Static Soil Use Experiment Berlin-Dahlem
This experiment has been added by the GLTEN Curators using existing published sources.
- Local identifier
- DIII
- Years operational
- 1923—2014
- Objective
- Influence of long-term neglect of liming and P-fertilization, different plowing depths, organic fertilization and crop rotations on soil fertility and yield performance of silty sandy soil.
- Description
- The long-term experiment D III was set up by Kurt Opitz in 1923 on a newly established test field in Berlin-Dahlem to provide evidence of the mobilization of soil phosphoric acid through purely agricultural measures (greater plowing depth, regular liming) and to investigate the effectiveness of differentiated P fertilization under these conditions. The importance of organic fertilization for humus supply and the yield level of the sandy soil was later investigated by additionally introducing the experimental factor "manure fertilization" in 1939. In 2014 the experiment was uniformly sown to grass
- Data Access Statement
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- Data license
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- Data policy
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- Organization
- Institute for Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Humboldt Universityresearch organisation
- People
Site: D III
- Type
- research station field
- Location
- DahlemBerlinGermany
- Geographic location
- 52.46725722, 13.29711244
- Visits permitted?
- No
- Soil type
- luvisol
- Soil description
- Albic Luvisol
- Soil properties
Variable Depth Value (range) Units Ref year Estimated? Baseline? sand content 72.8 Percent silt content 22.9 Percent clay content 4.3 Percent - Climate properties
Variable Time period Value (range) Units air temperature 1981 – 2010 9.9 degree Celsius precipitation 1981 – 2010 562 millimeter
Design period: (1923—2014)
- Description
- The experiment has undergone several changes. In the original set up, the trial contained six systematically arranged (unrandomised) replications. The three original treatments were tillage, liming and phosphate fertilizer. Plots have been further split to add new treatments for FYM (1939) and crop rotation (1967). Detailed information about the crop rotations and cropping before 1967 has not been found from the published literature, although winter wheat, potatoes and fodder beet have been identified.
- Design description
- At the end of the experiment plots measured 5 x 4 m. Plots given are for the final experiment design.
- Number of plots
- 96
- Number of replicates
- 3
- Number of harvests per year
- 1
- Crops
Crop Years grown winter wheat potatoes - Crop Rotations
- Cereals only 4-course rotation
- 1-
With row crops 4 course rotation- 1-
- Factors
- Factor name
- Factor levels
- tillage process Plough depth
deep tillage (28 cm depth)
shallow tillage (17 cm depth)
- liming exposure
with lime (1 t/ha)
Application frequency: every 2 yearsChemical form: calcium carbonatewithout lime (0 )
- farmyard manure exposure
with FYM (30 t/ha)
Application frequency: Every 2 yearsChemical form: farmyard manurewithout FYM (0 )
- phosphate fertilizer exposure
with phosphorous
without phosphorous
Related publications
- Ellmer, F., Peschke, H., Köhn, W., Chmielewski, F.-M. and Baumecker, M. (2000), Tillage and fertilizing effects on sandy soils. Review and selected results of long-term experiments at Humboldt-University Berlin. Z. Pflanzenernähr. Bodenk., 163: 267-272
- Saha, N., Wirth S. and Ulrich A. (2013). Cellulolytic bacterial biodiversity in long-term manure experimental sites. African Journal of Agricultural Research https://doi.org/10.5897/AJAR13.002 [In English]
- Project website
- Bonares metadata record https://lte.bonares.de/lte-details/220/ [In German/English]
- Döring T. et al. 2015. After-effects of liming and farm yard manure application on weed communities in a terminated long-term trial