Potential acidity determination for soils with high soil organic matter

Douglas Luiz Grando ORCID logo , Lucas Peranzoni Deponti ORCID logo , Marcos de Lima Rodrigues ORCID logo , Cauan Guerra Martins ORCID logo , William Natale ORCID logo , Djalma Eugenio Schmitt ORCID logo , [...]

20/mar/2025

ABSTRACT Lime applications are used in acid soils to correct pH and eliminate Al3+ toxicity in crops. The lime rates are determined based on the estimated soil potential acidity (H+Al), using soil incubations with calcium carbonate (CaCO3) for 180 days, being a time-consuming and laborious process. An alternative method with calcium hydroxide [Ca(OH)2] for 96 h incubation may efficiently estimate H+Al, but it needs further studies. Also, soils from specific regions in southern Brazil have high organic matter (SOM) contents […]

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Diagnostic leaves for evaluating dwarf cashew nutritional status

Thais da Silva Martins ORCID logo , Carlos Alberto Kenji Taniguchi ORCID logo , Luiz Augusto Lopes Serrano ORCID logo , William Natale ORCID logo , Danilo Eduardo Rozane ORCID logo , Adriana Guirado Artur ORCID logo

20/mar/2025

ABSTRACT Cashew tree (Anacardium occidentale L.) is a fruit species widely cultivated in Brazil, but the interest in evaluating this plant nutritional status is very recent, to the point there is still no defined diagnostic leaf. This study aimed to define the leaves that reflect the nutritional status of dwarf cashews. Leaf samples were collected from a productive orchard established with four dwarf cashew clones: ‘CCP 76’, ‘BRS 189’, ‘BRS 226’, and ‘BRS 265’. Leaf sampling was performed over four […]

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Gypsic soils in the Brazilian Semiarid

Artur Henrique Nascimento da Silva ORCID logo , Marilya Gabryella Sousa ORCID logo , José Coelho de Araújo Filho ORCID logo , Marcelo Metri Corrêa ORCID logo , Xose Lois Otero ORCID logo , Tiago Osório Ferreira ORCID logo , [...]

19/mar/2025

ABSTRACT Globally, soils with gypsic horizons cover approximately 1 million km², predominantly in arid climates. The formation of pedogenic gypsum in soils has been a topic of discussion in pedological studies for some time, with gypsification representing the process responsible for secondary gypsum accumulation. Even though international classification systems acknowledge the existence of gypsic horizons, there is a paucity of documented evidence concerning their occurrence in Brazilian soils. This study aimed to identify and describe a soil with secondary gypsum […]

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Espodossolos in Brazil: A review of the criteria and conceptualization of the spodic B horizons

Andressa Rosas de Menezes ORCID logo , Ademir Fontana ORCID logo , Lúcia Helena Cunha dos Anjos ORCID logo

19/mar/2025

ABSTRACT The absence of quantitative limits for the diagnostic attributes that define spodic B horizons in the Brazilian Soil Classification System (SiBCS) allows the inclusion of soils in the Espodossolos (the equivalent of Spodosols or Podzols) classes that contradict the classical concepts that define the podzolization process, by including horizons with low organic carbon (Corg) content, and with alkaline pH, high sum of bases and sodic or solodic characteristics. This study aimed to propose quantitative criteria and limits to identify […]

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Cover crops in between-rows of Coffea canephora for reduction of soil erosion

Gustavo Soares de Souza ORCID logo , Mateus Lopes Domiciano ORCID logo , Gildásio Ribeiro Sarnaglia ORCID logo , Irany Rodrigues Pretti ORCID logo , Petterson Teixeira Gonçalves ORCID logo , Marciano Kaulz ORCID logo , [...]

11/mar/2025

ABSTRACT Soil erosion in tropical environments causes environmental, social and economic damage. Canephora coffee crops are impacted by soil erosion and testing alternatives to mitigate this damage is a current need. This study aimed to evaluate the losses of sediment, organic carbon, nutrients and surface runoff caused by water erosion in between-rows spacing of Coffea canephora Pierre ex A. Froehner plants in management with and without cover crops, and the effect of the intensity of rains on sediment loss and […]

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Biopores, soil decompacting potential, and biomass of Brachiaria cultivars

Milson Evaldo Serafim ORCID logo , Samara Martins Barbosa ORCID logo , Walmes Marques Zeviani ORCID logo , Eduardo da Costa Severiano ORCID logo , Kátia Aparecida de Pinho Costa ORCID logo , Luciano Recart Romano ORCID logo , [...]

07/mar/2025

ABSTRACT Grasses of the Brachiaria genus are widely used as cover crops in no-tillage areas of the Brazilian Cerrado. This study aimed to evaluate the ability of six Brachiaria cultivars to produce shoot and root biomass, and the potential of the root system to grow through a 0.01 m thick wax layer with 1.5 MPa penetration resistance. The plants were grown in PVC columns with a diameter of 0.1 m and a height of 0.7 m. The column was divided […]

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Macrofauna and soil properties in agroforestry system and secondary forest

Aurea Pinto dos Ramos ORCID logo , Sandra Santana de Lima ORCID logo , Cyndi dos Santos Ferreira ORCID logo , Luiz Alberto Rodrigues da Silva Pinto ORCID logo , Robert Ferreira ORCID logo , Anelise Dias ORCID logo , [...]

27/fev/2025

ABSTRACT Atlantic Forest devastation has resulted in the search and introduction of management capable of promoting and reestablishing the quality and sustainability of the ecosystem. Agroforestry systems (AS) are recognized for many benefits due to their management. This study compares an agroforestry system macrofauna and physical and chemical soil properties to those of a secondary forest area in the Atlantic Forest biome in southeast Brazil. Agroforestry system with 8 years of establishment and the regenerating subcaducifolious tropical forest fragment with […]

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Nutrient uptake and removal by runner peanut cultivars of different maturity groups

Carlos Felipe dos Santos Cordeiro ORCID logo , Leonardo Vesco Galdi ORCID logo , Fábio Rafael Echer ORCID logo

27/fev/2025

ABSTRACT Modern runner-type peanut cultivars have high yield potential, but little is still known about the dynamics of nutrient uptake by these cultivars and whether nutrient uptake differs between maturity groups. This study evaluated the growth, nutrient uptake, and nutrient removal of runner-type peanut cultivars with early and late maturity. The study was conducted in the field in the 2021/2022 season, in a sandy soil environment in southeastern Brazil. Treatments consisted of runner-type peanut cultivars (early and late maturity) and […]

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Mechanized harvesting of a Pinus taeda L. forest does not impair the physical properties of a Nitossolo Bruno

Jadiel Andognini ORCID logo , Jackson Adriano Albuquerque ORCID logo , Brayan Favarin de Oliveira ORCID logo

10/fev/2025

ABSTRACT Santa Catarina State, in the South region of Brazil, has 713 thousand hectares of pine forests. Harvesting operations of this species can degrade the soil, especially when carried out on very wet soil. However, there is little information on the impact of pine harvesting on the physical properties of the soil in this region. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of Pinus taeda L. harvesting on the physical properties of a Nitossolo Bruno distrófico típico. Two areas were […]

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Automatic measurement of surface runoff at the plot scale

Lucas Raimundo Rauber ORCID logo , Dalvan José Reinert ORCID logo , Paulo Ivonir Gubiani ORCID logo , Kelvin Salbego Nunes ORCID logo , Micael Stolben Mallman ORCID logo

10/fev/2025

ABSTRACT Although the hydrological importance of water infiltration into the soil and surface runoff is well known, manual measurement of these processes, especially at the plot and hillslope scales, is laborious and requires a trained team. This study aimed to develop prototypes with the tipping bucket principle for the automatic monitoring of surface runoff at a plot scale (14.5 × 3 m). In total, 18 prototypes were built and installed in an experiment with different soil covers. Aspects of the […]

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