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Porosity and water retention in an acrisol under conventional and no-till systems under uniaxial compression

Edson Campanhola Bortoluzzi, Vanderlei Rodrigues da Silva, Claudia Petry, Dileta Cecchetti

01/Aug/2008

To date, little is known about the dynamics of water and air in porous spaces of soils exposed to mechanical stresses, mainly when the pressure is located on the pre-consolidation line. This study aimed to quantify the changes in the porous spaces of an Acrisol under two tillage systems, submitted to increasing one-dimensional compression, emphasizing the bulk density and water retention at two water potential levels. Undisturbed soil samples were collected under conventional tillage (CT) and no-till (NT), with three […]