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| Author(s): |
Renato Meulman Leite da Silva
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Piracicaba. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALA/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2012-02-13 |
| Examining board members: |
Antonio Natal Gonçalves;
Jean Pierre Daniel Bouillet;
Jose Luiz Stape
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| Advisor: | Antonio Natal Gonçalves |
| Abstract | |
The nutrients are essentials resources to wood production, therefore a nutritional management is needful to maintain a sustainable productivity on forests plantations, which contribute as a important sector in the Brazilian economy, mainly due to Eucalyptus plantations, common in São Paulo state. These plantations cover extensive landscapes, over different sites, climate and soil conditions and the productivity can be limited by low soils fertility or a inappropriate fertilization management. This study aimed to identify nutritional limitation, evaluate the effect of the soil, climate and silviculture characteristics on fertilization response and determine the attainable productivity in Eucalyptus plantations widespread around 52,700 ha in different regions in São Paulo state. The Twin Plot design was used in 161 plots which receive additional fertilizations. These plots account stands of 2 to 4 years old, seedling or clonal plantations and establishment or coppice forests. The plots were paired and compared for 2.5 years with others which receive the usual fertilization management and through growth estimates to determine the fertilization response (FR) to each block (pair of plots). The results showed an attainable productivity of 49 m³.ha-1.yr-1 (22 Mg.ha-1.yr-1), 11% greater than the actual and also showed a capacity to reach 62 m³.ha-1.yr-1 (28 Mg.ha-1.yr-1), at the south of state, more productivity local. The average FR was 11,8 m³.ha-1.yr-1 (5,3 Mg.ha- 1.yr-1). Beyond the increment on wood productivity, the treatment with extra fertilizations also increased the leaf area index (LAI) and the light use efficiency. The south region also was the most responsive to the fertilizations management, which was a good correlation with the climate data (rainfall and water deficit). The contents of organic matter, clay, sand and sum of bases was the soil characteristics more correlated to the FR, at the studied forest. Beyond the difference between the regions, FR was different for soil type, texture, and genetic materials. The each local analysis presented good correlations between FR and some soil characteristics: sand, silt, clay, sum of bases, Magnesium (Mg), Potassium (K) and Phosphorous (P) contents. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 09/11548-1 - Fertilizer response to eucalyptus plantations and its correlation with the soil, climate and silvicultural characteristics in differents regions of São Paulo State |
| Grantee: | Renato Meulman Leite da Silva |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |