title: [Effects of long-term potassium fertilization on potassium fixation in soils under different ecological conditions: a mechanism study].
abstract: By using X-ray diffraction and laboratory simulation, this paper studied the effects of long-term potassium (K) fertilization on K fixation in black soil, loess soil, and grey desert soil under different ecological conditions and cropping systems. The results showed that long-term K fertilization had greater effects on the K fixation capacity of soils with lower hydromica content. When the K application rate was 400 to 4 000 mg x kg(-1), the K fixation capacity of black soil and loess soil, whose hydromica contents were low or relatively low, decreased by 75-747 mg x kg(-1) and 16-238 mg x kg(-1), respectively, compared with no K application, while no change was observed in grey desert soil whose hydromica content was high. Long-term K application could affect the changes of soil K-bearing minerals, i.e., slowing down or holding back the transformation of hydromica into mixed-layered mica-smectite, and consequently, decreased the K fixation capacity of soil. The increase of soil slow-available K content and K+ saturation owing to the long-term K application also induced the decrease of the K fixation capacity.
authors.affiliation: College of Resource and Environment, Northwest A & F University, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China. zhhm2007@163.com
authors.forename: Hui-min
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Ming-gang
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Jia-long
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Lü
authors.forename: Hong-xia
authors.initials: HX
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D017753:Ecosystem; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D005308:Fertilizers; D011188:Potassium / Q000032:analysis* / Q000378:metabolism; D012987:Soil / Q000032:analysis*; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D005308:Fertilizers; D012987:Soil; D011188:Potassium