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Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology ›› 2003, Vol. ›› Issue (12): 2241-2245.

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Soil nitrogen mineralization and its prediction in winter wheat-summer maize rotation system

JU Xiaotang, LIU Xuejun, ZHANG Fusuo   

  1. Department of Plant Nutrition, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100094, China
  • Received:2002-01-07 Revised:2002-05-04 Online:2003-12-15

Abstract: The mineralization of soil nitrogen in winter wheat summer maize growth season was studied with field experiment,and its prediction was made by interval leached aerial incubation combined with first order dynamic model. The results showed that the amount of soil mineralized nitrogen had a large variation among years and crops. The soil nitrogen mineralization was lower in winter wheat growth season than in summer maize growth season,resulted in the yield increment of summer maize being not significant with increasing nitrogen fertilization rate. The amount of soil mineralized nitrogen occupied 31%~60% of the total nitrogen uptake by winter wheat and 62%~108% by summer maize. It was understandable why crop yield (especially summer maize) was not significantly response to applied nitrogen fertilizer. The amount of soil mineralized nitrogen decreased with increasing soil nitrogen supply. The mineralization was positive in normal nitrogen supply range(0~300 kg N·hm-2). The first order dynamic model could only predict the whole trend of mineralization in growth season,but could not reflect its variation in some growth stages. The role of the model was still important in view of the prediction of nitrogen mineralization before sowing.

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