Claim · model-written summary
Soil biogeochemical parameters were higher in summer than in spring and/or fall, except urease activity, ammonium-N, microbial biomass C and N, and FDA.
- Taxon
- prairie cordgrass
Sporobolus michauxianust0 - Outcome
- soil biogeochemical parameterse0
- Direction
- highere0
- Qualifier
- except urease activitye0
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Verbatim
t0“prairie cordgrass with kura clover”
e0“All soil biogeochemical parameters were higher during summer as compared to spring and/or fall, except urease activity, ammonium‐N, microbial biomass C and N, and fluorescein diacetate (FDA)”
Title
Intercropping prairie cordgrass with kura clover had little effect on soil biogeochemistry
Vaishnavi Varikuti; Sangeeta Bansal; Suite Xu; et al. Soil Science Society of America Journal 2024. doi:10.1002/saj2.20667
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Averaged over sampling times, PCG-KC had significantly higher beta-glucosidase activity and hot-water extractable organic N than PCG-0N.
- Intervention effect There was no significant difference between PCG-KC and N-fertilized PCG in beta-glucosidase activity and hot-water extractable organic N.
- Observation Cold-water extractable organic N was significantly lower than at the highest N rate.
- Observation Cold-water extractable organic N was not significantly different from PCG-0N and lower N rate treatments.
- Intervention effect Urease activity under PCG-KC was double that of PCG-0N and PCG-75N.
- Intervention effect FDA was higher in PCG-KC than in all monocultures.
- Observation No treatment effect was found on soil total C and N.
- Observation Soil total C and N decreased with depth.
- Observation The authors state that PCG-KC intercropping left lower residual reactive N in the soil.
- Observation The authors state that intercropping maintained biomass yield and quality on marginal lands.