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Distribution of soil nutrients and erodibility factor under different soil types in an erosion region of Southeast China

BACKGROUND: Soil erosion can affect the distribution of soil nutrients, which restricts soil productivity. However, it is still a challenge to understand the response of soil nutrients to erosion under different soil types. METHODS: The distribution of soil nutrients, including soil organic carbon (...

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Autores principales: Liu, Man, Han, Guilin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8214394/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34178480
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11630
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description BACKGROUND: Soil erosion can affect the distribution of soil nutrients, which restricts soil productivity. However, it is still a challenge to understand the response of soil nutrients to erosion under different soil types. METHODS: The distribution of soil nutrients, including soil organic carbon (SOC), soil organic nitrogen (SON), and soil major elements (expressed as Al(2)O(3), CaO, Fe(2)O(3), K(2)O, Na(2)O, MgO, TiO(2), and SiO(2)), were analyzed in the profiles from yellow soils, red soils, and lateritic red soils in an erosion region of Southeast China. Soil erodibility K factor calculated on the Erosion Productivity Impact Calculator (EPIC) model was used to indicate erosion risk of surface soils (0∼30 cm depth). The relationships between these soil properties were explored by Spearman’s rank correlation analysis, further to determine the factors that affected the distribution of SOC, SON, and soil major elements under different soil types. RESULTS: The K factors in the red soils were significantly lower than those in the yellow soils and significantly higher than those in the lateritic red soils. The SON concentrations in the deep layer of the yellow soils were twice larger than those in the red soils and lateritic red soils, while the SOC concentrations between them were not significantly different. The concentrations of most major elements, except Al(2)O(3) and SiO(2), in the yellow soils, were significantly larger than those in the red soils and lateritic red soils. Moreover, the concentrations of major metal elements positively correlated with silt proportions and SiO(2) concentrations positively correlated with sand proportions at the 0∼80 cm depth in the yellow soils. Soil major elements depended on both soil evolution and soil erosion in the surface layer of yellow soils. In the yellow soils below the 80 cm depth, soil pH positively correlated with K(2)O, Na(2)O, and CaO concentrations, while negatively correlated with Fe(2)O(3) concentrations, which was controlled by the processes of soil evolution. The concentrations of soil major elements did not significantly correlate with soil pH or particle distribution in the red soils and lateritic red soils, likely associated with intricate factors. CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that soil nutrients and soil erodibility K factor in the yellow soils were higher than those in the lateritic red soils and red soils. The distribution of soil nutrients is controlled by soil erosion and soil evolution in the erosion region of Southeast China.
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spelling pubmed-82143942021-06-25 Distribution of soil nutrients and erodibility factor under different soil types in an erosion region of Southeast China Liu, Man Han, Guilin PeerJ Ecosystem Science BACKGROUND: Soil erosion can affect the distribution of soil nutrients, which restricts soil productivity. However, it is still a challenge to understand the response of soil nutrients to erosion under different soil types. METHODS: The distribution of soil nutrients, including soil organic carbon (SOC), soil organic nitrogen (SON), and soil major elements (expressed as Al(2)O(3), CaO, Fe(2)O(3), K(2)O, Na(2)O, MgO, TiO(2), and SiO(2)), were analyzed in the profiles from yellow soils, red soils, and lateritic red soils in an erosion region of Southeast China. Soil erodibility K factor calculated on the Erosion Productivity Impact Calculator (EPIC) model was used to indicate erosion risk of surface soils (0∼30 cm depth). The relationships between these soil properties were explored by Spearman’s rank correlation analysis, further to determine the factors that affected the distribution of SOC, SON, and soil major elements under different soil types. RESULTS: The K factors in the red soils were significantly lower than those in the yellow soils and significantly higher than those in the lateritic red soils. The SON concentrations in the deep layer of the yellow soils were twice larger than those in the red soils and lateritic red soils, while the SOC concentrations between them were not significantly different. The concentrations of most major elements, except Al(2)O(3) and SiO(2), in the yellow soils, were significantly larger than those in the red soils and lateritic red soils. Moreover, the concentrations of major metal elements positively correlated with silt proportions and SiO(2) concentrations positively correlated with sand proportions at the 0∼80 cm depth in the yellow soils. Soil major elements depended on both soil evolution and soil erosion in the surface layer of yellow soils. In the yellow soils below the 80 cm depth, soil pH positively correlated with K(2)O, Na(2)O, and CaO concentrations, while negatively correlated with Fe(2)O(3) concentrations, which was controlled by the processes of soil evolution. The concentrations of soil major elements did not significantly correlate with soil pH or particle distribution in the red soils and lateritic red soils, likely associated with intricate factors. CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that soil nutrients and soil erodibility K factor in the yellow soils were higher than those in the lateritic red soils and red soils. The distribution of soil nutrients is controlled by soil erosion and soil evolution in the erosion region of Southeast China. PeerJ Inc. 2021-06-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8214394/ /pubmed/34178480 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11630 Text en ©2021 Liu et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
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Liu, Man
Han, Guilin
Distribution of soil nutrients and erodibility factor under different soil types in an erosion region of Southeast China
title Distribution of soil nutrients and erodibility factor under different soil types in an erosion region of Southeast China
title_full Distribution of soil nutrients and erodibility factor under different soil types in an erosion region of Southeast China
title_fullStr Distribution of soil nutrients and erodibility factor under different soil types in an erosion region of Southeast China
title_full_unstemmed Distribution of soil nutrients and erodibility factor under different soil types in an erosion region of Southeast China
title_short Distribution of soil nutrients and erodibility factor under different soil types in an erosion region of Southeast China
title_sort distribution of soil nutrients and erodibility factor under different soil types in an erosion region of southeast china
topic Ecosystem Science
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8214394/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34178480
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11630
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