Certain soil characteristics and light conditions of enzyme activities and variance conditional to plant type

• Published in: Environmental monitoring and assessment Vol. 192; no. 4; p. 229
• Main Author: Kravkaz Kuscu, Inci Sevinc
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.04.2020; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution; Betula; Betula pendula; Calcium carbonate; Catalase; Earth and Environmental Science; Ecology; Ecotoxicology; Environment; Environmental conditions; environmental factors; Environmental Management; Environmental Monitoring; Enzymatic activity; Enzyme activity; Enzymes; Enzymes - metabolism; Euonymus japonicus; Flowers & plants; Gleditsia triacanthos; Light; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis; Photosynthesis; Plant Development; Plant growth; Plant species; Plants; Plants (botany); Prunus cerasifera; Soil; Soil characteristics; Soil composition; Soil Microbiology; Soil Pollutants; soil properties; Soils; Tilia tomentosa; Urease; variance; Variance analysis; Vegetation; Soil composition; Shade conditions; Environmental conditions; Euonymus japonica; Gleditsia triacanthos; Tilia tomentosa; Betula pendula; Prunus cerasifera
• DOI: 10.1007/s10661-020-8194-5
• ISSN: 0167-6369; 1573-2959

Soil is one of the most important factors in plant cultivation, and its content affects plant growth significantly. However, soil composition and characteristics vary depending on the environmental conditions in the area where the soil is located. In this study, urease and catalase enzyme activities in plant soils grown under different shade conditions were examined. The Prunus cerasifera , Tilia tomentosa , Gleditsia triacanthos , Euonymus japonica , and Betula pendula species were grown in five different light conditions during one vegetation period, and the urease and catalase enzyme activities and Ph, EC (mS.cm ̄ 1 ), CaCO 3 (%), OM (%), P (ppm), and K (ppm) changes were examined within the scope of the study. As a result, it was found that characteristics other than Ph, which was the subject of the study, changed to a great extent depending on the plant species and light conditions; however, in the areas where different plant species were grown, the soil characters changed at different levels depending on the light. As a result of the study, the highest values in many characteristics were obtained under 45% and 65% light conditions.