The relationships between aggregate water stability and soil organic matter of slope land with different reclamation years in black soil region
ZHANG Xiaocun1,2, ZHENG Fenli3,4*, WANG Bin3, AN Juan4
(1 College of Tourism and Environment, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi′an 710062,Shaanxi, China; 2 Department of Urban Development and Management Engineering, Shangluo University, Shangluo 726000, Shaanxi, China; 3 College of Resources and Environment, Northwest A & F University, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China; 4 State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences & Ministry of Water Resources, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China)
Abstract:
The relationships between aggregate water stability (3~5 mm) and organic matter of top soil in slope land, black soil region of Northwest China, were studied by slow wetting method from the perspectives of different reclamation years, soil layers and landforms. The results showed that soil aggregate water stability decreases significantly with the declining of soil organic matter after reclamation, but 40 years later, the change trend of both becomes steady and gentle. The content of waterstable aggregate with >0.2 mm, and MWDsw value is notably related with the organic matter, and the correlative coefficients is 0.979 and 0.956(P<0.05). Water stability in the surface soil is much better than that of subsurface. It lies in the content of the organic matter in surface soil is higher than that in subsurface. The correlation coefficient of waterstable aggregates of >0.2 mm, >0.5 mm and MWD value with organic matter is 0.59, 0.51 and 0.56 respectively. The waterstable aggregate of surface soil in different landform presents a wavy change, and the change is not very regularly which is caused by the different power of soil erosion, movement, deposition in slope position. MWDsw value is notably related with the organic matter of subsurface soil under three conditions.
KeyWords:
aggregate water stability; soil organic matter; geomorphic position; black soil