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Structural sustainability of cambisol under different land use system

Paula Cristina Caruana Martins, Moacir de Souza Dias Junior, Ayodele Ebenezer Ajayi, Fátima Maria de Souza Moreira

01/Dec/2012

Incongruous management techniques have been associated with some significant loss of agricultural land to degradation in many parts of the world. Land degradation results in the alteration of physical, chemical and biological properties of the soil, thereby posing a serious threat to sustainable agricultural development. In this study, our objective is to evaluate the changes in a Cambisol structure under six land use systems using the load bearing capacity model. Sampling was conducted in Amazonas Region, Brazil, in the following […]