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On-site soil dislocation and localized CNP degradation: the real erosion risk faced by sloped cropland in northeastern China
Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment ( IF 6.0 ) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 , DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2020.107088 Yaxian Hu , Xianwen Li , Shengli Guo , Xin Gao , Xiaojing Ou , Baoyuan Liu
Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment ( IF 6.0 ) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 , DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2020.107088 Yaxian Hu , Xianwen Li , Shengli Guo , Xin Gao , Xiaojing Ou , Baoyuan Liu
Abstract Erosion-induced land degradation in the northeastern China, the Chinese breadbasket, has become one of the biggest risks to national food security. Apart from depleting topsoil, incising gullies, and waterlogging depositional sites, slope-scale erosion also spatially redistributes soil nutrients and introduces localized soil degradation. This requires to systematically understanding topography-specific spatial distribution patterns of eroded soil compositions and the relative abundance of each nutrient at different topographic settings. In this study, topsoil at predetermined space intervals were collected from two adjacent but differently curved segments (convex vs. concave) on a sloped cropland in northeastern China. The spatial distributions of topsoil soil organic carbon (SOC), total nitrogen (TN), total phosphorous (TP), and the variations of their atomic ratios were compared. Our results show that: (1) Compared with the nearby undisturbed tree rows, the SOC and TN was halved on the investigated slope, demonstrating great degradation since the land use conversion. (2) The spatial distribution of topsoil nutrients were evidently topography specific, with the SOC being comparable at slope summit, but declining from 27.57 to 4.72 g kg−1 (depletion ratio of 0.17) at the convex segment meanwhile accumulating up to 34.71 g kg−1 (enrichment ratio of 1.26) at the concave segment. Similar but more deviated spatial patterns were also observed on the TN and TP. (3) The atomic ratios of C:N:P also differed as the slope curvatures diverted, by being more variable from 51:3:1 to 105:6:1 along the convex segment but rather stable between 74:5:1 and 89:5:1 along the concave segment. (4) The lower content of SOC and the heavier δ13C along the convex segment suggest more advanced mineralization of C and thus greater susceptibility of C-limitation. Meanwhile, the slightly lower C:N ratios and the greater δ15N along the concave segment indicate greater stability of C, more advanced mineralization of N and thus likely a N-limited process. Overall, our findings demonstrate the controlling influences of minor geomorphic features to on-site soil dislocation and localized degradation at slope scale. Apart from general soil conservation measures, topography-specific practices must also be integrated to local land use policy to effectively target localized land degradation.
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