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@ARTICLE{Kaufmann:1041116,
author = {Kaufmann, Manuela and Klotzsche, Anja and van der Kruk, Jan
and Langen, Anke and Vereecken, Harry and Weihermüller,
Lutz},
title = {{A}ssessing soil fertilization effects using
time-lapseelectromagnetic induction},
journal = {Soil},
volume = {11},
number = {1},
issn = {2199-3971},
address = {Göttingen},
publisher = {Copernicus Publ.},
reportid = {FZJ-2025-02150},
pages = {267–285},
year = {2025},
abstract = {Adding mineral fertilizers and nutrients is a common
practice in conventional farming and is fun-damental to
maintain optimal yield and crop quality; nitrogen is the
most applied fertilizer and is often used excessively,
leading to adverse environmental impacts. To assist farmers
in optimal fertilization and crop man-agement, non-invasive
geophysical methods can provide knowledge about the spatial
and temporal distribution of nutrients in the soil. In
recent years, electromagnetic induction (EMI) has been
widely used for field charac-terization, to delineate soil
units and management zones, or to estimate soil properties
and states. Additionally, ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and
electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) have been used in
local studies to measure changes in soil properties.
Unfortunately, the measured geophysical signals are
confounded by horizon- tal and vertical changes in soil
conditions and parameters, and the individual contributions
of these conditions and parameters are not easy to
disentangle. Within fields, and also between fields,
fertilization management might vary in space and time, and,
therefore, the differences in pore fluid conductivity caused
directly by fertilization or indirectly by different crop
performance make the interpretation of large-scale
geophysical surveys over field borders complicated. To study
the direct effect of mineral fertilization on the soil
electrical conductivity, a field experiment was performed on
21 bare-soil plots with seven different fertilization
treatments. As fertilizers, calcium ammonium nitrate (CAN)
and potassium chloride (KCl) were chosen and applied in
three dosages. Soil water content, soil temperature, and
bulk electrical conductivity were recorded continuously over
450 d. Additionally, 20 EMI, 7 GPR, and 9 ERT surveys were
performed, and on days of ERT measurements, soil samples for
nitrate and reference soil electrical conductivity
measurements were taken. The results showed that (1) the
commonly used CAN application dosage did not impact the
geophysical signals significantly. (2) EMI and ERT were able
to trace back the temporal changes in nitrate concentrations
in the soil profile over more than 1 year. (3) Both
techniques were not able to trace the nitrate concentrations
in the very shallow soil layer of 0–10 cm, irrespective of
the low impact of fertilization on the geophysical signal.
(4) The results indicated that past fertilization practices
cannot be neglected in EMI studies, especially if surveys
are performed over large areas with different fertilization
practices or on crops grown with different fertilizer
demands or uptake},
cin = {IBG-3},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-3-20101118},
pnm = {2173 - Agro-biogeosystems: controls, feedbacks and impact
(POF4-217) / BonaRes (Modul A): Nachhaltiges
Unterbodenmanagement - Soil³, Teilprojekt 3 (031B0026C)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-2173 / G:(BMBF)031B0026C},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:001455580100001},
doi = {10.5194/soil-11-267-2025},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1041116},
}