<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">The goal of the research was to determine the resources and speciation (forms of occurrence) of phosphorus in organic soils of drained fens of the Wysoczyzna Siedlecka. Two profiles of muck soils were generated from different peats. Basic physical and chemical properties of the soils and the quantity, resources and fractions of phosphorus in the soil were determined.The majority of the total resource of soil phosphorus was accumulated in the muck horizons of the analysed soils. The total content of phosphorus materially correlated with characteristically variable parameters in the moorshification process (voids free bulk density of the content of organic matter, C/N ratio and C/P ratio). Additionally, a material positive correlation of the content of phosphorus with the content of iron, manganese and aluminium was observed.The moorshification process of the analysed soils entails the qualitative transformation of phosphorus compounds, mainly involving an increase in the share of more labile and easily available forms, forms released in reduction conditions and forms combined with metallic oxides, apatite, carbonate and labile organic forms.</abstract>

The goal of the research was to determine the resources and speciation (forms of occurrence) of phosphorus in organic soils of drained fens of the Wysoczyzna Siedlecka. Two profiles of muck soils were generated from different peats. Basic physical and chemical properties of the soils and the quantity, resources and fractions of phosphorus in the soil were determined.The majority of the total resource of soil phosphorus was accumulated in the muck horizons of the analysed soils. The total content of phosphorus materially correlated with characteristically variable parameters in the moorshification process (voids free bulk density of the content of organic matter, C/N ratio and C/P ratio). Additionally, a material positive correlation of the content of phosphorus with the content of iron, manganese and aluminium was observed.The moorshification process of the analysed soils entails the qualitative transformation of phosphorus compounds, mainly involving an increase in the share of more labile and easily available forms, forms released in reduction conditions and forms combined with metallic oxides, apatite, carbonate and labile organic forms.

Phosphorus resources and fractions in peat-muck soils

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The goal of the research was to determine the resources and speciation (forms of occurrence) of phosphorus in organic soils of drained fens of the Wysoczyzna...

Genetic horizon	Phosphorus fraction
	F1	F2	F3	F4	F5
Profile 1
M1	0.370	6.22	31.5	41.1	20.8
M2	0.150	5.07	22.1	50.0	22.7
Oe1	0.140	5.31	13.1	51.9	29.6
Oe2	0.090	3.04	3.00	52.2	41.7
Oe3	0.080	1.46	8.23	60.0	30.2
Profile 2
M1	0.390	8.06	22.0	44.8	24.8
M2	0.250	5.46	12.5	54.4	27.4
M3	0.210	3.97	9.12	53.0	33.7
Oa1	0.160	3.21	7.40	55.9	33.3
Oa2	0.110	1.67	10.0	53.9	34.3
Mean for murshic horizons (M)	0.274	5.76	19.4	48.7	25.9
Mean for peat horizons (O)	0.116	2.94	8.35	54.8	33.8

Genetic horizon,depth (cm)	pH	D (g·cm⁻³)	SOM (g·kg⁻¹)	TC/TN	TC/P_T
Organic hemic-muck soil – profile 1
M1, mursh, 0–10	6.20	0.404	620.6	11.3	109.5
M2, mursh,10–25	6.17	0.380	670.6	12.2	127.7
Oe1, reed peat, 25–40	6.00	0.184	855.1	15.8	435.1
Oe2, reed peat, 40–70	5.81	0.155	899.9	16.2	998.1
Oe3,reed peat, 70–100	5.70	0.180	822.3	15.3	608.4
Organic sapric-muck soils – profile 2
M1, mursh, 0–10	5.20	0.420	634.4	10.7	161.4
M2, mursh, 10–20	5.41	0.334	708.6	12.0	258.5
M3, mursh, 20–35	5.50	0.328	737.9	12.8	326.7
Oa1, alder peat, 35–50	5.99	0.193	796.5	16.8	822.1
Oa2, alder peat, 50–65	5.85	0.235	765.5	15.8	595.2

Genetic horizon	P_T(g·kg⁻¹)	P_T(g·dm⁻³)	P_ZAS(kg·m⁻²)
Profile 1
M1	3.29 (4.03) Enrichment index of phosphorus to mean content in peat.	1.33 (9.23) Enrichment index of phosphorus to mean content in peat.
M2	3.05 (3.73)	1.16 (8.04)
Oe1	1.14	0.210	(75.70.405 :24.3) Percentage (%) of mucky and peaty horizons (M:O).
Oe2	0.523	0.081
Oe3	0.784	0.141
Profile 2
M1	2.28 (3.49)	0.958 (6.75)
M2	1.59 (2.43)	0.531 (3.74)
M3	1.31 (2.00)	0.430 (3.03)	(83.40.256 :16.6) Percentage (%) of mucky and peaty horizons (M:O).
Oa1	0.562	0.108
Oa2	0.746	0.175

Parameter	pH_KCl	D	TC/TN	Content
				SOM	Fe	Mn	Al	Ca	Mg
P_T	0.205	0.880	−0.849	−0.859	0.950	0.891	0.713	−0.295	−0.482

Phosphorus resources and fractions in peat-muck soils

Published Online: Sep 01, 2018

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/oszn-2018-0012

Keywords
phosphorus accumulation, moorshification, peat

© 2018 Marcin Becher, Krzysztof Pakuła, Joanna Pielech, Ewa Trzcińska, published by Sciendo

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Percentage contribution of phosphorus fraction (F1–F5) in total content in tested soils.

Some properties of tested soil.

The content, enrichment index and phosphorus recourses in tested soils.

Correlation of the total phosphorus content with soil properties.

Phosphorus resources and fractions in peat-muck soils

Published Online: Sep 01, 2018

Page range: 1 - 6

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/oszn-2018-0012

Keywordsphosphorus accumulation, moorshification, peat

© 2018 Marcin Becher, Krzysztof Pakuła, Joanna Pielech, Ewa Trzcińska, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Figure 1

Figure 2

Figure 3

Figure 4

Percentage contribution of phosphorus fraction (F1–F5) in total content in tested soils.

Some properties of tested soil.

The content, enrichment index and phosphorus recourses in tested soils.

Correlation of the total phosphorus content with soil properties.

Keywords
phosphorus accumulation, moorshification, peat