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Effects of Different Soil Conservation Measures on Soil Organic Carbon Pools in Nectarine Orchard
  
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KeyWord:soil conservation measures; nectarine orchard; soil; organic carbon fractions
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WANG Yi-xiang Institute of Agricultural Ecology, Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Fuzhou Scientific Observing and Experimental Station of Agro- Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, P.R. China, Fuzhou 350013, China 
HUANG Yi-bin Institute of Agricultural Ecology, Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Fuzhou Scientific Observing and Experimental Station of Agro- Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, P.R. China, Fuzhou 350013, China 
YE Jing Institute of Agricultural Ecology, Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Fuzhou Scientific Observing and Experimental Station of Agro- Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, P.R. China, Fuzhou 350013, China 
WANG Cheng-ji Institute of Agricultural Ecology, Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Fuzhou Scientific Observing and Experimental Station of Agro- Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, P.R. China, Fuzhou 350013, China 
WENG Bo-qi Institute of Agricultural Ecology, Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Fuzhou Scientific Observing and Experimental Station of Agro- Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, P.R. China, Fuzhou 350013, China 
YING Zhao-yang Institute of Agricultural Ecology, Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Fuzhou Scientific Observing and Experimental Station of Agro- Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, P.R. China, Fuzhou 350013, China 
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Abstract:
      Soil organic carbon(C) is greatly influenced by soil management practices. Here we compared the effects of different soil conservation measures on soil organic C fractions in nectarine orchard. There were three soil management practices:slope plus clean tillage(T1), terrace plus clean tillage(T2) and terrace plus sod culture(Arachis pintoi mulching)(T3). Soil organic C content in T3 orchard was 46.5% higher than in T1 and 15.3% higher than in T2. Compared with T1, the contents of particulate organic C(POC), light fraction of organic C(LFOC), dissolved organic C(DOC) and microbial biomass C(MBC) increased by 17.6%, 60.4%, 6.5%and 42.2% in T2 orchard, and 30.9%, 112.7%, 24.3% and 45.3% in T3 , respectively. Resistant organic C content in T3 was over 39% greater than in T1 or T2. Our results show that sod culture would increase soil organic C and improve soil fertility.