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SOIL CARBON AND NITROGEN DYNAMICS IN DEGRADED SOILS RECLAIMED USING STABILIZED ORGANIC AMENDMENTS

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Last updated: 05 Jan 2025

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Soil Sciences and Agricultural Engineering

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Organic carbon (C) and nutrients in manure can enhance the quality of degraded soil if they are sequestered in the soil. This improvement could be facilitated by applying manure mixed with a high carbon material or by composting the manure. To identify labile and stable nitrogen (N) and carbon C fractions in degraded soil connected to different treatments, a lab incubation experiment was conducted. Treatments included lime plus mineral fertilizer, two levels of compost and two levels of manure combined with paper mill sludge to achieve C:N ratios of 20:1 and 30:1. The treatments were added to degraded soil and immediately incubated. Data revealed that using organic amendments instead of lime and fertilizer was more effective in creating large stable N and C fractions, proving that the N and C sequestered by both C:N adjustment techniques is much higher than the N and C pools linked to inorganic fertilizer. However, paper mill sludge and manure exhibited higher levels of microbial biomass, which could lead to improved long-term nutrient cycling. It doesn't seem that adding more paper mill sludge to raise the C:N ratio from 20:01 to 30:1 was beneficial. According to these findings, composting and mixed manure + paper mill sludge amendments were equally successful in creating stable N pools in degraded soil.

DOI

10.21608/jaesj.2024.283261.1163

Keywords

Degraded soil, Carbon, nitrogen, compost, Paper mill sludge

Authors

First Name

Emad

Last Name

Aboukila

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Affiliation

Department of Natural Resources and Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Damanhour University, Egypt

Email

emad@agr.dmu.edu.eg

City

Damanhour

Orcid

0000-0002-5206-9013

First Name

Ashlee

Last Name

Dere

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Affiliation

College of Agricultural Sciences, Penn State University, USA

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First Name

Richard

Last Name

Stehouwer

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-

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College of Agricultural Sciences, Penn State University, USA

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Volume

23

Article Issue

1

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46854

Issue Date

2024-04-01

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2024-04-16

Publish Date

2024-04-01

Page Start

104

Page End

126

Print ISSN

1687-1464

Online ISSN

2735-5098

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JAESJ_Volume 23_Issue 1_Pages 104-126.pdf

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Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

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https://jaesj.journals.ekb.eg/

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SOIL CARBON AND NITROGEN DYNAMICS IN DEGRADED SOILS RECLAIMED USING STABILIZED ORGANIC AMENDMENTS

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29 Dec 2024