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Physical resilience of two red oxisols under no-tillage

Marina Araújo Bavoso, Alvaro Pires da Silva, Getulio Coutinho Figueiredo, Cássio Antonio Tormena, Neyde Fabíola Balarezo Giarola

01/Dec/2012

The physical resilience of soil is the result of regenerative processes with cycles of wetting and drying, freezing and thawing, as well as of biological activities. This study tested the hypothesis that the physical properties of soil such as soil permeability, bulk density, aeration porosity, and total porosity are efficient physical indicators to quantify the resilience of soils with different textures exposed to mechanical stress (compression) and after subsequent wetting and drying cycles. The objective was to evaluate the behavior […]