The purpose of this study was the characterization of a soil system, focused on proprieties that can clarify the dynamics and contribute to the definition of criteria that determine the ability of these soils as recipients of effluents. An experimental study area was used, adjacent to the Sewage Treatment Station of the municipality of Lins (SP), where the sewage is treated in a system of stabilization ponds. The soil samples, taken from five trenches in a toposequence of a slight […]

The spatial variability of soil characteristics in the Planalto Médio region, State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, was studied in six areas cultivated with soybean. Semivariance and variance analyses were applied to the data obtained by systematic soil sampling to confirm and detail results obtained by nested analysis of variance, and to estimate the variance of characteristics within soil mapping units and the range of its application for land evaluation. Field work was performed from December, 1989 to March, […]