Next Article in Journal
Quantitative Assessment of Soil Erosion Based on CSLE and the 2010 National Soil Erosion Survey at Regional Scale in Yunnan Province of China
Next Article in Special Issue
Influence of Stone Bunds on Vegetation and Soil in an Area Reforested with Pinus engelmannii Carr. in the Forests of Durango, Mexico
Previous Article in Journal
A Measure of Nature Connectedness for Children and Adults: Validation, Performance, and Insights
Previous Article in Special Issue
Effects of Vegetation Restoration on Soil Bacterial Communities, Enzyme Activities, and Nutrients of Reconstructed Soil in a Mining Area on the Loess Plateau, China
 
Search for Articles:
Title / Keyword
Author / Affiliation
Journal
Article Type
 
 
Advanced Search
 
Section
Special Issue
Volume
Issue
Number
Page
Journals
Sustainability
Volume 11
Issue 12
10.3390/su11123251
sustainability-logo
Submit to this Journal Review for this Journal Edit a Special Issue
► Article Menu

Article Menu

share announcement thumb_up
...
textsms
...
Article

Soil Microbial Communities and Enzyme Activities after Long-Term Application of Inorganic and Organic Fertilizers at Different Depths of the Soil Profile

by
Ladislav Holík
1,2,
Lukáš Hlisnikovský
2,
Roman Honzík
2,
Josef Trögl
3,*,
Hana Burdová
3 and
Jan Popelka
3
1
Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic
2
Department of nutrition management, Crop Research Institute, 161 01 Prague, Czech Republic
3
Faculty of Environment, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, 400 96 Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Sustainability 2019, 11(12), 3251; https://doi.org/10.3390/su11123251
Received: 24 April 2019 / Revised: 24 May 2019 / Accepted: 3 June 2019 / Published: 12 June 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Management Practices Improving Biodiversity, Soil Parameters and Ecosystem Services of Sites Affected by Human Activities)
View Full-Text Download PDF
Browse Figures

Abstract

Fertilization is a key factor for sustaining productivity in agroecosystems. A long-term experiment in cambisol following periodical application of several types of fertilization has been running at the experimental site since 1954. In this study, we determined the impact of applied inorganic and/or organic fertilizers on the activity of soil enzymes and on the structure of microorganisms at depths of 0–30 cm and 30–60 cm. Single-factor comparison showed that use of inorganic and/or organic fertilizer had an insignificant effect on the activities of soil enzymes (at depths 0–30 cm and 30–60 cm) and also on the structure of microbial communities at both depths studied. Only soil respirations exhibited stimulation by combined fertilization. The results, irrespective of sampling depth (0–60 cm), showed that application of combined organic and inorganic fertilization stimulated the activity of glucosidases and use of inorganic fertilizer inhibited the activity of arylsulphatases. Respirations were stimulated by application of organic fertilizer and combined fertilization. Nevertheless, principal component analyses, which calculate with multidimensional data, revealed differences in samples treated by sole mineral fertilizer compared to other variants, especially in the lower layer. In general, our results indicate that use of combined fertilization may improve biological characteristics in deeper parts of soil profile and possibly increase biological activity in agroecosystems. View Full-Text
Keywords: soil microorganisms; phospholipid fatty acids; soil enzyme activities; agricultural soil fertilization soil microorganisms; phospholipid fatty acids; soil enzyme activities; agricultural soil fertilization
►▼ Show Figures

Figure 1

This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
SciFeed

Share and Cite

MDPI and ACS Style

Holík, L.; Hlisnikovský, L.; Honzík, R.; Trögl, J.; Burdová, H.; Popelka, J. Soil Microbial Communities and Enzyme Activities after Long-Term Application of Inorganic and Organic Fertilizers at Different Depths of the Soil Profile. Sustainability 2019, 11, 3251. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11123251

AMA Style

Holík L, Hlisnikovský L, Honzík R, Trögl J, Burdová H, Popelka J. Soil Microbial Communities and Enzyme Activities after Long-Term Application of Inorganic and Organic Fertilizers at Different Depths of the Soil Profile. Sustainability. 2019; 11(12):3251. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11123251

Chicago/Turabian Style

Holík, Ladislav, Lukáš Hlisnikovský, Roman Honzík, Josef Trögl, Hana Burdová, and Jan Popelka. 2019. "Soil Microbial Communities and Enzyme Activities after Long-Term Application of Inorganic and Organic Fertilizers at Different Depths of the Soil Profile" Sustainability 11, no. 12: 3251. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11123251

Find Other Styles
Note that from the first issue of 2016, MDPI journals use article numbers instead of page numbers. See further details here.

Article Metrics

Article Access Map by Country/Region

1
Back to TopTop