Long-term Experiment - Wuwei
This experiment has been added by the GLTEN Curators using existing published sources.
- Objective
- Unknown
- Data Access Statement
- Don't know
- Data license
- Don't know
- Data policy
- Don't know
- Organization
- Wuwei Oasis Agricultural Research Stationexperimental research station
- People
Site: Wuwei
- Type
- research station field
- Location
- WuweiGansuChina
- Geographic location
- 38.603484, 102.667285
- Elevation
- 1504 Metres
- Visits permitted?
- No
- Soil description
- calcareous desert soils (sandy clay loam, Typic Anthrosol)
- Soil properties
Variable Depth Value (range) Units Ref year Estimated? Baseline? soil organic matter 16.35 gram per kilogram total soil nitrogen 1.06 gram per kilogram total soil phosphorous 1.5 gram per kilogram plant available nitrogen 64.4 milligram per kilogram plant available phosphorous 13 milligram per kilogram plant available potassium 150 milligram per kilogram soil pH 8.8 - Climatic type
- warm semi-arid climate
- Climate properties
Variable Time period Value (range) Units precipitation 150 millimeter air temperature 7.7 degree Celsius
Design period: (1988—)
- Design description
- Plots measure 30.2 m2. Maize and wheat are intercropped.
- Number of replicates
- 3
- Crops
Crop Years grown maize wheat - Factors
- Factor name
- Factor levels
- nitrogen fertilizer exposure
N0 (0 )
N50%
50% of full N rateN100%
Full N rate- natural fertilizer exposure
green manure
Chemical form: hairy vetch (Vicia villosa)Obtained from local farms.50% green manure
Chemical form: hairy vetch (Vicia villosa)Obtained from local farms. Applied at half rate.straw
Chemical form: straw50% wheat straw
Chemical form: wheat strawApplied at half rate.
- Factor combinations
- CK No fertilizer inputs applied
- IF Full rate N included P applications
- nitrogen fertilizer exposure: N100%
- GM
- natural fertilizer exposure: green manure
- GM+IF
- nitrogen fertilizer exposure: N50%natural fertilizer exposure: 50% green manure
- WS
- natural fertilizer exposure: straw
- WS+IF
- nitrogen fertilizer exposure: N50%natural fertilizer exposure: 50% wheat straw
- CK
- Measurement
Variable Material Units Frequency Scale Comment soil properties Not specified
Related publications
- Qing Bian, Xiaoyue Wang, Xingguo Bao, Lingyue Zhu, Zubin Xie, Zongxian Che, Bo Sun, 2022. Exogenous substrate quality determines the dominant keystone taxa linked to carbon mineralization: Evidence from a 30-year experiment, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Volume 169, 108683 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2022.108683 [In English]