Long-term PFM and fertilizer field experiment
This experiment has been added by the GLTEN Curators using existing published sources.
- Objective
- To study the effects of plastic film mulching on a maize monoculture.
- Data Access Statement
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- Data license
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- Data policy
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- Organizations
- People
Site: experiment site
- Type
- research station field
- Location
- ShenyangLiaoning ProvinceChina
- Geographic location
- 41.816667, 123.566667
- Visits permitted?
- No
- Management
- Site is managed under a conventional tillage system
- Soil type
- cambisol
- Soil description
- Soil is a Hapli-Udic Cambisol according to FAO Classification.
- Soil properties
Variable Depth Value (range) Units Ref year Estimated? Baseline? sand content 0 – 20 Centimetres 16.7 Percent silt content 0 – 20 Centimetres 58.4 Percent clay content 0 – 20 Centimetres 24.9 Percent soil pH 0 – 20 Centimetres 6.4 soil organic matter 0 – 20 Centimetres 9.05 gram per kilogram total soil nitrogen 0 – 20 Centimetres 1 gram per kilogram total soil phosphorous 0 – 20 Centimetres 0.5 gram per kilogram - Climatic type
- temperate humid continental climate
- Climate properties
Variable Time period Value (range) Units air temperature 7.9 degree Celsius precipitation 705 millimeter
Design period: (1987—)
- Design Type
- Split-plot
- Design description
- Sub plots measure 69 m2
- Number of subplots
- 12
- Number of replicates
- 3
- Crop
Crop Years grown maize - Factors
- Factor name
- Factor levels
- plastic film mulching process Main plot treatment
no PFM
with PFM
- nitrogen fertilizer exposure Subplot treatments
N0 (0 )
N1 (135 kgN/ha)
Chemical form: ureaN2 (270 kgN/ha)
Chemical form: urea
- Measurement
Variable Material Units Frequency Scale Comment yield trait Not specified
Related publications
- Fan Ding, Shuangyi Li, Xiao-Tao Lü, Feike A Dijkstra, Sean Schaeffer, Tingting An, Jiubo Pei, Liangjie Sun, Jingkuan Wang, Opposite effects of nitrogen fertilization and plastic film mulching on crop N and P stoichiometry in a temperate agroecosystem, Journal of Plant Ecology, Volume 12, Issue 4, August 2019, Pages 682–692 https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtz006 [In English]
- Dechang Ji, Fan Ding, Feike A. Dijkstra, Zhaojie Jia, Shuangyi Li, Jingkuan Wang, 2022. Crop residue decomposition and nutrient release are independently affected by nitrogen fertilization, plastic film mulching, and residue type, European Journal of Agronomy, Volume 138 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eja.2022.126535 [In English]