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| Author(s): |
Ciniro Costa Junior
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Piracicaba. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura (CENA/STB) |
| Defense date: | 2008-05-07 |
| Examining board members: |
Marisa de Cassia Piccolo;
Marcos Antonio Vieira Ligo;
Maria Helena Moraes
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| Advisor: | Marisa de Cassia Piccolo |
| Abstract | |
The Savannah biome occupies 20% of the Brazilian territory, approximately, and of their 207 million hectares, 14 are taken by agriculture (grains productions) and 50 for farming (cultivated pastures). In that way, the knowledge of soil organic matter (SOM) dynamics and the soil aggregation with the different uses and agricultural handlings after the conversion of the native system is very important for the socioeconomic development, environmental preservation and the sustainability of the productive systems. Therefore, the objective of this research was to evaluate the alterations of C and N stocks, the aggregation, the SOM fractionation, the origin of C and N (delta13C e delta15N) - and the microbiological properties of the soil. The study was accomplished in a Oxisol (clayey Red Dystrophic Latosol) with 50-70% of clay in the municipal district of Rio Verde (Goias state, Brazil) (\'17GRAUS\'39\'07\'\'S and \'51GRAUS\'06\'49\'\'W). The areas consisted of a native system of Savannah (CE) phytophysionomy (Cerradão), a pasture of low productivity with 20 years (PA -20), a conventional till with 29 years (SPC -29) and four no-till areas with 3 (SPD -3), 7 (SPD -7), 10 (SPD -10) and 15 (SPD -15) years of use. The soil samples from different depths (0-5, 5-10, 10-20, 20-30 and 30-40cm) were collected in July of 2006 (dry seasonal) and February of 2007 (rainy seasonal). The soil C stock, besides having compared among the study areas, its were also compared to the results obtained at the same places in a study accomplished previously, 3 years ago (2004). The C content and stock were higher (0-40cm) in the areas under CE, SPD-15 and SPD-10 and the bulk soil was lower in relation to the other areas. In the medium period of 3 years (2004 to 2007) there were not statistical differences among the storage of C, while the bulk soil were increased significantly in the areas SPC-29 and SPD-7. The areas under SPD showed medium rate of annual C accumulation in the soil valued to as 1.17 Mg ha-1. Those results suggested that the practice of SPD in the verified areas, preceded by 9 years of cultivation under SPC system, it took approximately ten years for the re-establishment of the C stock similar to the original vegetation (CE). Similar aggregation of the soil was verified in the dry and rainy seasons, with predominance of aggregates > 2.00mm in all areas and soil layers evaluated. In CE and in the PA-20 the largest mean weighed diameters (MWD) and amounts of aggregates were observed > 2,00mm, and the till systems affected negatively that variables. In the different agricultural systems, SPD had the largest values MWD and aggregates > 2.00mm in comparison with SPC-29 in the layer 0-5cm of soil. In relation to light free fraction from SOM and C and N in the soil aggregates, CE and SPD-15 in comparison to other areas indicated larger values, with intermediate SPD-10 (except N). The C content, mainly in the aggregate class > 0,25mm (layer 0-5cm of soil), DMP and C stock C (0-20cm) showed positive correlation. In that way, the observations regarding C and the soil aggregation showed that the preservation and the maintenance of the aggregates class > 0.25mm were fundamental processes to the largest levels of C observed in CE, SPD-10 and SPD-15 systems. The amount of light free fraction verified, responsible component for the maintenance soil aggregates, is in agree with the observed correlation. In the PA-20 area, even with high soil aggregation, probably for the low productivity of the grassy, there was not enough readiness of C (through SOM) for the maintenance of the aggregates classes, resulting in the smallest storage of C in relationship the other areas (except to SPC -29). The same deficiency of SOM happened in the area SPC-29, but in that case due to the rotation of the soil that accelerated the oxidation of the SOM, because the contribution of cultural residues in the area is similar to SPD, because these use the same cultures succession. The more negative values of delta13C observed in CE is due by the higher predominance of plants with C3 photosynthetic cycle. The same significant pattern of enrichment of delta13C and delta15N happened in the depth of the soil due to the SOM mineralization, with exception of the delta13C values in the PA-20 systems, due probably by the gradual substitution of the original SOM in the 20 years of CE transfer to PA-20 systems. The smallest delta15N values in CE system can be indicating larger N biological fixation in relation to the pasture. Of the original SOM of CE, 83% was exchange in the PA-20 area and in spite of the high exchange, the lowers productivity of the grassy might have influenced in the smallest C stock in the PA-20 to CE system. Differences were not verified in the values of delta13C e delta15N among the soil aggregates classes in each researched area. The microbial C e N values (Cmic and Nmic), as well as the relationship with the C e N contents and the qCO2 were influenced by the seasonal stations, being C e N larger and the qCO2 smaller at the rainy seasonal. The smaller qCO2 values in the rainy seasonal reflect the largest efficiency of C immobilization in the microbial biomass. The largest values of Cmic and Nmic were observed in the PA-20 and the smallest in SPC -29. Those results indicated better conditions to the microbial development in the PA-20 probably due to the grassy cultivation, the animal excretion and the reform of the area (December /2007). The adoption of SPD was an important factor in the Cmic and Nmic increase in relation to SPC, possibly due to the non soil rotation, the contribution of vegetables residues on the soil surface and- better microbial biomass adapted to the new condition of NT implantation. The Cmic and Nmic indicated alterations in the new areas implanted in relation to the CE and it pointed larger balance of the microbiota in CE system (AU) | |