Volume 24, Number 3, 2000

The determination of soil potential acidity (H + Al) extracted by the 0.5 mol L-1 calcium acetate solution is a routine analysis in Brazilian soil laboratories. However, due to analytical facilities, it is becoming a regular procedure to estimate the values of potential acidity using the equilibrium pH of the soil suspension with the SMP solution. The aim of this study was to look at the relationship between pH SMP and H + Al in soils of Pernambuco, in order […]

Different sites of an iron mining from Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil, were evaluated for determining the degree of their degradation or reclamation, using microbial activity of soil, spore numbers of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and total count of fungi and bacteria. Each site contained a substrate characterized as flotation refuse (Rj), Soil without vegetation (SS), Subsoil (Ss), Subsoil with vegetation (SsV), site under recuperation (AR) and forest (MS), and was sampled at 10-25 cm. Establishment of grasses and “candeia” (Vanillosmopsis […]

In this study the relationship between the pH SMP and H + Al concentrations was evaluated, in order to establish an equation for estimating the potential acidity of soils from Northeastern Brazil. The H + Al concentration (calcium acetate 0.5 mol L-1, pH 7.0) and pH SMP were analyzed in 81 soil samples. Soil carbon content ranged from 1.8 to 35.6 g kg-1, and clay content varied from 60 to 590 g kg-1. The equation H + Al = 31.521(pH […]