Aggregation and dynamics of soil organic matter under different management systems in the Brazilian Cerrado
José Luiz Rodrigues Torres
A F , Venâncio Rodrigues e Silva B , Danyllo Denner de Almeida Costa B , Marcos Gervasio Pereira C , Shirlei Almeida Assunção C , Antonio Paz Gonzalez D , Luiz Alberto da Silva Rodrigues Pinto C and Arcangelo Loss E
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A Soil Management and Conservation Department, Federal Institute of Triângulo Mineiro, Uberaba - MG, Brazil. Zip code: 38064-790.
B Agronomy/Soil Department, Federal University of Uberlândia, Uberlândia - MG, Brazil. Zip code: 38400-902.
C Soil Science Department, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ), Seropédica - RJ. Zip code: 23890-000.
D Soil Science Department, University of Coruña (UDC), La Coruna - Spain. Zipe code: 15.008.
E Soil Science, Department Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianopolis -SC. Brazil.Zip code: 88034-000.
F Corresponding author. Email: jlrtorres@iftm.edu.br
Soil Research 59(7) 715-726 https://doi.org/10.1071/SR20230
Submitted: 4 November 2020 Accepted: 15 March 2021 Published: 18 June 2021
Abstract
The objectives of this study were to evaluate the stability of aggregates, and quantify the contents and stocks of total organic carbon (TOC), and granulometric and humic fractions of soil organic matter (SOM). Four management systems were evaluated: (1) a no-tillage system (NTS) implemented 5 years ago (NTS5); (2) NTS implemented 17 years ago (NTS17); (3) conventional tillage system (CTS) implemented 20 years ago (CTS20); and (4) native Cerrado vegetation. For each system, five undeformed and five deformed soil samples were collected from the 0.00–0.05, 0.05–0.10, 0.10–0.20, and 0.20–0.40 m layers. The weighted mean diameter (WMD), TOC, stock of carbon (StockC), organic carbon particulate (OCp), organic carbon associated with minerals (OCam), stock of OCp, stock of OCam, carbon stock index, carbon management index (CMI), organic carbon in the fulvic acid fraction (FAF), humic acid fraction (HAF), and humin fraction were quantified. The WMD and CMI values increased as the soil management intensity decreased. The adoption of the NTS increased the WMD and the contents, stocks, and proportions of TOC in the more labile granulometric and humic (FAF/HAF) fractions of the SOM. The WMD, CMI, granulometric and chemical fractionation of the SOM were more efficient than the TOC and StockC in identifying the differences between the management systems. Due to the higher contents of the more labile fractions of SOM, the granulometric and chemical fractionation of SOM in the NTS5 and NTS17 systems had higher values of WMD and CMI than the CTS20 system.
Keywords: no-tillage system, weighted mean diameter, organic carbon particulate, humic acid, fulvic acid, soil management, organic matter.
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