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Geochemical Signature of Amazon Tropical Rainforest Soils

José João Lelis Leal de Souza, Maurício Paulo Ferreira Fontes, Robert Gilkes, Liovando Marciano da Costa, Teogenes Senna de Oliveira

05/Feb/2018

ABSTRACT: Evaluating soil geochemical diversity in the Amazon Basin has been a challenge largely because most study sites have been at the edge of the basin and it is difficult to get samples in such a region. Here we show that even among the most weathered soils, physicochemical soil properties express lithology. Our results are based on topsoil samples collected from different locations in minimally disturbed areas in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. Soil properties were measured using methods which […]