Soil microaggregate size composition and organic matter distribution as affected by clay content

Aggregation assembles different size mixtures of soil particles into a larger architecture. Such mixtures impede resolving which particles build aggregates and how these control the accumulation of soil organic matter (OM). Here we present an approach to differentiate the size distributions of soil...

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Published in:Geoderma 2019-12, Vol.355, p.113901, Article 113901
Main Authors: Schweizer, Steffen A., Bucka, Franziska B., Graf-Rosenfellner, Markus, Kögel-Knabner, Ingrid
Format: Article
Language:English
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Aggregate size distributions
Dynamic image analysis
Organo-mineral associations
Soil aggregation
Soil texture
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Summary:Aggregation assembles different size mixtures of soil particles into a larger architecture. Such mixtures impede resolving which particles build aggregates and how these control the accumulation of soil organic matter (OM). Here we present an approach to differentiate the size distributions of soil fractions in the size range of microaggregates (250 μm were sonicated to isolate occluded size fractions 250 μm) and larger microaggregates in the 50–180 μm size range. The low-clay soils, on the other hand, contained more non-aggregated sand-sized particles >100 μm which probably hampered the buildup of larger aggregates. The size distribution of particles
ISSN:0016-7061
1872-6259
DOI:10.1016/j.geoderma.2019.113901