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- Source :
- Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems. 67:13-20
- Publication Year :
- 2003
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2003.
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Abstract
- We have studied the short term C mineralization of six wastes from important food industries, one sludge from a biogas plant and three composts. All the wastes were characterized chemically and fractionated according to the Van Soest method. The fresh wastes were incubated under controlled environment conditions to determine the C mineralization rate. Based on first order mineralization kinetics, we calculated the hypothetical amount of stable C in the wastes as the amount of C that would not be mineralized within one year under field conditions. The percentage of stable organic C in the organic matter was in general much larger in the composts than in the other wastes, but when expressed on dry matter, the non-composted wastes had comparable or larger amounts of stable organic C than the composts and have a considerable potential for supplying organic matter to soils, and hence for C sequestration. The amount of stable organic C could best be predicted by the total N content of the wastes (Ra2 = 0.855), whereas the results of the fractionation had very little predictive power, probably due to problems related to the high ash content of some of the wastes. An index that combined stable organic C and N and P content in the wastes was calculated to assess possible limitations for applying these wastes in agriculture. Under current nutrient legislation in Western Europe, a number of these wastes will only be usable in small amounts, but these and other food industry wastes could still prove to be valuable soil amendments in nutrient poor situations, for increasing soil organic C content and supplying nutrients.
- Subjects :
- chemistry.chemical_classification
Food industry
business.industry
Soil organic matter
Soil Science
Mineralization (soil science)
Pulp and paper industry
complex mixtures
Soil conditioner
Agronomy
Biogas
chemistry
Soil water
Environmental science
Organic matter
Soil fertility
business
Agronomy and Crop Science
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 13851314
- Volume :
- 67
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........80ae5bfb930937b275467fa479f591bd