Table 4 Water and ammonium extractable nutrient concentrations of soils treated with different urea fertilizer (mg/kg).
Nutrients | Extractant | Greenhouse | Field | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Low fertilizer (N0) | Control (N1) | High fertilizer (N2) | Low fertilizer (N0) | Control (N1) | High fertilizer (N1.5) | ||
Ca | H2O | 20.22 ± 3.64 a | 28.56 ± 6.43 a | 17.30 ± 15.70 a | 8.69 ± 2.73 a | 5.02 ± 3.78 a | 4.53 ± 1.73 a |
NH4OAC | 158.0 ± 4.8 a | 160.5 ± 13.5 a | 156.5 ± 4.5 a | 648.3 ± 79.3 a | 601.5 ± 34.7 a | 620.6 ± 182.5 a | |
K | H2O | 10.24 ± 1.14 a | 9.97 ± 2.44 ab | 5.19 ± 4.34 b | 44.28 ± 30.02 a | 33.66 ± 12.82 a | 20.35 ± 17.30 a |
NH4OAC | 17.77 ± 1.45 a | 14.45 ± 1.63 b | 13.26 ± 0.53 b | 326.7 ± 186.2 a | 319.6 ± 117.3 a | 221.9 ± 112.8 a | |
Mg | H2O | 3.03 ± 0.65 a | 4.74 ± 1.75 a | 2.40 ± 2.17 a | 5.37 ± 2.25 a | 2.99 ± 2.19 a | 2.29 ± 1.13 a |
NH4OAC | 14.07 ± 0.41 a | 14.55 ± 1.24 a | 14.16 ± 0.66 a | 227.0 ± 14.4 a | 213.6 ± 16.1 a | 173.5 ± 22.0 b | |
P | H2O | 2.28 ± 0.14 a | 2.12 ± 0.25 a | 1.03 ± 0.86 b | 0.65 ± 0.60 a | 0.33 ± 0.07 a | 0.24 ± 0.05 a |
S | H2O | 12.07 ± 1.39 a | 14.51 ± 2.55 a | 11.19 ± 9.23 a | 10.72 ± 4.89 a | 9.09 ± 3.35 a | 8.57 ± 3.33 a |
NH4+-N | KCl | 12.71 ± 0.51 a | 12.54 ± 0.51 a | 14.52 ± 3.13 a | 3.71 ± 1.88 a | 1.45 ± 0.81 a | 2.38 ± 0.49 a |
pH | 7.42 ± 0.12 a | 7.15 ± 0.11 b | 7.04 ± 0.07 b | 6.25 ± 0.78 a | 5.66 ± 0.40 a | 5.28 ± 0.03 a | |
EC (µS/cm) | 53.55 ± 7.56 b | 79.94 ± 10.27 a | 84.27 ± 11.74 a | 63.51 ± 0.78 a | 52.97 ± 0.40 a | 29.93 ± 0.03 b | |