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Official Journal of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS)

Table 6 Effect of soil amendments on WEOC:SOC ratio (%) in low-salinity and high-salinity soils

From: Effects of amendments on carbon and nitrogen fractions in agricultural soils of Yellow River Delta

Treatments

Low-salinity soil

High-salinity soil

0–20 cm

20–40 cm

0–20 cm

20–40 cm

Initial

0.80 ± 0.03bcd

1.07 ± 0.06de

1.20 ± 0.10bcd

1.62 ± 0.008 cd

CK

0.86 ± 0.03ab

1.15 ± 0.08 cd

1.31 ± 0.10abc

1.61 ± 0.07 cd

G1

0.70 ± 0.06def

0.95 ± 0.006ef

1.10 ± 0.07d

1.06 ± 0.07f

G2

0.60 ± 0.03 fg

0.78 ± 0.07f

1.01 ± 0.05de

1.51 ± 0.08de

Ca1

0.97 ± 0.02a

1.35 ± 0.01ab

1.45 ± 0.09a

2.00 ± 0.11ab

Ca2

0.90 ± 0.05ab

1.23 ± 0.02bcd

1.35 ± 0.09ab

1.50 ± 0.11de

B1

0.74 ± 0.04cde

0.98 ± 0.07ef

0.89 ± 0.01ef

1.01 ± 0.07f

B2

0.68 ± 0.03ef

0.96 ± 0.06ef

0.81 ± 0.05f

0.98 ± 0.07f

S1

0.83 ± 0.04bc

1.48 ± 0.08a

1.42 ± 0.07a

1.98 ± 0.05ab

S2

0.71 ± 0.02de

1.31 ± 0.10bc

1.43 ± 0.04a

2.13 ± 0.14a

S1G1

0.52 ± 0.04 g

1.07 ± 0.03de

1.08 ± 0.06de

1.35 ± 0.08e

S2G2

0.59 ± 0.05 fg

1.32 ± 0.04abc

1.11 ± 0.03 cd

1.80 ± 0.02bc

  1. Values followed by different letters indicate significant differences among treatments (p < 0.05) according to LSD