Nitrogen dynamics in a nutrient-poor soil under mixed-species plantations of eucalypts and acacias
2017
Koutika, Lydie-Stella | Tchichelle, Sogni-Viviane | Mareschal, Louis | Epron, Daniel | Centre de Recherche sur la Durabilité et la Productivité des Plantations Industrielles (CRDPI) | Ecologie et Ecophysiologie Forestières [devient SILVA en 2018] (EEF) ; Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université de Lorraine (UL) | Ecologie fonctionnelle et biogéochimie des sols et des agro-écosystèmes (UMR Eco&Sols) ; Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro) | Intensfix Project ANR-2010-STRA004-03 ; CIRAD ; Ecofor, Allenvi and the french national research infrastructure ANAEE-F ; French National Research Agency through the Laboratory of Excellence ARBRE ANR-12-LABXARBRE-01 | ANR-10-STRA-0004,Intens&Fix,Intensification écologique des écosystèmes de plantations forestières. Modélisation biophysique et évaluation socio-économique de l'association d'espèces fixatrices d'azote(2010)
Introducing nitrogen-fixing species (NFS) in eucalypt plantations is a useful practice to compensate nitrogen loss at harvest, reduce fertilizer inputs, improve soil fertility and sustain forest productivity in low input systems.Nitrogen (N) and carbon (C) were evaluated in the active part of soil organic matter (SOM) i.e., the particulate organic matter (POM), which was obtained after soil (0-0.05 m) physical fractionation at the end of a first 7-year rotation (R1Y7) and at year 2 of a second rotation (R2Y2) in pure acacia (100A), pure eucalypt (100E) and mixed-species (50A50E) stands in an experimental plantation established on an Arenosol in the Congolese coastal plains. N concentration (in g kg(-1) of soil) was higher in coarse POM (cPOM, 4000-250 mu m) in 100A and 50A50E compared to 100E at 2YR2, while no difference was found in fine POM (fPOM, 250-50 gm) and in the organo-mineral fraction (OMF, < 50 mu m). N content in cPOM was more than 3 times higher at R2Y2 than at R1Y7. A slight increase was also observed in fPOM, while no difference was observed in OMF between R1Y7 and R2Y2. Lower C:N ratios in the two POM fractions in 100A and, to a lesser extent, in 50A50E compared to 100E suggests an improved soil N status after acacia trees have been introduced in eucalypt plantations.The lack of difference in N content of coarse POM between 100A and 50A50E at R1Y7, despite higher amount of N in the forest floor and N returning to the soil (harvest residues and litterfall) in 100A than in 50A50E, suggests a faster cycling of nitrogen under acacia than under eucalypt.
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