The effects of land use and soil management on the physical properties of an Oxisol in Southeast Brazil

Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo

Getulio De Freitas Seben Junior²  José Eduardo Corá¹  Rattan Lal¹ 

[1] ,Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso - UNEMATAlta Floresta MT

关键词: no-tillage;    soil organic carbon;    soil aggregate;    bulk density;    tropical soil;    Cerrado;    plantio direto;    carbono orgânico do solo;    agregado do solo;    densidade do solo;    solo tropical;    Cerrado;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0100-06832014000400021

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

Soils of the tropics are prone to a decrease in quality after conversion from native forest (FO) to a conventional tillage system (CT). However, the adoption of no-tillage (NT) and complex crop rotations may improve soil structural quality. Thus, the aim of this study was to evaluate the physical properties of an Oxisol under FO, CT, and three summer crop sequences in NT: continuous corn (NTcc), continuous soybean (NTcs), and a soybean/corn rotation (NTscr). Both NT and CT decreased soil organic carbon (SOC) content, SOC stock, water stable aggregates (WSA), geometric mean diameter (GMD), soil total porosity (TP), macroporosity (MA), and the least limiting water range (LLWR). However they increased soil bulk density (BD) and tensile strength (TS) of the aggregates when compared to soil under FO. Soil under NT had higher WSA, GMD, BD, TS and microporosty, but lower TP and MA than soil under CT. Soil under FO did not attain critical values for the LLWR, but the lower limit of the LLWR in soils under CT and NT was resistance to penetration (RP) for all values of BD, while the upper limit of field capacity was air-filled porosity for BD values greater than 1.46 (CT), 1.40 (NTscr), 1.42 (NTcc), and 1.41 (NTcs) kg dm-3. Soil under NTcc and NTcs decreased RP even with the increase in BD because of the formation of biopores. Furthermore, higher critical BD was verified under NTcc (1.62 kg dm-3) and NTcs (1.57 kg dm-3) compared to NTscr and CT (1.53 kg dm-3).

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