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Agronomy Journal 94:455-461 (2002)
© 2002 American Society of Agronomy

GREENS MANAGEMENT

Accumulation of Microbial Biomass within Particulate Organic Matter of Aging Golf Greens

Mine Kerek, Rhae A. Drijber*, William L. Powers, Robert C. Shearman, Roch E. Gaussoin and Anne Marie Streich

Dep. of Agron. and Hortic., 279 Plant Science, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68583-0915

* Corresponding author (rdrijber1{at}unl.edu)

Received for publication June 21, 2000. Microbial biomass (MB) is a key variable controlling soil organic matter dynamics in soil. Currently, there is little information on the amount and significance of MB in highly managed golf greens. Our objective was to determine the amount and distribution of MB within soil structural components of golf greens and its relationship to the location of organic substrates. During 1996, 47 greens were sampled from 12 golf courses within Nebraska (USA). Microbial biomass, determined as extractable lipid phosphate on field-moist soils, increased linearly with age of green . In 1997 and 1999, selected greens were resampled and separated into mineral fraction (MF) and particulate organic matter (POM) fraction using a sodium metatungstate (NMT; r = 2.3 g cm-3). Then, POM was separated into light (L-POM) and heavy (H-POM) fractions using NMT . Amount of MB of whole soil and POM was linearly related to green age (r2 = 0.76 and 0.68, respectively). Amount of MB in MF was not related to green age. The portion of total soil MB associated with POM increased significantly from 25.6% for an 8-yr-old green to 77.8% for a 28-yr-old green. Carbon in fulvic acid and humic acid increased with green age from 0.5 to 1.7 and 0.6 to 2.6 g kg-1 soil, respectively. As humus is a relatively stable form of soil organic matter, we hypothesized that humus accumulation within POM renders both POM and associated MB more resistant to degradation; thus, they accumulate.

Abbreviations: CC, country club • FA-C, fulvic acid carbon • HA-C, humic acid carbon • H-POM, heavy particulate organic matter • lipid-P, extractable lipid phosphate • L-POM, light particulate organic matter • MB, microbial biomass • MF, mineral fraction • NMT, sodium metatungstate • POM, particulate organic matter






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