Acta Agriculturae Zhejiangensis ›› 2025, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (2): 447-455.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.20230636

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Characteristics of phosphorus accumulation and critical value of phosphorus leaching in vegetable soils of Hangzhou Bay, China

LI Dan1(), LOU Ling2, ZHANG Mingkui3, YUAN Hangjie1, WANG Jingwen1,*()   

  1. 1. Hangzhou Agricultural Technology Extension Center(Hangzhou Plant Protection Plant Inspection Center), Hangzhou 310020, China
    2. Agricultural Ecology and Plant Protection Service Station of Yuhang District, Hangzhou City, Hangzhou 311113, China
    3. College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
  • Received:2023-05-15 Online:2025-02-25 Published:2025-03-20
  • Contact: WANG Jingwen

Abstract:

The soils of vegetable fields in the Hangzhou Bay has high sand content, low clay content and weak nutrient retention capacity. In order to understand the accumulation characteristics and phosphorus leaching risk in the soil under long-term vegetable plantation in Hangzhou Bay, China, 12 soil profiles with different phosphorus accumulation and 136 surface soil samples were collected, the changes of available phosphorus, microbial biomass phosphorus content and phosphorus chemical forms in the soil profiles were identified, and the critical value of soil available phosphorus in the case of obvious phosphorus loss from soil was discussed. The results showed that the phosphorus accumulated in the soil profiles was mainly inorganic phosphorus, and more specifically, HCl extractable inorganic phosphorus. With the accumulation of phosphorus, the contents of available phosphorus and microbial biomass phosphorus in the soil increased, the proportion of water extractable inorganic phosphorus and NaHCO3 extractable inorganic phosphorus in the total phosphorus increased rapidly, yet the proportion of residual phosphorus decreased. The phosphorus in the soil samples exhibited obvious vertical migration characteristics. The accumulation of phosphorus weakened the adsorption capacity of soil to phosphorus. Application of organic fertilizers could increase the contents of soil available phosphorus and microbial biomass phosphorus. The risk of soil phosphorus loss in the study area was great. The critical available phosphorus content for soil phosphorus leaching was about 21 mg·kg-1, which was lower than that of other soils. This study suggested that the application amount of phosphate fertilizer should be controlled in the sandy coastal vegetable soils, and countermeasures regarding reasonal application of phosphorus fertilizer were put forward.

Key words: sandy coastal soil, Hangzhou Bay, phosphorus accumulation, phosphorus form, leaching threshold

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