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| Author(s): |
Marcelino Carneiro Guedes
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Piracicaba. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALA/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2005-03-08 |
| Examining board members: |
Fabio Poggiani;
Jean Paul Laclau;
Wanderley José de Melo;
Adriana Marlene Moreno Pires;
Jose Luiz Stape
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| Advisor: | Fabio Poggiani |
| Abstract | |
The treatment of wastewaters generates the sewage sludge, a residue that could be used to increase the productivity of both farming and forest plantations. The general aim of this work was to evaluate how biosolid affects the biogeochemistry of nutrients at an Eucalyptus grandis plantation. The study site is at the Experimental Station of Itatinga, linked to the Forest Sciences Department of the ESALQ/USP. The trial was installed on March 1998 in randomized blocks design, with five treatments (control, inorganic mineral fertilizer, 10 Mg ha-1 of biosolid + KP, 20 Mg ha-1 of biosolid + K and 40 Mg ha-1 of biosolid + K). The results showed that the biosolid application alters both the development and the nutritional state of eucalypts, as well as the patterns of nutrients recycling. There was an significant increment in the arboreal biomass production of the eucalypts that received 10 Mg ha-1 of biosolid + mineral K e P, in relation to the control treatment, and higher average production than the eucalypts that received full mineral fertilization. With the increase of biosolid rates, there was a significant increase on the production of litter-fall and on the nutrients soil devolution. During four years, the trees under the largest biosolid dose produced and returned to the soil 20 Mg of leaves-fall, 5340 kg more than the control trees and 2422 kg more than the eucalypts that received fertilization. The used alkaline biosolid presents reduced degradation rates. Just the biosolid applied at a 20 Mg ha-1 dose reduced the dry mass by more that one half, reaching a medium rate of 2.42 Mg ha-1 year-1. The biosolid application does not alter the leaves-fall eucalypts mass loss rate, appraised in senescent leaves. However, the residue affects the mineralization dynamics and nutrients liberation, mainly, by blocking the immobilization of N and accelerating its liberation from the leaves decomposing. The eucalypts under the treatment "10+KP" presented more accumulated biomass in all of their components, so they reached 62% more aboveground biomass in comparison to the control plants. For those eucalypts that presented the highest productivity, the total biomass of trunk accumulated in five years was 94,9 Mg ha-1; consequently, the mean annual increment (MAI) was of 19 Mg ha-1 year-1. The treatment "10+KP" also presented high mineral mass of N, P, S and Zn. By the other hand, the treatment "10+KP" presents smaller values of mineral mass of Ca than the eucalypts under the treatments "20+K" and "40+K" and smaller mineral mass of Mg than the eucalypts that received mineral fertilization. In the final phase of the rotation, the biosolid increased the nutrients stocks in all compartments of the ecosystem. The P, Ca and Zn labile pool soil was higher with biosolid application than fertilized soil, what assures higher capacity in maintaining sustainability productivity of the ecosystem when biosolid is applied. (AU) | |