Bachelor's in Agronomy from Universidade de São Paulo (1993), master of science in Soil and Plant Nutrition from Universidade de São Paulo (1996) and PhD in Soil and Plant Nutrition from Universidade de São Paulo (1999). Full professor at the Soil Science Department of the Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz/Universidade de São Paulo. Has experience in Agronomy, focusing on Soil Conservation and Rehabilitation of Degraded Areas acting on the following subjects: soils, soil genesis, soil erosion, and soil micromorphology. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The experience accumulated by Prof. Selma Simões de Castro in teaching Pedology since the 1970's, initially at USP and afterwards at UFG, at graduate and undergraduate levels permitted to foresee the lack of books and bibliographic material in the area of Soil Micromorphology. This project pretends to fill in this lack of bibliography by writing and publishing a book titled "Soil Micromor…
Familiar agriculture has been identified as major modifier of Amazon vegetation. These small establishments have presented several problems of land use, availability and quality of water resources and crop production. Towards this problem, the aim of this project is understand soil degradation processes through morphologic, chemical and physical-hydric characterization of two topossequenc…
Integrated agricultural systems comprise a promising alternative to promote soil quality and to provide ecosystem services. This project aims to assess soil physical quality in integrated agricultural systems, pastures and in native forest with on-farm, analytical and digital measurements. Six soil management systems will be sampled in an experimental farm of the Brazilian Agricultural Re…
Sugarcane, the second commodity of Brazilian agribusiness, is largely cultivated under conventional tillage and this has been cause for concern since this system of soil preparation and management promotes degradation of soil quality. Therefore, the general objective of this research is to evaluate the hydro-physical and biological functioning of a soil cultivated with sugarcane under dif…
Soil hydrophysical characterization is essential to understand the soil/water/plant/atmosphere relations. The study of the soil hydrophysical functioning is important to understand the dynamics of the water fluxes and, consequently, understand the soil water behavior and its availability for plants. Quantitative studies of the morphology and size of aggregates and pores (micromorphometric…
The uncontrolled expansion of agriculture in the areas of natural vegetation added to inadequate soil management has caused acceleration of erosion processes. Such acceleration generates an increase in the quantity of sediments that are deposited in the lower areas of the relief, which usually are water bodies. Riparian forests are crucial in trapping sediment as they prevent these, loade…
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Integrated crop-livestock-forest systems potentially offer a more sustainable basis for agricultural production than non-integrated systems. Although integrated systems are advanced as a possible way to strengthen and expand the provision of ecosystem services, there is a lack of data due to the limited number of studies on this topic. This project addresses this scarcity of data by aimin…
Although sugarcane is considered one of the most sustainable crops for the production of biofuels, the expansion of cultivation areas, together with the current practices of soil and crop management used, have raised controversial issues regarding the sustainability of this crop, especially because the cultivation system used by most sugarcane producers has been causing degradation of soi…
The study of attributes related to soil structure allows inferences on soil behavior and are important to soil characterization. Some institutions as USDA and EMBRAPA recommend the use of soil quality parameters to verify impacts that can occur on-site caused by a soil with poor functioning. Some quantitative indexes are related to soil quality and can be used to rank soil uses and manage…
Originally the Atlantic Forest formed a continuous area covering more than 1.000.000 km2 of Brazilian territory. Nowadays this biome suffers with constant degradation and only 8% of this cover remains, mostly like secondary forest fragments.This study was located in a permanent plot located inside the Caetetus Ecological Station, which has one of the most significant remnants of semi deci…
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