Soil compaction due to forest harvest operations

Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira

Moacir De Souza Dias Junior²  Sebastião Da Fonseca¹  Cezar Francisco Araújo Júnior²  Arystides Resende Silva² 

[1] ,Universidade Federal de Lavras Dep. de Ciência do Solo Lavras MG ,Brazil

关键词: Eucalyptus;    soil structure;    preconsolidation pressure;    bearing;    capacity model;    Eucalyptus;    estrutura do solo;    pressão de preconsolidação;    modelos;    capacidade de suporte de carga;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0100-204X2007000200015

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

The objective of this work was to determine, through the use of the bearing capacity model, the traffic effects of the forest harvest operations on the preconsolidation pressure (sigmap), during one cycle of the eucalyptus plantation. The work was conducted using undisturbed soil samples, collected at the surface of the A horizon and in the top of the B horizon of an Udult (PA), Aquox (FX) and Udox (LA) soils. The undisturbed soil samples were used in the uniaxial compression tests. The soil sampling was done before and after the harvest operations. The operations performed with the Forwarder caused greater soil compaction than the ones done with the Feller Büncher and Harvester. The percentage of soil samples, in the region with additional soil compaction, indicated that the Udult was the soil class more susceptible to soil compaction, followed by the Aquox and Udox. Despite Udult is the more susceptible to soil compaction, the regeneration of the soil structure in this soil class was more efficient than in Aquox. The percentage of soil samples with sigmap values in the region with additional soil compaction in 1996, 1998 and 2004, after harvest operations, indicated a sustainable forest exploration in this period.

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