An assessment of response of soil-based indicators to nitrogen fertilizer across four tropical eucalyptus plantations

作     者：D.S.Mendham S.Kumaraswamy K.V.Sankaran K.Smitha John T.S.Grove A.M.O’Connell S.J.Rance M.P.Sujatha 

作者机构：CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems Kerala Forest Research Institute 

出 版 物：《Journal of Forestry Research》 (林业研究（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2009年第20卷第3期

页      面：237-242,286页

核心收录：

学科分类：0830[工学-环境科学与工程（可授工学、理学、农学学位）] 0907[农学-林学] 0829[工学-林业工程] 09[农学] 0903[农学-农业资源与环境] 0901[农学-作物学] 090301[农学-土壤学] 

基　　金：supported by the Australian Centrefor International Agricultural Research 

主　　题：nitrogen mineralization Eucalyptus grandis Eucalyptus tereticornis N fertilization site management productivity improvement 

摘      要：Low nitrogen (N) availability often results in reduced productivity of Eucalyptus plantations. We studied the response of four eucalyptus plantations (two plantations of E. tereticornis on the coastal lowlands, and two plantations of E. grandis in the upland region of the Western Ghats, Kerala, India) to N addition and related this response to seasonal N mineralization as well as other indices of N availability, in order to examine the utility of soil based indicators of N mineralization for predicting the response of eucalyptus growth to added N fertilizer. Several biochemical indicators were examined for their capacity to predict response to N fertilizer, including total soil N, soil C:N ratio, and N released during anaerobic and aerobic incubation. Results show that nitrogen fertilizer addition increased productivity across the 4 sites from 7% to 70%, N released during an aerobic incubation had the highest correlation with fertilizer response across the 4 sites (R2=0.92, p0.01), and that Modelled seasonal soil N mineralisation was a poorer predictor of fertilizer response than N released during an aerobic incubation. Whilst some of these indicators are promising, they need wider validation and testing before they could be routinely applied.