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Tipo: | Artigo |
Título: | The effect of the presence of a forage legume on nitrogen and carbon levels in soils under Brachiaria pastures in the Atlantic forest region of the South of Bahia, Brazil |
Autor(es): | Cantarutti, R. B. Tarré, R. Macedo, R. Pereira, J. M. Ferreira, E. Alves, B. J. R. Urquiaga, S. Boddey, R. M. Rezende, C. de P. |
Abstract: | The impact of forest clearance, and its replacement by Brachiaria pastures, on soil carbon reserves has been studied at many sites in the Brazilian Amazonia, but to date there appear to be no reports of similar studies undertaken in the Atlantic forest region of Brazil. In this study performed in the extreme south of Bahia, the changes in C and N content of the soil were evaluated from the time of establishment of grass-only B. humidicola and mixed B. humidicola/Desmodium ovalifolium pastures through 9 years of grazing in comparison with the C and N contents of the adjacent secondary forest. The decline in the content of soil C derived from the forest (C3) vegetation and the accumulation of that derived from the Brachiaria (C4) were followed by determining the 13C natural abundance of the soil organic matter (SOM). The pastures were established in 1987, 10 years after deforestation, and it was estimated that until 1994 there was a loss in forest-derived C in the top 30 cm of soil of approximately 20% (9.1 Mg C ha−1). After the establishment of the pastures, C derived from Brachiaria accumulated steadily such that at the final sampling (1997) it was estimated 13.9 Mg ha−1 was derived from this source under the grass-only pasture (0–30 cm). Samples taken from all pastures and the forest in 1997 to a depth of 100 cm showed that below 40 cm depth there was no significant contribution of the Brachiaria-derived C and that total C reserves under the grass/legume and the grass-only pastures were slightly higher than under the forest (not significant at P=0.05). The more detailed sampling under the pastures showed that to a depth of 30 cm there was significantly (P<0.05) more C under the mixed pasture than the grass-only pasture. It was estimated that from the time of establishment the apparent rate of C accumulation (0–100 cm depth) under the grass/legume pastures (1.17 Mg ha−1 yr−1) was almost double that under the grass-only pastures (0.66 Mg ha−1 yr−1). The data indicated that newly incorporated SOM derived from the Brachiaria had a considerably higher C:N ratio than that present under the forest. |
Palavras-chave: | 13C Brachiaria humidicola Deforestation Desmodium ovalifolium Soil carbon accumulation |
Editor: | Plant and Soil |
Tipo de Acesso: | Kluwer Academic Publishers 2001 |
URI: | https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010533721740 http://www.locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/22410 |
Data do documento: | Jul-2001 |
Aparece nas coleções: | Solos - Artigos |
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