Stotter, Michael: Chopped Miscanthus biomass for soil organic matter build-up and evaluation of nitrogen and carbon dynamics in arable farming systems. - Bonn, 2024. - Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
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author = {{Michael Stotter}},
title = {Chopped Miscanthus biomass for soil organic matter build-up and evaluation of nitrogen and carbon dynamics in arable farming systems},
school = {Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn},
year = 2024,
month = dec,
note = {Arable farming practices affect soil C and N dynamics and thus have a crucial impact on global climate change and on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Soil nutrient cycling is driven by soil microbial biomass, making knowledge of C and N pathways a key tool for the sustainable management of cropping systems. The cultivation of the perennial plant Miscanthus x giganteus (Mis) combines the benefits of ecosystem services for each cultivated area with the production of an additional carbon pool, that is used as a fertiliser for soil C sequestration, thus acting as a C sink. The hypothesis of this thesis is that the integration of C-rich Mis biomass into arable management strategies will stimulate soil microbial biomass (SMB) resulting in microbial N immobilisation and soil organic matter (SOM) build-up. Therefore, two different N-containing and C-rich agricultural fertilisers were produced from chopped Mis biomass. One was produced by mixing cattle slurry (CS) with Mis biomass (CS-Mis) and the other by using chopped Mis biomass as a bedding material for cattle for the production of cattle manure (CM-Mis). Both were then implemented in experiments conducted under greenhouse conditions by cultivation of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) and under field conditions in a crop rotation with winter barley (Hordeum vulgare L.), mustard (Sinapis alba L.) as catch crop, sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) and winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). The other treatments tested were a mixture of CS and wheat straw (CS-WS) and a cattle manure from shredded WS bedding (CM-WS) to test WS as a common biomass. A pure CS was also tested as a reference treatment for the two mixtures (CS-Mis, CS-WS). The influence of the above mentioned fertilisers on soil (soil inorganic N, soil microbial biomass C and N) and plant parameters (plant N uptake, yield and quality parameters) were continuously determined during the experiments by standard soil and plant analyses. The results indicated that SMB make use of Mis as a C source. Mis biomass contributes to SMB build-up and thus C sequestration at least as WS. This also resulted in N immobilisation, which had a mostly negative impact on yield and quality parameters and led to a reduction in nitrate leaching. In addition, N uptake was determined using a drone-based sensor and the implementation of digital elements in arable farming was assessed. With increasing knowledge of C and N fluxes and the metabolism of SMB, there is great potential to improve the sustainability of arable farming through their management. Mis biomass can be used as a tool for sustainable C and N management in arable farming systems.},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/12630}
}
urn: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:5-80101,
author = {{Michael Stotter}},
title = {Chopped Miscanthus biomass for soil organic matter build-up and evaluation of nitrogen and carbon dynamics in arable farming systems},
school = {Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn},
year = 2024,
month = dec,
note = {Arable farming practices affect soil C and N dynamics and thus have a crucial impact on global climate change and on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Soil nutrient cycling is driven by soil microbial biomass, making knowledge of C and N pathways a key tool for the sustainable management of cropping systems. The cultivation of the perennial plant Miscanthus x giganteus (Mis) combines the benefits of ecosystem services for each cultivated area with the production of an additional carbon pool, that is used as a fertiliser for soil C sequestration, thus acting as a C sink. The hypothesis of this thesis is that the integration of C-rich Mis biomass into arable management strategies will stimulate soil microbial biomass (SMB) resulting in microbial N immobilisation and soil organic matter (SOM) build-up. Therefore, two different N-containing and C-rich agricultural fertilisers were produced from chopped Mis biomass. One was produced by mixing cattle slurry (CS) with Mis biomass (CS-Mis) and the other by using chopped Mis biomass as a bedding material for cattle for the production of cattle manure (CM-Mis). Both were then implemented in experiments conducted under greenhouse conditions by cultivation of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) and under field conditions in a crop rotation with winter barley (Hordeum vulgare L.), mustard (Sinapis alba L.) as catch crop, sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) and winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). The other treatments tested were a mixture of CS and wheat straw (CS-WS) and a cattle manure from shredded WS bedding (CM-WS) to test WS as a common biomass. A pure CS was also tested as a reference treatment for the two mixtures (CS-Mis, CS-WS). The influence of the above mentioned fertilisers on soil (soil inorganic N, soil microbial biomass C and N) and plant parameters (plant N uptake, yield and quality parameters) were continuously determined during the experiments by standard soil and plant analyses. The results indicated that SMB make use of Mis as a C source. Mis biomass contributes to SMB build-up and thus C sequestration at least as WS. This also resulted in N immobilisation, which had a mostly negative impact on yield and quality parameters and led to a reduction in nitrate leaching. In addition, N uptake was determined using a drone-based sensor and the implementation of digital elements in arable farming was assessed. With increasing knowledge of C and N fluxes and the metabolism of SMB, there is great potential to improve the sustainability of arable farming through their management. Mis biomass can be used as a tool for sustainable C and N management in arable farming systems.},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/12630}
}