ABSTRACT Antimicrobial resistance is a global public health concern that requires an integrated approach including human, animal and environmental health. Agricultural environments, such as soil, animal waste and irrigation water, play crucial roles in the dynamics of antimicrobial resistance, as they act as reservoirs and pathways for disseminating resistance determinants. However, these agricultural environments are still often underestimated or neglected in many studies. This study aimed to address antimicrobial resistance in agricultural environments in Brazil and summarize the current state […]

Routine tests to determine physical and chemical soil properties have been used for several years. However, due to economic and environmental problems, new assessment methods must be developed. In this context, diffuse reflectance spectroscopy is a promising and quick tool in the determination of these properties. The objective of this work was to study the spectral behavior of the silt, sand and clay fractions and evaluate the possibility of quantifying these properties with regression models generated for each individual element. […]

The understanding of the relationships between geology, geomorphology and pedology underlies activities of soil classification and the evaluation of the pedological distribution of an area. This study was motivated by the lack of reports of this nature for the region of Lavras (MG), where several soil classes occur, related to a great petrological variety in the parent material and different geomorphological domains. The objective was to study the relationships between parent materials (pedogeological relationship), relief classes (pedogeomorphological relationship) and soils […]

Information Systems store detailed information on land resources, so that these can be accessed, combined, and analyzed for several purposes from different points of view. In Brazil, the information produced in soil surveys has not been efficiently made available, due to the great volume, complexity, and little standardization. Thus, with the objective of enabling the storage, manipulation, and disposal of information on Brazilian soils, the SigSolos System was developed. SigSolos was structured to allow the storage of information originated from […]