Indicators of peat soil degradation in the Biebrza valley, Poland

Jadwiga Sienkiewicz; Grażyna Porębska; Apolonia Ostrowska; Dariusz Gozdowski

Open Access

Indicators of peat soil degradation in the Biebrza valley, Poland

and

| Jun 28, 2019

Environmental Protection and Natural Resources

Volume 30 (2019): Issue 2 (June 2019)

About this article

Cite

Page range: 41 - 51

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/oszn-2019-0009

Keywords
Biebrza, wetland, mineralisation, organic matter, carbon

© 2019 Jadwiga Sienkiewicz, Grażyna Porębska, Apolonia Ostrowska, Dariusz Gozdowski, published by Sciendo

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

Location of the study sites, Biebrza valley

Relationships between values of soil organic carbon, soil organic matter, total nitrogen, dissolved organic carbon and dissolved organic nitrogen (SOC, SOM, Ntot, DOC and DON) using linear regression

Relationship between relative value of soil organic carbon and soil organic matter based on linear regression

Relationship based on non-linear regression between relative value of A) soil organic carbon and total nitrogen, B) soil organic carbon and dissolved organic nitrogen and, C) soil organic carbon and dissolved organic carbon

Range of values for the soil parameters examined

Soil property	Units	min (relative 0%)	max (relative 100%)
SOC	%	0.16	56.1
N_tot	%	0.01	3.22
SOM	%	0.4	95.66
DOC	mg kg⁻¹	16.56	5287
DON	mg kg⁻¹	1.19	245.6

Changes in soil properties depending on relative values of SOC content within the range from 20% to 30%

SOC (%)	30	29	28	27	26	25	24	23	22	21	20
N _tot (%)	33.73	32.37	31.02	29.66	28.31	26.97	25.64	24.31	23.00	21.70	20.42
ΔN_tot (%)		1.36	1.36	1.35	1.35	1.34	1.33	1.32	1.31	1.30	1.29
SOM (%)	30.84	29.81	28.78	27.76	26.73	25.70	24.67	23.64	22.62	21.59	20.56
ΔSOM (%)		1.03	1.03	1.03	1.03	1.03	1.03	1.03	1.03	1.03	1.03
DON (%)	26.33	25.47	24.60	23.73	22.85	21.97	21.09	20.20	19.31	18.41	17.52
ΔDON (%)		0.86	0.87	0.87	0.88	0.88	0.88	0.89	0.89	0.89	0.89
DOC (%)	17.58	17.42	17.23	17.03	16.81	16.57	16.30	16.01	15.70	15.36	14.99
ΔDOC (%) Table	4	0.17	0.18	0.20	0.22	0.24	0.26	0.29	0.31	0.34	0.37

Pearson’s correlation coefficients for SOC, Ntot, SOM and DOC in the studied peat soils (all correlations were significant at p < 0.05)

Parameters	SOC	N_tot	SOM	DOC
N_tot	0.85
SOM	0.98	0.90
DOC	0.61	0.34	0.57
DON	0.72	0.70	0.72	0.72

Changes in soil properties depending on relative values of SOC content within the range from 0% to 50%

SOC (%)	50	40	30	20	10	0
N_tot	59.06	47.12	33.73	20.42	8.67	0.00
ΔN_tot		11.94	13.38	13.32	11.75	8.67
SOM	51.40	41.12	30.84	20.56	10.28	0.00
ΔSOM		10.28	10.28	10.28	10.28	10.28
DON	41.65	34.53	26.33	17.52	8.58	0.00
ΔDON		7.12	8.20	8.81	8.94	8.58
DOC	19.24	18.58	17.58	14.99	9.55	0.00
ΔDOC		0.66	1.00	2.59	5.44	9.55

Mean values and standard deviations for the examined variables in four groups of soil data (n = 100). The same letters mean that differences between groups are not significant

Group of soils with the SOC content (%) in the range	SOC	N_tot	SOM	DOC	DON	C/N	DOC/SOC	DON/N_tot
	%			mg kg^-1		Min–max	% (min–max)	%
36–56	44.65d ±5.98	2.2d ±0.61	78.68d ±9.28	1741.1c ± 1469.6	115.23b ± 56.32	18–24	0.39 (0.07–0.63)	0.52
16.1–35.9	28.61c ±6.05	1.73c ±0.63	50.54c ±16.3	1266.1bc ±831.7	109.05b ±63.32	15–21	0.44 (0.19–0.60)	0.63
3.1–16	7.96b ±3.07	0.55b ±0.24	14.32b ±5.79	497.8ab ±383.4	31.04a ±16.26	14–16	0.62 (0.20–0.80)	0.56
0.1–3	1.24a ±0.94	0.05a ±0.04	2.91a ±3.27	146.1a ±137.5	4.06a ± 2.51	24–30	1.17 (0.29–1.28)	0.81

eISSN:: 2353-8589
Language:: English

Publication timeframe:: 4 times per year
Journal Subjects:: Life Sciences, Ecology

Journal RSS Feed

Indicators of peat soil degradation in the Biebrza valley, Poland

Published Online: Jun 28, 2019

Page range: 41 - 51

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/oszn-2019-0009

Keywords
Biebrza, wetland, mineralisation, organic matter, carbon

© 2019 Jadwiga Sienkiewicz, Grażyna Porębska, Apolonia Ostrowska, Dariusz Gozdowski, 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

Range of values for the soil parameters examined

Changes in soil properties depending on relative values of SOC content within the range from 20% to 30%

Pearson’s correlation coefficients for SOC, Ntot, SOM and DOC in the studied peat soils (all correlations were significant at p < 0.05)

Changes in soil properties depending on relative values of SOC content within the range from 0% to 50%

Mean values and standard deviations for the examined variables in four groups of soil data (n = 100). The same letters mean that differences between groups are not significant

Indicators of peat soil degradation in the Biebrza valley, Poland

Published Online: Jun 28, 2019

Page range: 41 - 51

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/oszn-2019-0009

KeywordsBiebrza, wetland, mineralisation, organic matter, carbon

© 2019 Jadwiga Sienkiewicz, Grażyna Porębska, Apolonia Ostrowska, Dariusz Gozdowski, 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

Range of values for the soil parameters examined

Changes in soil properties depending on relative values of SOC content within the range from 20% to 30%

Pearson’s correlation coefficients for SOC, Ntot, SOM and DOC in the studied peat soils (all correlations were significant at p < 0.05)

Changes in soil properties depending on relative values of SOC content within the range from 0% to 50%

Mean values and standard deviations for the examined variables in four groups of soil data (n = 100). The same letters mean that differences between groups are not significant

Keywords
Biebrza, wetland, mineralisation, organic matter, carbon