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Carbon content in Amazonian Oxisols after forest conversion to pasture

Mário Lopes da Silva Júnior, Thierry Desjardins, Max Sarrazin, Vânia Silva de Melo, Paulo Fernando da Silva Martins, Elaine Rodrigues Santos, [...]

01/Dec/2009

Soil plays an important role in the C cycle, and substitution of tropical forest by cultivated land affects C dynamic and stock. This study was developed in an area of expansion of human settlement in the Eastern Amazon, in Itupiranga, State of Pará, to evaluate the effects of native forest conversion to Brachiaria brizantha pasture on C contents of a dystrophic Oxisol. Soil samples were collected in areas of native forest (NF), of 8 to 10 year old secondary forest […]