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DOI 10.1080/03650340.2012.704548
Title (Primary) Effect of mineral and organic fertilization on crop yield, nitrogen uptake, carbon and nitrogen balances, as well as soil organic carbon content and dynamics: results from 20 European long-term field experiments of the twenty-first century
Author Körschens, M.; Albert, E.; Armbruster, M.; Barkusky, D.; Baumecker, M.; Behle-Schalk, L.; Bischoff, R.; Čergan, Z.; Ellmer, FF.; Herbst, F.; Hoffmann, S.; Hofmann, B.; Kismanyoky, T.; Kubat, J.; Kunzova, E.; Lopez-Fando, C.; Merbach, I.; Merbach, W.; Pardor, M.T.; Rogasik, J.; Rühlmann, J.; Spiegel, H.; Schulz, E.; Tajnsek, A.; Toth, Z.; Wegener, H.; Zorn, W.
Source Titel Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science
Year 2013
Department BZF; BOOEK
Volume 59
Issue 8
Page From 1017
Page To 1040
Language englisch
Keywords long-term experiments, crop yields, nitrogen uptake, soil organic carbon, carbon and nitrogen balances
UFZ wide themes RU1
Abstract

Assembled results from 20 European long-term experiments (LTE), mainly from the first decade of the twenty-first century, are presented. The included LTEs from 17 sites are the responsibility of institutional members of the International Working Group of Long-term Experiments in the IUSS. Between the sites, average annual temperatures differ between 8.1 and 15.3°C, annual precipitation between 450 and 1400 mm, and soil clay contents between 3 and 31%. On average of 350 yield comparisons, combined mineral and organic fertilization resulted in a 6% yield benefit compared with mineral fertilization alone; in the case of winter wheat, the smallest effect was 3%, the largest effect, seen with potatoes, was 9%. All unfertilized treatments are depleted in soil organic carbon (SOC), varying between 0.36 and 2.06% SOC. The differences in SOC in unfertilized plots compared with the respective plots with combined mineral (NPK) and organic (10 t ha−1 farmyard manure) fertilization range between 0.11 and 0.72%, with an average of 0.3% (corresponding to 15 t ha−1). Consequently, the use of arable soils for carbon sequestration is limited and of low relevance and merely depleted soils can temporarily accumulate carbon up to their optimum C content.

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Körschens, M., Albert, E., Armbruster, M., Barkusky, D., Baumecker, M., Behle-Schalk, L., Bischoff, R., Čergan, Z., Ellmer, FF., Herbst, F., Hoffmann, S., Hofmann, B., Kismanyoky, T., Kubat, J., Kunzova, E., Lopez-Fando, C., Merbach, I., Merbach, W., Pardor, M.T., Rogasik, J., Rühlmann, J., Spiegel, H., Schulz, E., Tajnsek, A., Toth, Z., Wegener, H., Zorn, W. (2013):
Effect of mineral and organic fertilization on crop yield, nitrogen uptake, carbon and nitrogen balances, as well as soil organic carbon content and dynamics: results from 20 European long-term field experiments of the twenty-first century
Arch. Agron. Soil Sci. 59 (8), 1017 - 1040 10.1080/03650340.2012.704548