Morphological characterisation of weathered earthworm casts by 2D-image analysis

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• 作者：N. Bottinelli (123) nicolas.bottinelli@nancy.inra.fr
  P. Jouquet (45)
  T. Duc Tran (4)
  V. Hallaire (12)
• 关键词：Shape of soil aggregates – ; Pore ; space characterisation – ; 2D ; image analysis
• 刊名：Biology and Fertility of Soils
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：October 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：48
• 期：7
• 页码：845-849
• 全文大小：172.5 KB
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• 作者单位：1. INRA, UMR1069 Sol Agro et hydrosyst猫me Spatialisation, 35000 Rennes, France2. Agrocampus Ouest, 35000 Rennes, France3. INRA, UR1138 INRA, Biog茅ochimie des Ecosyst猫mes Forestiers, 54280 Champenoux, France4. IRD 鈥?SFRI, Dong Ngac, Tu Liem, Hano茂, Vietnam5. IRD 鈥?UMR211 BIOEMCO, 32 Avenue H. Varagnat, 93143 Bondy, France
• ISSN：1432-0789

文摘

Earthworm casts weathered by rainfall are difficult to differentiate from surrounding soil aggregates. We tested the hypothesis that morphological characterisation of soil aggregates by 2D-image analysis helps to perform this differentiation. Compact surface casts produced by Amynthas khami and surrounding aggregates lacking visible signs of biological activity (control) were left to disaggregate by natural rainfall and were separated into five size classes (10–5, 5–2, 2–0.5, 0.5–0.25 and <0.25 mm). The external shape and pore-space characteristics of aggregates were measured by image analysis. Casts >2 mm were characterised by less surface roughness and similar round shape than control aggregates. However, casts and control aggregates <2 mm had a similar external shape. The structural porosity of casts >0.25 mm was lower than that of control aggregates, whereas their textural porosity was similar. Therefore, this study demonstrates that measuring the porosity of soil aggregates by 2D-image analysis is a better indicator of earthworm-aggregate origin than external shapes.