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Organic matter quality and carbon and nitrogen stocks in an Oxisol treated with biosolids and cultivated with eucalyptus

Cristiano Alberto de Andrade, Claudeir de Oliveira, Carlos Clemente Cerri

01/Oct/2005

The objective of this study was to determine the effect of application of increasing doses of an alkaline biosolid on carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) stocks, as well as on the organic matter quality of an Oxisol cultivated with eucalyptus, after five years of biosolids application. The study was conducted at the Experimental Station of ESALQ/USP, in Itatinga County, São Paulo State, Brazil. The experiment was initiated in March 1998 on an area where a seven-year-old Eucalyptus grandis plantation had […]