Sustainable land use in periodically dry Brazilian savannas requires a water-saving management. We hypothesized that the annual course of matric potentials (?M) in very-fine, isohyperthermic Anionic Acrustoxes of Pinus plantations (PI), degraded (DP) and productive pastures (PP), no-till (NT) and...
Lilienfein, J
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Wilcke, W.
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Ayarza, Miguel Angel
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Lima, SC
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Vilela, L
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Zech, W.
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[Annual course of matric potential in differently used savanna oxisols in Brazil]
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Annual course of matric potential in differently used savanna oxisols in Brazil
The objective of this work was to assess the effects of integrated crop-livestock systems, associated
with two tillage and two fertilization regimes, on the abundance and diversity of the soil macrofauna. Four
different management systems were studied: continuous pasture (mixed grass); continuous...
Marchao, RL
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Lavelle, Patrick M.
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Celini, L
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Balbino, LC
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Vilela, L
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Becquer, T
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[Soil macrofauna under integrated crop-livestock systems in a Brazilian Cerrado Ferralsol]
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Soil macrofauna under integrated crop-livestock systems in a Brazilian Cerrado Ferralsol
In the Brazilian savanna, there is a risk that soil fertility of pastures declines to a level below that of the native savanna because of low fertilizer application. To evaluate biophysical pasture sustainability we compared regularly fertilized productive pasture (PP), degraded pasture fertilize...
Lilienfein, J
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Wilcke, W.
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Vilela, L
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Ayarza, Miguel Angel
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Carmo Lima, S. do
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Zech, W.
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[Soil fertility under native cerrado and pasture in the Brazilian savanna]
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Soil fertility under native cerrado and pasture in the Brazilian savanna
The effect of land use on the availability of nitrogen (N) was studied by separating total N into a labile and a stable fraction by oxidation and extraction of labile N with KMnO4. The nitrogen management index (NMI) was calculated following the method of Blair et al. (1995) for the carbon manage...
Westerhof, R
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Vilela, L
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Ayarza, Miguel Angel
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Zech, W.
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[Land use effects on labile N extracted with permanganate and the nitrogen management index in the Cerrado region of Brazil]
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Land use effects on labile N extracted with permanganate and the nitrogen management index in the Cerrado region of Brazil