Survival Rates of Microbial Communities from Livestock Waste to Soils: A Comparison between Compost and Digestate

Table 1

Chemical properties in soils (n = 20) and livestock waste-based products (digestate, wheat straw compost, and woodchip compost) (n = 3) used in the pot experiment (mean ± SD).

	Soil	Digestate	Wheat straw compost	Woodchip compost
Water content (%)	12.08 ± 3.38	98.4 ± 0.06	81.5 ± 0.37	57.3 ± 0.27
pH	6.3 ± 0.0	7.85 ± 0.01	9.04 ± 0.03	7.35 ± 0.01
Total C (%)	4.00 ± 0.39	—	6.81 ± 0.20	16.9 ± 0.71
Total N (%)	0.38 ± 0.02	0.22 ± 0.00	0.54 ± 0.01	0.80 ± 0.06
C/N ratio	10.6 ± 1.71	—	12.6 ± 0.20	21.2 ± 2.26
P2O5 (%)	—	0.03 ± 0.00	0.41 ± 0.00	0.42 ± 0.04
K2O (%)	—	0.27 ± 0.00	0.99 ± 0.03	0.69 ± 0.01
NH4^+-N (mg·kg^−1 wet soil)	1.93 ± 0.48	1,200 ± 302	100 ± 57.8	21.8 ± 2.80
NO3–N (mg·kg^−1 wet soil)	68.0 ± 16.3	2.50 ± 0.427	8.48 ± 2.89	354 ± 31.0