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Soil microbial properties are improved by the adoption of soil management and conservation practices in no-tillage system

Jhonatan Spliethoff ORCID logo , Adriana Knob ORCID logo , Leandro Rampim ORCID logo , Marcelo Marques Lopes Müller ORCID logo , Cristiano Andre Pott ORCID logo

28/Nov/2023

ABSTRACT No-tillage system (NTS) plays a prominent role in conservation agriculture, however, its benefits can be further improved by adopting complementary soil management and conservation practices, such as using autumnal cover crops, contour seeding, and terraces. This study aimed to evaluate how soil biological activity responds to soil management and conservation systems. The treatments consisted of three macroplots with an area of 11.000 m2 each, as follows: a) Non-Terraced catchment (NTC), cultivated in NTS similar to most farmers of the […]

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Diversity and abundance of soil macrofauna in three land use systems in eastern Amazonia

Werica Larissa Farias de Vasconcelos ORCID logo , Diego de Macedo Rodrigues ORCID logo , Rafael Oliveira Carvalho Silva ORCID logo , Sônia Sena Alfaia ORCID logo

19/Jun/2020

ABSTRACT Given the influence of edaphic macrofauna in the physical, chemical, and biological processes that sustain the organic matter cycle in the soil of tropical ecosystems, this study aimed to evaluate the effect of the sequence: Secondary Forest – Pasture – Eucalyptus monoculture on the macrofauna structure in Southeast of Pará State, Brazil. In each land use system, two 350 m transect were taken. The data was collected in 8 sampling sites, which were 50 m apart in each transect […]

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Abundance and Diversity of Soil Macrofauna in Native Forest, Eucalyptus Plantations, Perennial Pasture, Integrated Crop-Livestock, and No-Tillage Cropping

Sheila Trierveiler de Souza, Paulo Cezar Cassol, Dilmar Baretta, Marie Luise Carolina Bartz, Osmar Klauberg, Álvaro Luiz Mafra, [...]

01/Aug/2016

ABSTRACT Intensive land use can affect macrofaunal biodiversity, which is a property that can be used as a soil quality indicator. This study evaluated the abundance and diversity of soil macrofauna and its relation to soil chemical and physical properties in five land use systems (LUS) in the eastern region of Santa Catarina. The following LUS were studied: native forest (NF), eucalyptus plantations (EP), perennial pasture (PP), integrated crop-livestock (ICL), and no-tillage cropping (NT). The macrofauna was quantified in 0.25 […]

Springtails (Hexapoda: Collembola) as soil quality bioindicators in areas with Araucaria angustifolia

Dilmar Baretta, Cristina Seabra Ferreira, José Paulo Sousa, Elke Jurandy Bran Nogueira Cardoso

01/Dec/2008

There is no information about the diversity of springtails associated with Araucaria angustifolia (Bert.) O. Kuntze forests in Brazil. This study was carried out to evaluate the potential of springtail family diversity as a soil quality indicator and to separate different Araucaria areas, using soil chemical and microbiological attributes as explanatory variables. The study was conducted in four areas of: 1. native forest with predominance of Araucaria (NF); 2. Araucaria reforestation (R); 3. Araucaria reforestation burnt by an accidental fire […]

Soil quality under different uses and native Cerrado

Ricardo Araújo, Wenceslau J. Goedert, Marilusa Pinto Coelho Lacerda

01/Oct/2007

Sustainable soil use is becoming increasingly relevant given the increase of anthropic activities. In order to evaluate the soil quality, soil samples were collected from five areas: natural Cerrado (reference), native pasture, planted pasture, annual crops under conventional tillage and pine forest. The areas are located in the Federal District, Brazil, in a clayey Red Yellow Latosol (Acrustox). The following soil quality attributes were measured: bulk density, mechanical resistance to penetration, water infiltration rate, organic matter content, cation exchange capacity, […]

Physical, chemical and biological soil attributes related to aggregate stability of two oxisols under no-tillage in the State of São Paulo, Brazil

G. Dufranc, S. C. F. Dechen, S. S. Freitas, O. A. Camargo

01/Jun/2004

The effect of physical, chemical and biological soil attributes on the stability of wet aggregates of two Oxisols cultivated with annual crops under no tillage for over four years was evaluated. Soils samples were collected in the 0-10 cm layer of two areas in a 100 m square grid marked with a DGPS. One of the areas is located in Campos Novos Paulista county, SP, Brazil (22 º36 ‘ 11 ” latitude and 50 º00 ‘ 09 ” longitude) on […]