2023-10-022023-10-02https://bc.iung.pl/handle/123456789/28Phosphorus is an important life-supporting nutrient and therefore it is often applied in fertilizers. As a result, its pool in soil may increase due to the presence of various elements effectively binding P, making it unavailable to plants. Each soil exhibits many characteristics important in P cycling, with theaeration state (redox potential and moisture), pH, and the presence of N, Ca, and Fe being the most important. In addition, agriculturalpractices, e.g. fertilization, may strongly affect P pools in the soil. We studied 7 different, both cultivated and natural, soil types from Lubelskie region. We found that agricultural practices strongly affected the soil aeration state, pH, and moisture level reducing them significantly. As a result, phosphate concentrations increased significantly up to 10 mg kg-1 in comparison to ca. 2? 4 mg kg-1 in non-cultivated soils. This was caused by changesin soil characteristics depending on the soil type (availability of N, Ca, and Fe). The levels of nitrates increased up to 50 mg kg-1, favouring P immobilization. It could be concluded that the soil aeration state (related to the manner of soil use) is important in P cycling through the effect on other soil characteristics, which differ among soil types.Prawa autorskie (c) 2021 Polish Journal of Agronomyhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/arable soils, phosphate availability, soil characteristics, land useinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article