The Admont Grassland Experiment: 70 years of fertilizer application and its effects on soil and vegetation properties in an alluvial meadow managed under a three-cut régime

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60460709:41330/22:N0000126

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/science-of-the-total-environment/vol/808/suppl/C" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/science-of-the-total-environment/vol/808/suppl/C</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152081" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152081</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Admont Grassland Experiment: 70 years of fertilizer application and its effects on soil and vegetation properties in an alluvial meadow managed under a three-cut régime

Original language description

Fertilizer application is a widely used management technique for increasing forage production from agricultural grassland. Fertilization is also a key driver of changes in soil nutrient status and plant species composition of grassland as shown in many short-term studies. Results from long-term experiments can further improve understanding of plant-soil relationships and help with management recommendations for agricultural and environmental outcomes. We collected data from a long-term experiment on alluvial meadow (Admont Grassland Experiment, Austria; established 1946) with 24 fertilization treatments managed under a three-cut regime. Soil sampling in autumn 2015 and vegetation sampling in spring 2016 were conducted in seven selected treatments. Combinations of N (nitrogen 80 kg ha(-1)), P (phosphorus 35 kg ha(-1)) and K (potassium 100 kg ha(-1)) were applied annually and compared with a non-fertilized control. Treatments were: Control, N, P, K, NP, NK, PK and NPK fertilization.Long-term different fertilization affected soil pH and nutrient concentrations in the soil and plant species composition, but no significant effects on species richness were found. Short species (&lt;0.5 m height) prevailed in all treatments regardless of nutrient application, probably as a result of the three-cut defoliation. The dry matter biomass (DMB) yield in the Control was limited by N and P and synergisticly co-limited by N, P and K, and DMB yields of more than 5 t ha(-1) per year were achieved under nutrient combinations containing P (NP, PK, NPK) without loss of species richness. Results from the Admont Grassland Experiment show that the tested nutrient combinations significantly increased DMB yield and changed the species composition, but without significant effects on species richness. Long-term biomass yields of more than 5 t ha(-1) DMB per year can he achieved with any nutrient combination containing P without lass species richness in an alluvial meadow managed under a three-cut regime.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40106 - Agronomy, plant breeding and plant protection; (Agricultural biotechnology to be 4.4)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

ISSN

0048-9697

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

808

Issue of the periodical within the volume

FEB 20 2022

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

152081

UT code for WoS article

000740245600015

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85120745583