrod T (1981) The soils of North Wyke and Rowden. Technical report. Soil Survey of England and Wales,
9. Hassink J (1992) Effects of soil texture and structure on carbon and nitrogen mineralisation in grassland soils. Biol Fertil Soils 14:126-134
10. Hatch DJ, Jarvis SC, Rook AJ, Bristow AW (1997) Ionic contents of leachate from grassland soils: a comparison between ceramic suction cup samples and drainage. Soil Use Manage 13:68-74
11. Jarvis SC, Stockdale EA, Shepherd MA, Powlson DS (1996) Nitrogen mineralisation in temperate agricultural soils: processes and measurement. Adv Agron 57:187-235
12. Jensen LS, Mueller T, Magid J, Nielsen NE (1997) Temporal variation of C and N mineralisation, microbial biomass and extractable organic pools in soil after oilseed rape straw incorporation in the field. Soil Biol Biochem 29:1043-1055
13. Keeney DR (1982) Nitrogen-availability indices. Page AL, Miller RH, Keeney DR (eds) Methods of soil analysis, part 2. Chemical and microbiological properties. American Society of Agronomy, Madison, Wis., USA, pp 199-244
14. McNeill AM, Sparling GP, Murphy DV, Braunberger P, Fillery IRP (1998) Changes in extractable and microbial C, N and P in a western Australian wheatbelt soil following simulated summer rainfall. Aust J Soil Res 36:841-854
15. Murphy DV, Fortune S, Wakefield JA, Stockdale EA, Poulton PR, Webster CP, Wilmer WS, Goulding KWT, Gaunt JL (1999) Assessing the importance of soluble organic nitrogen in agricultural soils. Wilson W (ed) Managing risks of nitrates to humans and the environment. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Chemistry. September 1997. Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge (in press)
16. Patra AK, Jarvis SC, Hatch DJ (1998) Nitrogen mineralisation in soil layers, soil particles and macro-organic matter under grassland. Biol Fertil Soils 27:
17. Qualls RG, Haines BL (1991) Geochemistry of dissolved organic nutrients in water percolating through a forest ecosystem. Soil Sci Soc Am J 55:1112-1123
18. Qualls RG, Haines BL, Swank, WT (1991) Fluxes of dissolved organic nutrients and humic substances in a deciduous forest. Ecology 72:254-266
19. Shepherd MA, Stockdale EA, Powlson DS, Jarvis SC (1996) The influence of organic nitrogen mineralisation on the management of agricultural systems in the UK. Soil Use Manage 12:76-85
20. Silgram M, Shepherd MA (1999) The effects of cultivation on soil nitrogen mineralization. Adv Soil Sci 65:267-311
21. Soudi B, Sbai A, Chiang CN (1990) Nitrogen mineralisation in semiarid soils of Morocco: rate constant variation with depth. Soil Sci Soc Am J 54:756-761
22. Stockdale EA, Rees RM (1994) Relationships between biomass nitrogen and nitrogen extracted by other nitrogen-availability methods. Soil Biol Biochem 26:1213-1220
23. Verberne ELH, Hassink J, Willigen P de, Goot JJR, Van Veen JA (1990) Modelling organic matter dynamics in different soils. Neth J Soil Sci 38:221-238
24. Wang FL, Bettany JR (1994) Carbon and nitrogen losses from undisturbed soil columns under short-term flooding conditions. Can J Soil Sci 75:333-341
25. Whitmore AP, Bradbury NJ, Johnson PA (1992) Potential contribution of ploughed grassland to nitrate leaching. Agric Ecol Env 39:221-233
26. Woods LE (1989) Active organic matter distribution in the surface 15 cm of undisturbed and cultivated soil. Biol Fertil Soils 8:271-278
27. Yu ZS, Northup RR, Dahlgren RA (1994) Determination of dissolved organic nitrogen using persulphate oxidation and conductimetric quantification of nitrate-nitrogen. Commun Soil Sci Plant Anal 25:3161-3169