Agricultural Practices Influence Dissolved Nutrients Leaching through Intact Soil Cores
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Abstract
Nitrogen and P leaching from agricultural land to ground water poses a threat to water quality, but it may be possible to control dissolved nutrient leaching by choosing appropriate management practices. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of agricultural practices on dissolved N and dissolved P leaching from topsoil to subsurface soil after crop harvest. Intact soil cores and small disturbed soil columns were collected from a factorial (tillage × crop × fertilizer source) field experiment, 3 yr after the treatments were established. Soils were leached with synthetic rainwater in the laboratory and nutrient loads (kg ha −1 ) were calculated. Dissolved N and dissolved P loads were not affected by tillage and were similar following corn ( Zea mays L.) (in a continuous corn rotation) and soybean [ Glycine Max (L.) Merr.] (in a soybean/corn rotation) production. Soils receiving inorganic fertilizer had a 70% greater nitrate (NO 3 –N) load and 48% less dissolved reactive P than soils receiving organic fertilizer, suggesting that fertilizing soils with a combination of inorganic and organic fertilizers might be a good way to reduce both NO 3 –N and dissolved reactive P transport to water systems. The NO 3 –N load increased as the soil NO 3 –N concentration increased ( R 2 = 0.36) while the dissolved reactive P load was positively related to the soil Mehlich‐3 P concentration ( R 2 = 0.50) and soil P saturation ratio (M3‐PSR) ( R 2 = 0.55). These results suggest that the leaching of dissolved N and dissolved P compounds is influenced more by the type of fertilizer applied than tillage or cropping practices.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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