Response of microbial activities in soil to various organic and mineral amendments as an indicator of soil quality

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/62156489:43310/19:43916261 RIV/26296080:_____/19:N0000082

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy9090485" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy9090485</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agronomy9090485" target="_blank" >10.3390/agronomy9090485</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Response of microbial activities in soil to various organic and mineral amendments as an indicator of soil quality

Original language description

The presented paper deals with the analysis of potential di_erences between organic waste compost (CBD), vermicompost (CVER) and mineral fertilizer (MF; 27% of N) applications a_ecting the quality of arable soil by influencing microbial activity therein. The selected types of compost represent alternatives to conventional organic fertilizers, which are, however, not available to Czech and Slovak farmers in su_cient amounts. Their mutual comparison and the comparison with organic fertilizers aim to provide farmers further information about their influence on arable land and thus to give them the possibility of deciding on the most suitable amendments. To demonstrate the e_ect of these amendments, six variants were prepared: one without the addition of fertilizers; two variants with the addition of 40 Mg/ha of CVER and CBD; one variant with the addition of double dosed CVER (80 Mg/ha), and the remaining two variants were fertilized only with MF (0.22 Mg/ha) and with the combination of CVER (0.20 Mg/ha) and MF (0.11 Mg/ha). Substrate induced respiration (SIR), basal respiration (BS), microbial carbon (Cmic) and enzymatic activities (hydrolysis of fluorescein diacetate-FDA, dehydrogenase activity-DHA, and phosphatase activity-PA) were used to evaluate the e_ect of CBD, CVER and MF application on the soil quality. Both organic and mineral amendments a_ected BS and SIR. The highest BS and SIR rates were found in variants with compost application (CVER and CBD). All variants treated with the mineral fertilizer showed the lowest level of enzyme activities; lower by about 30% in comparison with variants where CVER, CBD and the combination of MF and CVER were applied. We found insignificant di_erences between the individual types of compost. More importantly, we compared the situation at the beginning of the experiment and after its end. It was found that the application of mineral fertilizers automatically led to the deterioration of all enzymatic parameters, on average by more than 25%, as compared with the situation at the beginning of the experiment. However, when the mineral fertilizer dose was supplemented with organic amendments (CVER), this negative e_ect was eliminated or significantly reduced. Furthermore, both composts (CVER and CBD) positively a_ected plant biomass production, which reached a level of production enhanced by the MF. Results clearly showed that the application of both compost types could be used to improve soil quality in agriculture.

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

40101 - Agriculture

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Agronomy

ISSN

2073-4395

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

9

Issue of the periodical within the volume

9

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

485

UT code for WoS article

000487728800019

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85071472105