Continuous biosolids application affects grain elemental concentrations in a dryland-wheat agroecosystem

Barbarack, K.A. and Ippolito, J.A. (2009) Continuous biosolids application affects grain elemental concentrations in a dryland-wheat agroecosystem. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. 129:340-343.

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Abstract

Continuous land application of biosolids in a beneficial-use program changes trace-element availability to plants over time. Consequently, what regression model, if any, could best predict wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) grain concentrations in a biosolids-amended dryland agroecosystem? We calculated paraboloid, linear, quadratic, and exponential-rise-to-a maximum equations for grain Ba, Cd, Cu, Mn, Mo, Ni, P, and Zn concentration versus number of biosolids applications and/or soil NH4HCO3-dithethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (AB-DTPA) extract concentrations for two sites that had each received six applications of Littleton/Englewood, CO, USA Wastewater Treatment Facility biosolids. The paraboloid-regression models were superior (higher R2 values, lower S.E. of the estimate) to other models. Soils classified the same as the Weld soil (used in this study) at the family level (fine, smectitic, mesic Aridic Argiustolls) encompass 25 soil series in 10 US states with an aerial extent of 2.3 × 106 ha. The paraboloid-regression model approach probably would be applicable to these similarly classified soils.

Item Type:	Article
NWISRL Publication Number:	1277
Subjects:	Manure > Application guidelines
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Date Deposited:	18 Dec 2008 21:48
Last Modified:	18 Oct 2016 15:25
Item ID:	1300
URI:	https://eprints.nwisrl.ars.usda.gov/id/eprint/1300