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Article

Characteristics of the Soil Organic Carbon Pool in Paddy Fields in Guangdong Province, South China

by
Lijiang Hu
1,2,
Ruikun Zeng
1,
Jianwu Yao
1,
Ziwei Liang
1,
Zhaobing Zeng
3,
Wenying Li
1,
Ronghui Wang
1,
Xianjiang Shu
3,
Yong Chen
1 and
Jianfeng Ning
1,*
1
Key Laboratory of Plant Nutrition and Fertilizer in South Region, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Nutrient Cycling and Farmland Conservation, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China
2
College of Resources and Environment, Yangtze University, Wuhan 430100, China
3
Center of Agricultural Environment and Cultivated Land Quality Protection of Guangdong Province (Center of Agricultural and Rural Investment Project of Guangdong Province), Guangzhou 510599, China
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Agriculture 2024, 14(9), 1457; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14091457
Submission received: 2 July 2024 / Revised: 15 August 2024 / Accepted: 19 August 2024 / Published: 26 August 2024
(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Soils)
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Abstract

To understand the role of paddy soils in the global carbon cycle, it is necessary to analyze the characteristics of the organic carbon pool at different soil depths. It was hypothesized that soil organic carbon fractions including labile organic carbon fraction I (LOCF-I), labile organic carbon fraction II (LOCF-II), and recalcitrant organic carbon (ROC) distributed differently within the soil profile. In this study, soil was collected from 27 typical rice fields in Guangdong Province, south China. The carbon fractions of the paddy field soils were analyzed and compared over a 0–60 cm depth profile. The relationship between carbon content and the physical and chemical properties of the soils was further analyzed using correlation analysis and structural equation modeling. The results showed that soil total organic carbon concentration in paddy fields was increased by 22.1% during the last four decades. In the soil organic carbon pool of 0–60 cm profile, the proportion of 67.31 to 70.31% in ROC, 21.75 to 22.06% in LOCF-I, and 7.7 to 10.63% was recorded, respectively, indicating that ROC was the dominating fraction. Storage of soil total organic carbon and fractions all decreased with the increase in soil depth. Correlation and path analysis showed that total nitrogen was the main driving factor affecting the soil carbon fractions, whereas pH and soil bulk density indirectly affected the content of carbon fractions by influencing total nitrogen. The results imply the importance of soil total nitrogen in paddy carbon management of rice cultivation.
Keywords: labile organic carbon pool; soil total nitrogen; soil texture; carbon fraction; soil bulk density labile organic carbon pool; soil total nitrogen; soil texture; carbon fraction; soil bulk density

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Hu, L.; Zeng, R.; Yao, J.; Liang, Z.; Zeng, Z.; Li, W.; Wang, R.; Shu, X.; Chen, Y.; Ning, J. Characteristics of the Soil Organic Carbon Pool in Paddy Fields in Guangdong Province, South China. Agriculture 2024, 14, 1457. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14091457

AMA Style

Hu L, Zeng R, Yao J, Liang Z, Zeng Z, Li W, Wang R, Shu X, Chen Y, Ning J. Characteristics of the Soil Organic Carbon Pool in Paddy Fields in Guangdong Province, South China. Agriculture. 2024; 14(9):1457. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14091457

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Hu, Lijiang, Ruikun Zeng, Jianwu Yao, Ziwei Liang, Zhaobing Zeng, Wenying Li, Ronghui Wang, Xianjiang Shu, Yong Chen, and Jianfeng Ning. 2024. "Characteristics of the Soil Organic Carbon Pool in Paddy Fields in Guangdong Province, South China" Agriculture 14, no. 9: 1457. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14091457

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Hu, L., Zeng, R., Yao, J., Liang, Z., Zeng, Z., Li, W., Wang, R., Shu, X., Chen, Y., & Ning, J. (2024). Characteristics of the Soil Organic Carbon Pool in Paddy Fields in Guangdong Province, South China. Agriculture, 14(9), 1457. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14091457

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