Rostock Long-term Fertilizer Experiment
This experiment has been added by the GLTEN Curators using existing published sources.
- Objective
- To study the effects of organic and inorganic fertilizers on soil phosphorus
- Data Access Statement
- Don't know
- Data license
- Don't know
- Data policy
- Don't know
- Organization
- University of Rostockresearch organisation
- People
Site: Experiment site
- Type
- research station field
- Location
- RostockMecklenburg-VorpommernGermany
- Geographic location
- 54.061519, 12.084886
- Visits permitted?
- No
- Soil type
- cambisol
- Soil description
- Loamy sand, classified as Stagnic Cambisol. The soil P level is sub-optimal according to German federal state classifications
- Soil properties
Variable Depth Value (range) Units Ref year Estimated? Baseline? soil pH 5.8 soil organic matter 0 – 30 Centimetres (1.9 – 2.3) Percent 2019 soil organic matter 30 – 60 Centimetres (1.5 – 1.8) Percent 2019 soil organic matter 60 – 90 Centimetres (1.8 – 2.1) Percent 2019 - Climatic type
- temperate humid continental climate
- Climate properties
Variable Time period Value (range) Units air temperature 8.1 degree Celsius precipitation 800 millimeter
Design period: (1998—)
- Design Type
- Split-plot
- Design description
- Randomized split-plot design with organic fertilizer as the main plot treatment and inorganic fertilizer as sub-plot treatments. Main plots measure 408 m2, sub plots measure 120 m2.
- Number of replicates
- 4
- Crops
Crop Years grown spring rapeseed spring wheat spring barley winter wheat sorghum maize winter rye sunflower - Factors
- Factor name
- Factor levels
- natural fertilizer exposure
cattle manure
biomass ash
biowaste compost
none
- phosphate fertilizer exposure
TSP
Chemical form: triple superphosphateTSP/ash
Chemical form: triple superphosphateWith biomass ashnone
- Measurements
Variable Material Units Frequency Scale Comment grain yield trait Not specified phosphorus removal Not specified
Related publications
- Theresa Zicker, Sabine von Tucher, Mareike Kavka, Bettina Eichler-Löbermann, 2018. Soil test phosphorus as affected by phosphorus budgets in two long-term field experiments in Germany, Field Crops Research, Volume 218, Pages 158-170 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2018.01.008 [In English]
- Hu, Y., Jarosch, K.A., Kavka, M. et al. Fate of P from organic and inorganic fertilizers assessed by complementary approaches. Nutr Cycl Agroecosyst 124, 189–209 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10705-022-10237-x [In English]