Effects of exogenous dissolved organic matter and temperature on copper forms in red soil.

A simulating incubation test was conducted to evaluate the effects of exogenous dissolved organic matter (DOM) and incubation temperature on the copper forms in red soil. Comparing with the control, adding different amount of DOM increased the content of soil exchangeable Cu, but decreased the content of soil Fe-Mn bound Cu. With increasing time of incubation, the content of soil exchangeable Cu in all DOM-added treatments had a decreasing trend. By the end of the incubation, treatment 250 mg DOM∙L^-1 had the highest contents of soil exchangeable Cu and carbonate bound Cu, while treatment 500 mg DOM∙L^-1 had the highest content of soil Fe-Mn bound Cu. In the treatments with DOM addition, the content of soil organic bound Cu increased by 10.67% - 23.66%, compared with the control. At incubation temperature 25 °C and 45 °C, the contents of soil exchangeable Cu and Fe-Mn bound Cu decreased with increasing time of incubation; while at 5 °C, an opposite trend was observed. At these three temperatures, the content of soil carbonate bound Cu in treatments with DOM addition increased with incubation time. The content of soil organic bound Cu increased with increasing temperature, but that of soil residual Cu decreased at lower temperature (5 °C). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]