ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Soil Net Organic Nitrogen Mineralization
Kinetics in Response to Short- and Long-Term
Land-Use Conversion of Woodland
to Tea Fields
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Key Laboratory of Environment Change and Resources Use in Beibu Gulf Ministry of Education and Guangxi Key
Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Intelligent Simulation, Nanning Normal University, Nanning 530001, China
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College of Forestry, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
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Key Laboratory of Water-Saving Irrigation Engineering, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs,
Farmland Irrigation Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Xinxiang 453002, China
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School of Environment and Surveying Engineering, Suzhou University, Suzhou 234100, China
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School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Zhaoqing University, Zhaoqing 526061, China
Submission date: 2020-12-21
Final revision date: 2021-02-13
Acceptance date: 2021-03-08
Online publication date: 2021-09-08
Publication date: 2021-09-22
Corresponding author
Cong Wang
College of Forestry, Guangxi University, China
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2021;30(5):4475-4483
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ABSTRACT
In recent years, with growing demand for tea consumption, tea cultivation area in China has been
increasingly expanded, largely as a result of land-use conversion from woodland into tea field. Up to
now, however, soil net nitrogen mineralization kinetics in response to short-and long-term land-use
conversion of woodland to tea field remain unclear. Thus, a laboratory aerobic incubation test under
constant temperature in combination with a double-pool exponential model were conducted to explore
soil organic net nitrogen mineralization dynamics, and quantify soil net nitrogen mineralization kinetics
from different planting ages of tea fields (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 30 years old, named T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, and
T30 correspondingly) that converted from Masson pine woodland and adjacent woodland (W30, 30
years old). The results showed that land-use conversion exerted great influence on soil physicochemical
properties. Though there were no differences in soil total nitrogen (TSN) and total phosphorus (TP)
contents between W30 and TN, the TSN and TP were strongly affected by long-tern land-use conversion.
The double-pool exponential model fitted soil net nitrogen mineralization data well (R2adj ranged from
0.75 to 0.99; RMSE ranged from 0.18 to 0.99). The fitted parameter of soil active mineralization organic
nitrogen pool (N0) and soil active nitrogen mineralization rate constant (k1) for the woodland soil were
9.09±2.32 mg N kg-1 and 0.24±0.13 d-1, respectively. The N0 for the tea plantation within two years of the growth stage presented decreasing tendencies, which indicated that soil nitrogen mineralization
was stimulated after land-use conversion, and then showed increasing trends with the increasing
tea planting ages. Besides, two stepwise regression models developed in this study showed that
the nitrogen mineralized kinetic parameters could be well predicted by soil physicochemical properties.
In conclusion, soil net nitrogen mineralization is greatly influenced by agricultural land-use conversion
and planting ages.