ABSTRACT The cultivation of cover crops intercropped with fruit trees is an alternative to maintain mulch cover between plant rows and increase soil organic carbon (C) stocks. The objective of this study was to evaluate changes in soil total organic C content and labile organic matter fractions in response to cover crop cultivation in an orange orchard. The experiment was performed in the state of Bahia, in a citrus orchard with cultivar ‘Pera’ orange (Citrus sinensis) at a spacing of […]

Soils constructed after mining often have low carbon (C) stocks and low quality of organic matter (OM). Cover crops are decisive for the recovery process of these stocks, improving the quality of constructed soils. Therefore, the goal of this study was to evaluate the effect of cover crops on total organic C (TOC) stocks, C distribution in physical fractions of OM and the C management index (CMI) of a soil constructed after coal mining. The experiment was initiated in 2003 […]

The cultivation of crops with different capacity of P uptake and use under long-term soil tillage systems can affect the distribution of P cycling and inorganic forms in the soil, as a result of higher or lower use efficiency of P applied in fertilizers. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of long-term cultivation of different winter species under tillage systems on the distribution of inorganic P forms in the soil. In 1986, the experiment was initiated […]

The addition of fertilizers to the soil increases P contents in many forms of different bond energies with soil colloids. This has been observed in the soil surface layer under no tillage system, however there is little information about the availability of these P forms to plants. The study aimed to evaluate the bioavailability of P forms of a soil under no tillage with P applications. Samples were collected (0-10 cm) in a Rhodic Hapludox that had been fertilized with […]

Increased phosphorus availability in the top soil layer of no-tillage systems can lead to a higher transformation from inorganic into organic phosphorus fractions of different labilities. The preferential phosphorus accumulation forms and fractions under the application of soluble phosphate rates in a no-tillage system were determined. During five and a half years, the following accumulated P2O5 rates: 0, 130, 180, 260, 360, 540, 720, 980, and 1.240 kg ha-1 of P2O5, were applied in the winter and/or summer, whereupon samples of the […]