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Effect of Continuous Cropping with Film Covering on Soil Nematode Communities in Maize Field
- LI Xiaolan, XIANG Jishan, PANG Yanfei, WU Hao, LI Xue, CHEN Gaowa, TIAN Biao, BAI Guangyu
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2018, 20(10):
105-114.
DOI: 10.13304/j.nykjdb.2017.0827
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Nematode has been widely used as indicative organism in the field of soil ecology, and also an important organism indicating soil health. In order to investigate the effect of continuous cropping with film mulch on soil ecosystem, this paper compared and studied the differences in soil physico-chemical properties, soil nematode functional groups and ecological indices between film mulch and non-mulch in maize fields of Chifeng, Inner Mongolia. The results showed that mulch for continuous cropping field significantly (P<0.05 or P<0.01) reduced soil moisture content, porosity, silt particle content, organic carbon, total nitrogen, total phosphorus, total potassium, available phosphorous, cation exchange capacity, and contents of sucrase, protease and urease, while soil bulk density, contents of sand and catalase significantly increased (P<0.01). Total 55 nematode genera were identified, 49 of them in maize fields with mulch, 50 in fields without mulch. In the maize fields with mulch, the quantities of bacterivores, fungivores, plant parasites, c-p1 groups, c-p2 groups were significantly lower (P<0.05) than those in maize fields without mulch. The summed maturity index (MMI), maturity index of free-living (MI) and channel index (CI) were significantly higher in film mulching maize fields than those in maize fields without mulch, While the enrichment index (EI) was significantly lower than that in maize fields without mulch, indicating that the continuous cropping with mulch had changed soil environment, reduced various soil physical and chemical indices, affected soil nematode community structure, reduced soil nematode number and composition, so soil health was deteriorated.