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Type: Artigo de Periódico
Title: Changing the land use from degraded pasture into integrated farming systems enhance soil carbon stocks in the cerrado biome
Authors: Igor Costa de Freitas
Matheus Almeida Alves
Arlen Nicson Lopes Pena
Evander Alves Ferreira
Leidivan Almeida Frazão
Abstract: Integrated agricultural production systems can increase soil organic carbon stocks over time and contribute to the mitigation of climate change. The present study aimed to evaluate soil carbon stocks, accumulation rates (TOC), total nitrogen (TN), and the quality of soil organic matter (SOM) after the transition of a low-productivity pasture into agrosilvopastoral systems in the Cerrado biome. We evaluated an 11-year-old experiment, and the treatments studied were: Eucalyptus + buffel grass; Eucalyptus + cowpea; Eucalyptus + pigeon pea; eucalyptus + buffel grass + cowpea; Eucalyptus + buffel grass + pigeon pea; Eucalyptus in monoculture (with a 20 × 3 m tree arrangement and no cultivation between rows but with a history of forage and grain crop production); and a low-productivity pasture as additional treatment and reference to the soil condition previously the land-use change. In this study, TOC and TN stocks and accumulation, labile (LC) and non-labile carbon (NLC), and SOM humic fractions were evaluated at 0-10, 10-20, 20-40, and 0-40 cm depth layers. Integrated farming systems have increased TOC and TN, NLC, carbon contents and stocks in SOM chemical fractions in all depths and TOC and TN accumulation of 5.22 Mg ha-1 year-1 and 0.23 Mg ha-1 year-1, respectively, at the 0-40 cm depth layer. The integration of Eucalyptus with legumes or buffel grass increased the LC content in the surface layer of the soil. The transition from low-productivity pasture into integrated farming systems can promote the recovery of SOM and soil quality. Hence, our results suggest that agrosilvopastoral systems can be used as sustainable farming systems in the Cerrado biome.
Subject: Cerrados
Agrossilvicultura
Pastagens - Manejo
Solos - Teor de carbono
Substâncias húmicas
Humus
Leguminosas
language: eng
metadata.dc.publisher.country: Brasil
Publisher: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Publisher Initials: UFMG
metadata.dc.publisher.department: ICA - INSTITUTO DE CIÊNCIAS AGRÁRIAS
Rights: Acesso Aberto
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: https://doi.org/10.4025/actasciagron.v46i1.63601
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/83833
Issue Date: 12-Dec-2023
metadata.dc.url.externa: https://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciAgron/article/view/63601
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: Acta Scientiarum. Agronomy
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