The national and international demand for maps of soil properties has increased. The aim of this study was to characterize cohesive soils and associate their variability of particle size, chemical properties, and color to different landforms in agricultural areas and native vegetation using geostatistical techniques. To set up the experiment, we selected three areas of soil consisting of an area planted to soybeans and, contiguous to it, another area with plant cover remaining from three types of cerrado (tropical savanna), […]

Lychnophora pohlii Sch. Bip. (Asteraceae), known as “Arnica mineira”, is widely used in folk medicine and very abundant in the altitude vegetation of rocky grassland. The aim of this work was to study the density of this species and its relationship with soil parameters in rocky grassland in Diamantina, in the Upper Jequitinhonha region, Minas Gerais. Ten contiguous 20 x 50 m plots were marked (total sampled area 10,000 m2) on the campus Juscelino Kubitschek of the Federal University of […]

Soil degradation occurs as a consequence of intensive preparation associated with monocropping systems with deposition of residues that are rapidly decomposed. The objective of this study was to investigate the decomposition rates of different cover plants residues in Latosol (Oxisol) under conventional and no-tillage systems. The cover plants (Crotalaria juncea, Canavalia brasiliensis, Cajanus cajan, Mucuna pruriens, Helianthus annuus, Pennisetum glaucum, Raphanus sativus and natural fallow, as a control) were used in a succession with maize. The cover plants were cut […]

Microbial biomass carbon and organic carbon were measured in a long-term field experiment (20 years) in Planaltina, DF, Brazil, under corn-soybean crop rotation. Six management systems were selected: disk plow before planting (ADPP); disk plow after harvesting (ADPC), no-till after disk plowing in the first year (PDAD); moldboard plow before planting (AVPP); moldboard plow after harvesting (AVPC), no-till after moldboard plowing in the first year (PDAV) and an undisturbed area of Savanna type vegetation, Cerrado (CE) as a reference. Soil samples […]

The objective of this study was to evaluate physical and chemical soil properties and organic carbon dynamics in a Typic Eutroferric Red Latossol under different land uses (no-till system, irrigated and non- irrigated crops, and native forest) in the savanna region of Santa Helena de Goiás, Goiás State, Brazil. Samples were collected from five soil layers (0.0-0.05, 0.05-0.10, 0.10-0.20, 0.20-0.30, and 0.30-0.40 m) and separated in aggregate size groups of above or below 0.25 mm. Chemical and physical analyses determined the total […]