Sulfur dynamics in sub-tropical soils of Australia as influenced by long-term cultivation

Plant and Soil

Volumn 402, Issue 1-2, 2016, Pages 211-219

  Kopittke, Peter M ^a   Dalal, Ram C ^a   Menzies, Neal W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biochemical mineralization; Biological mineralization; Cultivation; Sulfur

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BIOMINERALIZATION; CULTIVATION; KINETICS; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SUBTROPICAL REGION; SULFUR; WHEAT;

AUSTRALIA;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84953391723     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: 15735036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-015-2789-6     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Bell M, Lester D, Smith L, Want P (2012) Increasing complexity in nutrient management on clay soils in the northern grain belt – nutrient stratification and multiple nutrient limitations. In: Proceedings of 16th Australian Agronomy Conference (14–18 October 2012), Armidale, Australia
2. Bettany JR, Stewart JWB, Saggar S (1979) The nature and forms of sulfur in organic matter fractions of soils selected along an environmental gradient. Soil Sci Soc Am J 43:981–985
3. Bettany JR, Saggar S, Stewart JWB (1980) Comparison of the amounts and forms of sulfur in soil organic matter fractions after 65 years of cultivation. Soil Sci Soc Am J 44:70–75
4. Bhupinderpal S, Hedley MJ, Saggar S, Francis GS (2004) Chemical fractionation to characterize changes in sulphur and carbon in soil caused by management. Eur J Soil Sci 55:79–90
5. Dalal RC, Mayer RJ (1986a) Long-term trends in fertility of soils under continuous cultivation and cereal cropping in southern Queensland. 1. Overall changes in soil properties and trends in winter cereal yields. Aust J Soil Res 24:265–279
6. Dalal RC, Mayer RJ (1986b) Long-term trends in fertility of soils under continuous cultivation and cereal cropping in southern Queensland. 2. Total organic-carbon and its rate of loss from the soil-profile. Aust J Soil Res 24:281–292
7. Dang YP, Dalal RC, Buck SR, Harms B, Kelly R, Hochman Z, Schwenke GD, Biggs AJW, Ferguson NJ, Norrish S, Routley R, McDonald M, Hall C, Singh DK, Daniells IG, Farquharson R, Manning W, Speirs S, Grewal HS, Cornish P, Bodapati N, Orange D (2010) Diagnosis, extent, impacts, and management of subsoil constraints in the northern grains cropping region of Australia. Aust J Soil Res 48:105–119
8. David MB, Mitchell MJ (1987) Transformations of organic and inorganic sulfur: importance to sulfate flux in an Adirondack forest soil. JAPCA 37:39–44
9. David MB, McIsaac GF, Darmody RG, Omonode RA (2009) Long-term changes in mollisol organic carbon and nitrogen. J Environ Qual 38:200–211
10. Dentener F, Drevet J, Lamarque JF, Bey I, Eickhout B, Fiore AM, Hauglustaine D, Horowitz LW, Krol M, Kulshrestha UC, Lawrence M, Galy-Lacaux C, Rast S, Shindell D, Stevenson D, Van Noije T, Atherton C, Bell N, Bergman D, Butler T, Cofala J, Collins B, Doherty R, Ellingsen K, Galloway J, Gauss M, Montanaro V, Müller JF, Pitari G, Rodriguez J, Sanderson M, Solmon F, Strahan S, Schultz M, Sudo K, Szopa S, Wild O (2006) Nitrogen and sulfur deposition on regional and global scales: a multimodel evaluation. Glob Biogeochem Cycles 20:GB4003
11. Dick WA, Kost D, Chen L (2008) Availability of sulfur to crops from soil and other sources. In: Sulfur: a missing link between soils, crops, and nutrition. American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Soil Science Society of America, Madison, WI, pp 59–82
12. Donn MJ, Menzies NW (2005) The effect of ionic strength variation and anion competition on the development of nitrate accumulations in variable charge subsoils. Aust J Soil Res 43:43–50
13. Eriksen J 2008 Soil sulfur cycling in temperate agricultural systems. In: Sulfur: a missing link between soils, crops, and nutrition. American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Soil Science Society of America, Madison, WI, pp 25–44
14. Freney JR, Melville GE, Williams CH (1975) Soil organic matter fractions as sources of plant-available sulphur. Soil Biol Biochem 7:217–221
15. Ganeshamurthy AN, Sammi Reddy K (2000) Effect of integrated use of farmyard manure and sulphur in a soybean and wheat cropping system on nodulation, dry matter production and chlorophyll content of soybean on swell-shrink soils in central India. J Agron Crop Sci 185:91–97
16. Jackman RH (1964) Accumulation of organic matter in some New Zealand soils under permanent pasture. N Z J Agric Res 7:445–471
17. Langner J, Rodhe H (1991) A global three-dimensional model of the tropospheric sulfur cycle. J Atmos Chem 13:225–263
18. McGill WB, Cole CV (1981) Comparative aspects of cycling of organic C, N, S and P through soil organic matter. Geoderma 26:267–286
19. McLaren RG, Swift RS (1977) Changes in soil organic sulphur fractions due to the long term cultivation of soils. J Soil Sci 28:445–453
20. Möller A, Kaiser K, Kanchanakool N, Anecksamphant C, Jirasuktaveekul W, Maglinao A, Niamskul C, Zech W (2002) Sulfur forms in bulk soils and alkaline soil extracts of tropical mountain ecosystems in northern Thailand. Aust J Soil Res 40:161–175
21. Rayment GE, Lyons DJ (2011) Soil chemical methods: Australasia. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Australia, p 495
22. Schoenau JJ, Germida JJ (1992) Sulfur cycling in upland agricultural systems. In: Howarth RW (ed) Sulfur cycling on the continents. Wiley, New York, pp 261–277
23. Schoenau JJ, Malhi SS (2008) Sulfur forms and cycling processes in soil and their relationship to sulfur fertility. In: Sulfur: a missing link between soils, crops, and nutrition. American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Soil Science Society of America, Madison, WI, pp 1–10
24. Sims JR, Haby VA (1971) Simplified colorimetric determination of soil organic matter. Soil Sci 112:137–141
25. Soil Survey Staff (2003) Keys to soil taxonomy. United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, p 332
26. Solomon D, Lehmann J, Tekalign M, Fritzsche F, Zech W (2001) Sulfur fractions in particle-size separates of the sub-humid Ethiopian highlands as influenced by land use changes. Geoderma 102:41–59
27. Srinivasarao C, Wani SP, Sahrawat KL, Rego TJ, Pardhasaradhi G (2008) Zinc, boron and sulphur deficiencies are holding back the potential of rainfed crops in semi-arid India: experiences from participatory watershed management. Int J Plant Prod 2:89–99
28. Stanford G, Smith SJ (1972) Nitrogen mineralization potentials of soils. Soil Sci Soc Am J 36:465–472
29. Tiessen H, Stewart JWB, Bettany JR (1982) Cultivation effects on the amounts and concentration of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus in grassland soils. Agron J 74:831–835
30. Walker T, Thapa B, Adams A (1959) Studies on soil organic matter. 3. Accumulation of carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, organic and total phosphorus in improved grassland soils. Soil Sci 87:135–140
31. Wang J, Solomon D, Lehmann J, Zhang X, Amelung W (2006) Soil organic sulfur forms and dynamics in the Great Plains of North America as influenced by long-term cultivation and climate. Geoderma 133:160–172
32. Wang Y, Tu C, Cheng L, Li C, Gentry LF, Hoyt GD, Zhang X, Hu S (2011) Long-term impact of farming practices on soil organic carbon and nitrogen pools and microbial biomass and activity. Soil Tillage Res 117:8–16
33. Zhao F, Wu J, McGrath S (1996) Soil organic sulphur and its turnover. In: Piccolo A (ed) Humic substances in terrestrial ecosystems. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp 467–506