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Provedor de dados: | 53
País: | Brazil
Título: | Soil structural quality degradation by the increase in grazing intensity in integrated crop-livestock system
Autores: | Auler,André Carlos; Galetto,Shivelly Los; Hennipman,Fabrício Siqueira; Guntzel,Eduardo Daniel; Giarola,Neyde Fabíola; Fonseca,Adriel Ferreira da.
Data: | 2017-12-01
Ano: | 2017
Palavras-chave: | Cattle trampling; Soil compaction; Visual Evaluation of Soil Structure.
Resumo: | ABSTRACT The intensification of soil use, as in integrated croplivestock system (ICLS), might promote soil structural degradation. A field method to evaluate the soil structural quality is the Visual Evaluation of Soil Structure (VESS). Studies on the application of this method to ICLS are few. This work aimed to evaluate the structural quality of a Dystrudept under ICLS and different grazing intensities through VESS. Thus, the soil structure was evaluated in light grazing (LG) and heavy grazing (HG) in comparison to a neighboring native forest (NF) as reference area. After the grazing period, 10 trenches were dug in each area to collect soil monoliths. The identification of structural differences and the attribution of visual scores were carried out according to the VESS. In NF and HG soils, up to 30 cm deep, it was possible to identify 2 layers with distinct structures, while, in the LG, up to 3 layers were identified. The NF soil presented the best structural quality. Regarding both grazing intensities, there was degradation of the structural quality between soil layers when compared to the NF. The increase in grazing intensity in ICLS promoted in-depth degradation of the soil structural quality. The VESS method was shown suitable to evaluate soils under ICLS management with LG and HG.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0006-87052017000400550
Editor: | Instituto Agronômico de Campinas
Relação: | 10.1590/1678-4499.2016.310
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Bragantia  v.76 n.4 2017
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess