Abstract
Widely popular Mehlich-3 phosphorus (P) was not used in the estimation of the intrinsic status of soil P. The objectives of this study were to develop the state-space model to determine the intrinsic soil P pools, a weakly adsorbed P pool, and a tightly adsorbed P pool, from the Mehlich-3 P. A linear relationship between Mehlich-3 P and the intrinsic soil P pools was derived from theoretical analysis of the extraction process of adsorbed P as competitive exchange by aqueous fluoride. Adsorption experiments of soil P were carried out to determine the dynamics of Mehlich-3 P after fertilizer phosphate was applied to soils. The results showed that state-space models of the two soil P pools could describe the dynamics of soil Mehlich-3 P in P adsorption experiments. Mehlich-3 P was a fraction of the weakly adsorbed P, and this fraction showed a linear relationship with soil P-sorption site density.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1058-1068 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Apr 27 2016 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- Intrinsic soil P pools
- soil mehich-3 extractable P
- state-space models
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Agronomy and Crop Science
- Soil Science
