Soil erosion modeling and water balance in sugarcane and pasture crops in latosoil

• Grant number: 10/00251-5
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: April 01, 2010
• End date: June 30, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Sanitary Engineering - Water Resources
• Principal Investigator: Edson Cezar Wendland
• Grantee: Edson Cezar Wendland
• Host Institution: Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Recently sugarcane became the culture with largest expansion in São Paulo State, trend that tends to continue considering its energetic importance in Brazil. This expansion occurs mainly on pastures lands, generating new environmental impacts on soils and water. Due to plow requirements replacement of pasture land by sugarcane can increase soil erosion and modify soil water balance. These impacts have not been evaluated as interrelated phenomena up to now. Aims of the proposed research project are to monitor soil erosion, to calibrate erosion models and to quantify water balance on sugarcane and pasture crops. In this sense, erosion plots will be built and monitored on Fazenda Canchim, owned by Embrapa Pecuaria Sudeste, in São Carlos-SP. (AU)

Scientific publications

(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)

YOULTON, CRISTIAN; BRAGION, ANA PAULA; WENDLAND, EDSON. Experimental evaluation of sediment yield in the first year after replacement of pastures by sugarcane. Ciencia e Investigacion Agraria, v. 43, n. 3, p. 374-383, SEP-DEC 2016. (10/00251-5)

YOULTON, CRISTIAN; WENDLAND, EDSON; AYACH ANACHE, JAMIL ALEXANDRE; POBLETE-ECHEVERR-A, CARLOS; DABNEY, SETH. Changes in Erosion and Runoff due to Replacement of Pasture Land with Sugarcane Crops. SUSTAINABILITY, v. 8, n. 7, JUL 2016. (10/00251-5)