The storm runoff management strategy based on agricultural ditch nutrient loss characteristics in Erhai Lake, China.

Initial flush management is an effective measure to control non-point source pollution (NPSP) in storm runoff. However, determining the parameter of the initial flush in different areas may pose challenges in storm runoff management strategies. To address this issue, Erhai Lake in China, Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, was selected as an example for the study.

Long-term cattle manure addition enhances soil-available phosphorus fractions in subtropical open-field rotated vegetable systems.

Introduction: Evaluation of the changes in phosphorus (P) fractions (various P forms) and their availability at different soil layers is critical for enhancing P resource use efficiency, mitigating subsequent environmental pollution, and establishing a suitable manure application strategy. However, changes in P fractions at different soil layers in response to cattle manure (M), as well as a combined cattle manure and chemical fertilizer application (M+F), remain unclear in open-field vegetable systems. If the amount of annual P input remains the same, identifying which treatment would cause a higher phosphate fertilizer use efficiency (PUE) and vegetable yield while simultaneously reducing the P surplus is especially warranted.

The reactive nitrogen loss and GHG emissions from a maize system after a long-term livestock manure incorporation in the North China Plain.

The use of livestock manure as a substitution for synthetic nitrogen (N) fertilizers is recommended to improve the sustainable use of manure nutrients and alleviate the adverse impacts of synthetic N fertilizers on the environment. A thorough understanding of how such substitutions affect reactive N losses and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in cereal production systems in the North China Plain (a main livestock production region in China), is needed to achieve an environmental friendly and sustainable production. Based on a long-term field experiment, different manure/chemical fertilizer treatments were designed, i.

Temporal-spatial variations and influencing factors of nitrogen in the shallow groundwater of the nearshore vegetable field of Erhai Lake, China.

Nitrogen export from the nearshore vegetable field of Erhai Lake seriously threatens the water quality of Erhai Lake, which is the second largest highland freshwater lake in Yunnan Province, China. Among the nitrogen flows into Erhai Lake, shallow groundwater migration is a major pathway. The nitrogen variation and influencing factors in the shallow groundwater of the nearshore vegetable field of Erhai Lake are not well documented.

Cropping systems affect paddy soil organic carbon and total nitrogen stocks (in rice-garlic and rice-fava systems) in temperate region of southern China.

The accumulation of soil organic carbon (SOC) in agricultural soils is critical to food security and climate change. However, there is still limited information on the dynamic trend of SOC sequestration following changes in cropping systems. Paddy soils, typical of temperate region of southern China, have a large potential for carbon (C) sequestration and nitrogen (N) fixation.

[Effect of NO3(-)-N on CH4 emission during denitrification in subtropical soils].

Methane production and emission were investigated in 45 subtropical soil samples, collected from different land use and derived from different soil parent materials in Jiangxi province, by incubating flooded soil slurries in a closed system under N2 gas in the headspace after treatment with or without NO3(-)-N (200 mg x kg(-1)) for 28 days at 30 degrees C. The results indicated that the content and availability of soil organic C were the dominant factors influencing CH4 production and emission whether NO3(-)-N was added or not under this anaerobic incubation condition. Methane emission was higher in the soils derived from granite in the unamended soils and used for rice cultivation in the amended soils.