Amazon PyroCarbon: quantifying soil carbon responses to fire

• Grant number: 21/00976-4
• Support Opportunities: Research Projects - Thematic Grants
• Start date: April 01, 2022
• End date: March 31, 2027
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Ecology - Ecosystems Ecology
• Agreement: NERC, UKRI
• Principal Investigator: Plínio Barbosa de Camargo
• Grantee: Plínio Barbosa de Camargo
• Principal researcher abroad: Ted Ronald Feldpausch
• Institution abroad: University of Exeter, Exeter , England
• Host Institution: Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura (CENA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Piracicaba , SP, Brazil
• City of the host institution: Piracicaba
• Principal investigators: Raimundo Cosme de Oliveira Junior
• Associated researchers: Antonio Willian Flores de Melo ; Chantelle Burton ; cornelis jan van groenigen ; Edgard Siza Tribuzy ; Jean Pierre Henry Balbaud Ometto ; Karina Gonçalves da Silva ; Leonardo Maracahipes dos Santos ; Luiz Antonio Martinelli ; Luiz Eduardo Oliveira e Cruz de Aragão ; Marcos Silveira ; Maurício Lamano Ferreira ; Paulo Monteiro Brando ; Simone Matias de Almeida Reis ; Sonaira Souza da Silva
• Associated scholarship(s): 25/24693-2 - Training and preparation of samples for isotopic analysis and greenhouse gas measurements using gas chromatography, BP.TT; 23/18333-8 - Quantifying Soil Organic Carbon Responses to Fire at the Landscape Scale in the Amazonia, BP.PD; 23/15402-9 - Interaction between geospatial monitoring of environmental data and soil carbon from fire, BP.PD; 23/12807-8 - Training and preparing samples for isotopic analysis and measuring GEE in gas chromatographic., BP.TT

Abstract

Fires are increasing in Amazonia, transforming C storage. The evaluation of fire effects has traditionally focussed on aboveground C. However, soil organic carbon (SOC) can store half of total tropical forest C 19 and the impact of fire on existing SOC and the fate of new charcoal (pyrogenic C; PyC) is unknown. SOC loss, transformation and gain may have important implications for the C balance of large areas recovering from recent burning or following cycles of slash and burn agriculture, thereby altering the rate of C loss under a warming climate. This project will implement a systematic pan-Amazonian analysis of the response of SOC to recent fire, drought, and climate warming via a robust chronosequence approach, integrated with innovative modelling to inform land management strategies and C budgets. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

REIS, LUCAS DE CAMARGO; PICCOLO, MARISA DE CASSIA; LAMBAIS, GEORGE RODRIGUES; FURLAN, GUILHERME; GUERRA, FERNANDO; DE CAMARGO, PLINIO BARBOSA; BIELUCZYK, WANDERLEI. Plant community and fine-root growth under preserved and passively restored Cerrado sites in southeast Brazil. Journal of Environmental Management, v. 393, p. 16-pg., 2025-08-15. (13/26273-3, 23/18333-8, 21/00976-4)

BIELUCZYK, WANDERLEI; DUARTE, MARINA PIRES; MARTINS, GUILHERME LUCIO; CAMARGO, PLINIO BARBOSA DE; NORONHA, NORBERTO CORNEJO; PICCOLO, MARISA DE CASSIA; TSAI, SIU MUI. Slash-and-burn agriculture disrupts the carbon storage potential and ecosystem multifunctionality of Amazon's secondary forests. AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT, v. 381, p. 15-pg., 2024-12-07. (21/00976-4, 23/18333-8, 22/05561-0, 23/02576-9)

BIELUCZYK, WANDERLEI; DUARTE, MARINA PIRES; DE CAMARGO, PLINIO BARBOSA; NORONHA, NORBERTO CORNEJO; PICCOLO, MARISA DE CASSIA; TSAI, SIU MUI. Restoration of soil health by Amazonian secondary forests is severely eroded by slash-and-burn recurrence. CATENA, v. 254, p. 14-pg., 2025-03-12. (21/00976-4, 23/18333-8)

NAVAL, MARIO LUCAS MEDEIROS; BIELUCZYK, WANDERLEI; ALVAREZ, FACUNDO; CARVALHO, LIDIANY CAMILA DA SILVA; MARACAHIPES-SANTOS, LEONARDO; DE OLIVEIRA, EDMAR ALMEIDA; DA SILVA, KARINA GONSALVES; PEREIRA, MAURIVAN BARROS; BRANDO, PAULO MONTEIRO; MARIMON JR, BEN HUR; et al. Impacts of repeated forest fires and agriculture on soil organic matter and health in southern Amazonia. CATENA, v. 254, p. 13-pg., 2025-06-30. (21/00976-4, 23/18333-8)