Changes in soil organic carbon and nitrogen after 47 years with different tillage, stubble and fertiliser management in a Vertisol of north-eastern Australia
K. L. Page
A D , R. C. Dalal A , S. H. Reeves B , W. J. Wang A B , Somasundaram Jayaraman B C and Y. P. Dang A
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A School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Qld 4072, Australia.
B Department of Environment and Science, Dutton Park, Qld 4102, Australia.
C ICAR-Indian Institute of Soil Science, Bhopal, 462038, Madhya Pradesh, India.
D Corresponding author. Email: kathryn.page@uq.edu.au
Soil Research 58(4) 346-355 https://doi.org/10.1071/SR19314
Submitted: 1 November 2019 Accepted: 2 March 2020 Published: 1 April 2020
Abstract
No-till (NT) farming has been widely adopted to assist in reducing erosion, lowering fuel costs, conserving soil moisture and improving soil physical, chemical and biological characteristics. Improvements in soil characteristics are often driven by the greater soil organic matter accumulation (as measured by soil organic carbon (SOC)) in NT compared to conventional tillage (CT) farming systems. However, to fully understand the effect of NT it is important to understand temporal changes in SOC by monitoring over an extended period. We investigated the long-term effect of NT and stubble retention (SR) on changes in SOC and total soil nitrogen (STN) using results from an experiment that has been running for 50 years in a semi-arid subtropical region of north-eastern Australia. In this experiment, the effects of tillage (CT vs NT), residue management (stubble burning (SB) vs SR), and nitrogen (N) fertiliser (0 and 90 kg-N ha–1) were measured in a balanced factorial experiment on a Vertisol (Ustic Pellusert). The use of NT, SR and N fertiliser generally improved SOC (by up to 12.8%) and STN stocks (by up to 31.7%) in the 0–0.1 m layer relative to CT, SB and no N fertiliser, with the greatest stocks observed where all three treatments were used in combination. However, declines in SOC (up to 20%) and STN (up to 25%) occurred in all treatments over the course of the experiment, indicating that changes in management practices were unable to prevent a loss of soil organic matter over time in this farming system. However, the NT and SR treatments did lose less SOC than CT and SB treatments, and SR also reduced STN loss. The δ13C analysis of samples collected in 2008 and 2015 highlighted that crop residues have significantly contributed to SOC stocks at the site and that their contribution is increasing over time.
Additional keywords: nitrogen fertiliser, no-tillage, soil total nitrogen, stubble retention, sustainable soil management.
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