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Title: Background soil mineral nitrogen contents: AC0116, Warwickshire, 2013, urine
Related Party - Organisation (Author): ADAS
Related Party - Organisation (Funder): Defra
Related Party - Organisation (Funder): Scottish Government
Related Party - Organisation (Funder): Welsh Assembly Government
Related Party - Organisation (Funder): DAERA Northern Ireland
Abstract:
An experiment was carried out near Stratford-upon-Avon, central England (clay topsoil texture) using small field plots (4.5 x 3.8 m) arranged in a randomised block design with three replicates per treatment. Cattle urine (at 5 L/m2), synthetic urine (at 5 L/m2) and cattle dung (at 20 kg/m2) was applied to grassland in early-May (spring), mid-August (summer) and in mid-October (autumn) 2013. The synthetic urine was prepared using the formulation described for “R2” in the paper by Kool et al., (2006). A control treatment was included where no urine or dung was applied. In a separate treatment, a commercially available nitrification inhibitor was tested; dicyandiamide (DCD) was pre-mixed with the urine prior to application to give an application rate of 10 kg /ha for the DCD. The urine and dung was collected from lactating dairy cows at Reading University, kept refrigerated at <4°C and applied within seven days of collection. Reference: Kool, D.M., Hoffland, E., Abrahamse, P.A and van Groenigen, J.W. (2006). What artificial urine composition is adequate for simulating soil N2O fluxes and mineral N dynamics Soil Biology and Biochemistry 38, 1757-1763. This dataset is of soil mineral nitrogen (SMN) values measured to 0-90 cm depth across all 3 application timing experiments at the start of the study (i.e. spring 2013) & before the spring 2013 experimental treatments were applied.
Subject Keywords: Background soil mineral nitrogen; Grassland soils; Clay soils
Geographic Keywords: Warwickshire
Observed Properties: Ammonium-nitrogen; Application timing; Background soil mineral nitrogen; Experimental blocking; Nitrate-nitrogen; Sampling depth
Parameter: Application timing
Parameter: Background soil mineral nitrogen content
Parameter: Block number
Parameter: Depth of soil sampling
Parameter: Soil ammonium-nitrogen content
Parameter: Soil nitrate-nitrogen content
Geographic Extent - Longitude (West): -1.91 Longitude (East): -1.63 Latitude (South): 52.11 Latitude (North): 52.28 |
Phenomenon Time - Start Date/Time: 2013 End Date/Time: 2014
Result Time: 2013
Valid Time - Start Date/Time: 2013 End Date/Time: 2014
Feature of Interest: biosphere
Publication Date: 2017-04-05
This data is made available under the terms of the FBA Licence.
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