Carbon stocks of an Oxisol after thirty-eight years under different tillage systems

Estoques de carbono em Latossolo após trinta e oito anos sob diferentes sistemas de cultivo

ABSTRACT

Soil carbon (C) stock determination can subsidize discussions on the continuity of an agricultural management. This study aimed to evaluate the stocks of total organic C (S_TOC) and labile C (S_LC), and the indices of C lability (CLI), C compartment (CCI) and C management (CMI), and correlate them with chemical and physical attributes of a Red Yellow Latosol (Oxisol) managed for 38 years with different tillage systems in a Cerrado region of Mato Grosso, Brazil. Disturbed and undisturbed soil samples were collected in three layers (0-0.05, 0.05-0.10 and 0.10-0.20 m). The CMI (CLI x CCI) showed higher S_TOC possibly as the tillage depth decreased, because none of the tillage systems conserved S_TOC and S_LC in the layers of 0-0.05 and 0.05-0.10 m, compared with the Native Cerrado, i.e., soil C conservation only occurred in the layer of 0.10-0.20 m. Although the percentage of S_LC in S_TOC was lower, only S_LC was correlated with soil chemical and physical attributes and, based on the multiple linear regression analysis, S_LC was explained in 54% (R²) by the cation exchange capacity and soil micropores. Therefore, for monitoring purposes, the S_LCestimated can be useful to evaluate soil C storage.

Key words:
soil conservation; crop rotation; soil organic matter

RESUMO

A determinação do estoque de carbono do solo pode subsidiar discussões sobre manejos agropecuários. Objetivou-se determinar os estoques de carbono orgânico total (E_COT) e lábil (E_CL) além dos índices de labilidade (IL), de compartimento (ICC) e de manejo do carbono (IMC) e correlacioná-los com atributos químicos e físicos de um Latossolo Vermelho-Amarelo manejado por 38 anos em diferentes sistemas de cultivo em bioma Cerrado. Coletaram-se amostras deformadas e indeformadas de solo nas camadas de 0-0,05; 0,05-0,10 e 0,10-0,20 m. Verificou-se que: o IMC (IL x ICC) acusou maior E_COT à medida que diminuiu possivelmente a profundidade de revolvimento do solo pois nas camadas de 0-0,05 e 0,05-0,10 m nenhum sistema de cultivo conservou os E_COT e E_CL comparado ao Cerrado nativo, isto é, apenas de 0,10-0,20 m ocorreu conservação do carbono no solo; embora a porcentagem do E_CL sobre o E_COT fosse menor, apenas o E_CL se correlacionou com atributos químicos e físicos do solo e, com base na análise de regressão linear múltipla, o E_CL foi explicado em 54% (R²) pela capacidade de troca de cátions e os microporos do solo. Portanto, para fins de monitoramento a E_{CL estimada} pode ser útil para avaliar a estocagem de carbono no solo.

Palavras-chave:
conservação do solo; rotação de culturas; matéria orgânica do solo

Introduction

There has been a general concern about water limitations and the conservation of non-renewable natural resources. Despite being a renewable resource, the soil is considered as one of the focuses of attention, since it can be degraded physically, chemically and biologically, depending on use and management. In addition, it is known that in the process of substitution of native environments for agricultural activities, changes in the soil are inevitable and, depending on management and the local edaphoclimatic potential, if not adequate for a certain production system, the soil can be economically and environmentally hampered (Silva & Mendonça, 2007). Additionally, there are problems related to the few options of economically viable, large-scale crops for crop rotation in the Cerrado region.

Among the attributes of the soil, which is sensitive to variations in use and management, soil organic matter (SOM) has been the most studied one, because there is a close dependence between various chemical, physical and biological processes in terrestrial ecosystems (Strickland & Rousk, 2010). Many authors have pointed out its importance for soil quality, because it influences, among other properties: aggregate stability and soil structure (Hickmann et al. 2012); water infiltration rate and soil water holding capacity (Rawls et al., 2003); biological activity (Matoso et al., 2012); cation exchange capacity, nutrient cycling and availability to plants (Silva & Mendonça, 2007); ion complexation (Botero et al., 2010); and the release of CO₂ and other gases (Lal & Bruce, 1999).

SOM comprises plant residues at different decomposition stages, besides edaphic organisms involved in this process, and can be associated with mineral matter in different proportions (Santos et al., 2013). It is mainly composed of carbon (C), which is the reason why it is expressed in content of soil organic C (g kg^-1) or mass per unit area (g m^-2) for a certain soil layer. However, its mineralization and release of gas in the form of CO₂ vary according to the degree of alterations caused in the biophysical environment of the soil (Izaurralde & Cerri, 2006). Therefore, C can be useful as an indicator of changes in the amount (C stock) and quality (labile and non-labile C fractions) of organic matter in cultivated soils.

In addition, while the mineralization of labile constituents occurs in a few weeks or months, C in the non-labile fraction is more stable and refers to humic substances and macromolecules of difficult decomposition by microorganisms, showing a slower cycling compared with C_labile. Thus, SOM fractionation based on the decomposition rate can allow better understanding of its dynamic in the soil (Blair et al., 1995; Silva & Mendonça, 2007). Therefore, the evaluation of SOM amount and quality can subsidize discussions on the continuity of a management, revealing its strong and weak points that can enhance the researches on the importance of biodiversity in production systems, besides contributing to the readjustment of cultural practices that aim at the homeostasis of the production system.

Given the above, this study aimed to evaluate the stocks of C_total and C_labile of a Red Yellow Latosol managed for 38 years with different tillage systems, in the Cerrado region of Mato Grosso, Brazil.

Material and Methods

The study was carried out in the municipality of Campo Verde-MT, Brazil (BR 070, km 349), at the geographical coordinates of 15° 28' 41.79'' S and 54° 54' 17.20'' W, in the Mourão Farm, at 694 m of altitude. The climate in the region is Aw, according to Köppen's classification. Rainfall regime is well defined, with a dry period from May to September and a rainy period from October to April. The mean annual precipitation is 1,670 mm and the mean annual temperature is 24 °C. The soil in the experimental area was classified as typical dystrophic Red Yellow Latosol, with clayey texture and moderate texture in the A horizon, located in a Semi-deciduous Tropical Cerrado, on a flat relief (Santos et al., 2013). The tillage history of the evaluated soil is described in Table 1.

Table 1
Soil use systems and their respective tillage histories

Soil use	Symbol	Soil tillage history
Native Cerrado	NC	Fragment of Cerrado (strict sense), without signs of anthropic disturbance, characterized by the presence of small, twisted trees and grasses covering the soil. This area was considered as a control for the comparison with the tillage systems.
Minimum tillage I	MT I	The Cerrado was deforested in 1977, with subsequent cultivation of rice/soybean for 3 years under conventional tillage and, until the 1999/00 season, soybean/corn was cultivated in rotation under conventional tillage, disturbing the soil with heavy harrowing with discs of 32" every 3 years. In 2000/02, cotton was cultivated, followed by gypsum application, two harrowings (32") and seeding of millet in the off-season. In 2002/03, gypsum was applied and the soil was prepared with scarification until 0.30 m, two harrowings (32"), and soybean and corn were sown in the off-season. In 2003/04, gypsum was applied broadcast and cotton was cultivated on corn residues with later destruction of stumps, combining mechanical mowing and a light harrowing to incorporate plant residues. In 2004/07, gypsum was applied, a leveling harrow was used and soybean and millet were cultivated in the off-season. In 2007/08, there were gypsum application, two harrowings (32"), scarification until 0.30 m and cultivation of soybean and corn. In 2008/10, gypsum was applied, a light harrow was used and soybean and corn were cultivated in the off-season. All the fertilizations were performed in the seeding row and followed the technical recommendations for the crops, as also occurred in the systems MT II and MT II, which are described below. Therefore, only in the last two crop seasons there was lower disturbance on soil surface, with a light harrowing before soybean sowing.
Minimum tillage II	MT II	The Cerrado was deforested in 1977, with subsequent cultivation of rice/soybean for 3 years under conventional tillage and, until the 1999/00 season, soybean/corn was cultivated in rotation under conventional tillage, disturbing the soil with heavy harrowing with discs of 32" every 3 years. In 2000/02, millet was cultivated, followed by gypsum application, two harrowings (32") and sowing of cotton. In 2002/03, gypsum was applied and soybean and corn were cultivated in the off-season. In 2003/04, cotton was sown on corn residues. In 2004/06, the soil was prepared with two harrowings (32"), and millet and cotton were sown in rotation. Then, gypsum was applied and the stumps were destroyed, combining a mechanical mowing with a harrowing to incorporate plant residues. In 2006/07, the soil was scarified until 0.30 m and millet and cotton were cultivated in rotation, with later destruction of the stumps. In 2007/08, millet and cotton were sown in rotation, with later destruction of the stumps. In 2008/09, limestone was applied in association with gypsum and soybean and corn were cultivated in the off-season. In 2009/10, cotton was sown on corn residues. Therefore, soil disturbance was more frequent in this tillage system than in the previous one, MT I.
Minimum tillage III	MT III	The Cerrado was deforested in 1976, with subsequent cultivation of rice/soybean for 3 years under conventional tillage and, until the 1999/00 season, soybean/corn was cultivated in rotation under conventional tillage, disturbing the soil with heavy harrowing with discs of 32" every 3 years. In 2000/04, cotton was cultivated, followed by corn, and limestone was applied before the 2001/02 season and incorporated with two harrowings (32"). Cotton stumps were destroyed combining mechanical mowing and harrowing to incorporate plant residues. In 2004/05, the soil was subjected to two harrowings (32"), subsoiled and sown with soybean followed by corn, with later gypsum application. In 2005/06, cotton was cultivated on corn residues. In 2006/10, there were crop rotations with soybean/corn, corn/cotton and soybean/cotton, respectively. Therefore, the soil was harrowed not only when cotton was cultivated, although a heavy harrow was used just at the end of its cycle to destroy the stumps. Thus, soil disturbance was more frequent in this system than in the previous ones (MT I and MT II), and millet was not cultivated.
Intensive pasture	IP	The Cerrado was deforested in 1978 and rice was cultivated from 1978 to 1980. In 1981, Brachiaria brizantha cv. Marandu was planted and weed control was manually performed every 2 years under intensive management with Nelore cattle for fattening, with mean capacity of 7-9 A.U. ha-1, without animal rotation. Since 1997, every 3 years, the soil has been chemically corrected with the dose of 1,5 Mg ha-1 of dolomitic limestone, plus a fertilization with 100 kg ha-1 of single superphosphate as top-dressing. Since 2003, between March and April, 10 tons of cotton hull have been applied. Gypsum was applied broadcast in 2008, in the dose of 500 kg ha-1.

In May 2010, in each soil tillage system (environments), a 300 x 300 m central area was delimited and six soil pits were longitudinally dug, in the form of steps, for the collection of disturbed and undisturbed soil samples in the layers of 0-0.05, 0.05-0.10 and 0.10-0.20 m. Undisturbed soil samples were collected using a Kopeck sampler for the determination of microporosity and soil density (Donagema et al., 2011). In the disturbed soil samples, the following parameters were determined: particle density, for the calculation of total porosity and then macroporosity (Ma = TP - Mi); the percentage of sand, silt and clay, through the pipette method using a reciprocal shaker at 100 RPM (revolutions per minute) for 16 h to accelerate particle dispersion; contents of P and K extracted with 0.05 mol L^-1 HCl + 0.0125 mol L^-1 H₂SO₄ and Ca, Mg and Al extracted with 0.1 mol L^-1 KCl; pH in water and CaCl₂ (Donagema et al., 2011); content of total organic C (Yeomans & Bremner, 1988); content of labile organic C through oxidation with KMnO₄ (333 mmol L^-1), according to the methodology described in Blair et al. (1995) and modified by Shang & Tiessen (1997); non-labile C, equivalent to the C not oxidized by KMnO₄, determined by difference, considering the total organic C.

The total C stock was calculated for each management system, according to Eq. 1, which was then standardized with the values of soil density of the Native Cerrado, the control area, for each evaluated soil layer, according to Fernandes & Fernandes (2013), Eq. 2:

where:

S_TOC - stock of total carbon in the evaluated soil layer, Mg ha^-1;

TOC - content of total organic carbon, g kg^-1;

Ds - soil density, Mg dm^-3; and

H - thickness of the evaluated soil layer, cm.

Then, based on the quantifications of C forms in the soil, the following parameters were calculated: (i) stock of labile C (S_LC, Mg ha^-1), Eq. 3; (ii) C lability index (CLI), Eq. 4; (iii) C compartment index (CCI), Eq. 5 and (iv) C management index (CMI), according to Blair et al. (1995), Eq. 6:

All data showed normal distribution according to the Shapiro-Wilk test (P > 0.05). Thus, the analysis of variance was performed by F test (Fischer) and treatment means were compared by Tukey test (P < 0.05) for S_TOC and S_LC. Then, bivariate correlation analysis was performed using Pearson coefficient and t-test (α = 0.05), between the analyzed variables in order to define the regression variable, i.e., the independent variable(s) that best predict(s) the dependent variable, which was the soil carbon stock. For this, a multiple linear regression analysis (Best Subset Regression) was performed, which estimates all the probable regression models with one, two, three and n independent variables, identifying the model(s) with the best combinations capable of predicting the dependent variable using the program SigmaPlot Versão 12.5, Eq. 7:

where:

Y_i - response in the i-th test X_i1, X_i2; and

X_i,p-1 - values of the n predicting variables in the i-th test.

The parameters of the model are β₀, β₁, β_2, β_2p-1 and the error term is ε_i, which are independent with distribution N(0, σ²). Y_i is the dependent metric variable "carbon stock" (Mg ha^-1) and X₁, X₂, X₃,...,X_n are independent metric variables of soil chemical and physical attributes.

The criteria used to select the best multiple linear regression model were the adjusted coefficient of determination (R² Adj.) and the significance level of the beta coefficient (β), a standardized regression coefficient that allows comparing the prediction capacity of each independent variable (Hair Júnior et al., 2009).

Results and Discussion

In the layers of 0-0.05 and 0.05-0.10 m, the mean value of the stock of total organic carbon (S_TOC) between the Native Cerrado (NC) and the Intensive Pasture (IP) were equal, while a reduction was observed for the other tillage systems. In the layer of 0.10-0.20 m, the anthropized systems stocked more C than the Native Cerrado (Figure 1). It is known that the impacts of mechanical operations tend to be more pronounced in the superficial soil layer and, therefore, soil uses that prioritize the absence of disturbance can conserve more organic C in surface, as verified for the pasture. This beneficial effect of the lack of soil disturbance has been reported in other edaphoclimatic conditions. Leite et al. (2010) observed progressive increment of S_TOC over time, under no-tillage of 2, 4 and 6 years; even higher than under Cerrado native forest and under conventional tillage, in a Red Yellow Latosol.

Figure 1
Stocks of total organic carbon (S_TOC) in the layers of 0-0.05 (A), 0.05-0.10 (B) and 0.10-0.20 m (C) and labile carbon (S_LC) in the layers of 0-0.05 (D), 0.05-0.10 (E) and 0.10-0.20 m (F), under different management systems (Table 1)

The beneficial effect of the lack of soil disturbace is corroborated by other studies, which show higher conservation of the soil under pasture, no-tillage and minimum tillage, compared with the conventional tillage (Hickmann et al., 2012; Matoso et al., 2012). According to Leite et al. (2013), pasture is important for intercropping, because it increases soil fertility levels and C stocks, favoring the improvement of soil quality under Cerrado conditions. Therefore, the lower the frequency of soil disturbance and the maturity of the conservational tillage, the higher is the probability of organic C storage. Thus, the increase of total C stock in the layer of 0.10-0.20 m for the four evaluated minimum cultivation systems was possibly due to the lower soil disturbance by mechanical operations in this layer (Figure 1C). In addition, the removal of chemical (limestone and gypsum applications) and physical (subsoiling) impediments, according to Arantes et al. (2007) and Pupin et al. (2009), respectively, favors root growth in subsurface and, consequently, C accumulation.

As to the stock of labile C (S_LC), its participation in S_TOC was low. S_LC mean values in the layers of 0-0.05 and 0.05-0.10 m were higher under Native Cerrado. In the layer of 0.10-0.20 m, except for the Minimum Tillage III (MT III), which showed lower S_LC, the other tillage systems showed intermediate C stocks compared with the Cerrado. The soil disturbance in MT III was more frequent than in MT I and II, and millet was not cultivated independently; however, regardless of the evaluated management system, there were higher stocks of total organic C (Figure 1C) and labile C (Figure 1F) in the deepest layer (0.10-0.20 m), compared with the more superficial ones (0-0.05 and 0.05-0.10 m).

Therefore, the results are consistent with other studies on C stock, because the inverse of S_LC is characterized by the stock of non-labile C (S_NLC), proportionally higher than S_LC (Figure 1C, 1D and 1E). While labile C is composed of plant and animal residues in decomposition and thus an important source of labile nutrients to plants, the non-labile C is composed of organic residues in high degree of decomposition and specific density; thus, the heavy fraction is important for the sequestration of C-CO_2(g) (Blair et al., 1995; Silva & Mendonça, 2007).

Since the non-labile fraction is dependent on the continuous supply of the labile fraction, it is possible to infer about the equilibrium between these fractions promoted by a certain management, due to changes in quality and quantity of the supplied organic matter. These results can be important to rethink the current management and plan techniques capable of reducing the losses of soil organic matter. The highest values of C lability index (CLI) and C compartment index (CCI) were observed in the layer of 0.10-0.20 m (Figure 2A, 2B); therefore, among the evaluated layers, the layer of 0.10-0.20 m was the most similar to the Native Cerrado with respect to C stock. In addition, the multiplication of CLI by CCI results in the C management index (CMI) and, while an increase of 66% was observed for the Intensive Pasture (IP), 41% for Minimum Tillage I, 28% for Minimum Tillage II, there was a reduction of approximately 37% for the Minimum Tillage III. According to Blair et al. (1995), there is no ideal value for CMI, but this index provides a sensitive measurement of soil C dynamics in relation to a more stable reference system, indicating whether a certain management system is degrading or conserving soil C. Therefore, in the layers of 0-0.5 and 0.5-0.10 m, none of the management systems was able to conserve C stocks, compared with the Native Cerrado, only IP, MT I and MT II in the layer of 0.10-0.20 m.

Figure 2
Indices of carbon lability (A); carbon compartment (B) and carbon management (C) in different management systems: intensive pasture (IP), minimum tillage I (MT I); minimum tillage II (MT II) and minimum tillage III (MT III)

In the correlation of the stocks of total C (S_TOC), labile C (S_LC) and non-labile C (S_NLC) with soil chemical and physical attributes, S_TOC was positively correlated with S_LC and S_NLC (Table 2). Although S_NLC was not correlated with any variable, S_LC was correlated with most of the analyzed chemical and physical attributes (Table 2). According to Blair et al. (1995), although labile C degrades faster than non-labile C, it is restored more rapidly and only then it will be a more sensitive indicator to evaluate C dynamics. According to Silva et al. (2011), although the TOC analysis is sensitive to detect differences between soil management systems, the degree of alteration is higher in labile fractions of SOM; for these reasons, S_LC can be used as an indicator to evaluate soil tillage systems with respect to the stock of soil organic carbon.

Table 2
Correlation of the stocks of total organic carbon (S_TOC), labile carbon (S_LC) and non-labile carbon (S_NLC) with soil chemical and physical attributes

	STOC	SLC	SNLC
STOC, Mg ha-1	1
SLC, Mg ha-1	0.72*** (1)	1
SNLC, Mg ha-1	0.98***	0.55***	1
pH, H2O	0.13 ns	-0.28 ns	0.25 ns
pH, CaCl2	0.04 ns	-0.46**	0.17 ns
P, mg dm-3	-0.18 ns	-0.47**	-0.07 ns
K, cmolc dm-3	0.09 ns	-0.27 ns	0.19 ns
Ca, cmolc dm-3	-0.14 ns	-0.57**	0.01 ns
Mg, cmolc dm-3	-0.03 ns	-0.48**	0.12 ns
Al, cmolc dm-3	0.06 ns	0.28 ns	-0.02 ns
H, cmolc dm-3	-0.09 ns	-0.04 ns	-0.09 ns
SB, cmolc dm-3	-0.09 ns	-0.55**	0.06 ns
CEC, cmolc dm-3	-0.15 ns	-0.60***	0.01 ns
V (%)	-0.05 ns	-0.48**	0.09 ns
Sand, g kg-1	0.01 ns	0.29*	-0.08 ns
Silt, g kg-1	0.03 ns	-0.07 ns	0.06 ns
Clay, g kg-1	-0.02 ns	-0.30**	0.07 ns
Soil density, Mg m-3	0.06 ns	0.15 ns	0.02 ns
Macroporosity, m3 m-3	0.12 ns	0.40**	0.02 ns
Microporosity, m3 m-3	-0.10 ns	-0.47**	0.03 ns
Total porosity, m3 m-3	0.00 ns	-0.24 ns	0.07 ns

• ^(1)***
  P < 0.0001;
• ^**
  P < 0.01: Significant at 0.05 probability level by t-test;
• ^ns
  Not significant

Since S_LC was correlated with S_NLC and the latter was positively correlated with S_TOC, the former was selected as the independent variable, applying the Best-Subset Regression analysis to define the independent variable(s) that best predict(s) S_LC. Thus, it was verified that the chemical attributes were negatively correlated with S_LC and that cation exchange capacity (CEC) showed the highest Pearson coefficient. According to Hair Júnior et al. (2009), the occurrence of implicit collinearity must be avoided, because it decreases the unique variance provided by each predicting variable. Thus, CEC was selected among the chemical attributes, because it was correlated with pH, P, Ca, Mg, SB and V% (P < 0.05).

Among soil physical attributes, the data of sand, clay, macropores and micropores were the ones correlated with S_LC, but since micropores were correlated with sand, the variables clay and macropores (P < 0.05) were selected, because they showed the highest Pearson coefficients, and the S_LC was explained in almost 54% (R²) based on the multiple linear model (Table 3). The assumptions inherent to the regression analysis, i.e., linearity based on Pearson coefficient of ≈ 74% and residual independence (P > 0.05) were maintained. In addition, the statistical model was significant by F test, with intercept and coefficient different from zero and estimate standard error of at most 0.962 Mg ha^-1. Thus, it is possible to estimate S_LC as a function of the cation exchange capacity and the volume of micropores in the soil (Table 3).

Table 3
Regression between data pairs of labile carbon stock (S_LC) versus cation exchange capacity (CEC) and soil micropores (Mi)

Intercept*** y0 (1)	Coefficients***		N (1)	r (2)	R2(3)	P F Test	ESE (Mg ha-1) (4)	TRN (5)	Calibration (Mg ha-1)
	CEC	Mi							Minimum	Maximum
11.252	-0.706	-0.117	45	0.732	0.536	< 0.001	0.962	0.152	0.7041	6.7579

• ⁽¹⁾
  N - Number of data pairs used in the adjustment;
• ⁽²⁾
  r - Pearson coefficient (P < 0.0001);
• ⁽³⁾
  R² - Coefficient of determination;
• ⁽⁴⁾
  ESE - Estimate standard error;
• ⁽⁵⁾
  TRN - Test of residual normality through Kolmogorov-Smirnov with correction of Lilliefors (P > 0.05);
• ^***
  (P < 0.0001): Significant at 0.05 probability level by t-test

In the comparison between data pairs of S_LCestimated and S_LCobserved, it is possible to visualize the equivalence of S_LCestimated based on the bisector (1:1); therefore, an intermediate agreement was observed in the estimate of S_LCobserved by S_LCestimated, based on the angular coefficient, which was equal to 0.536 (Figure 3A). Thus, the agreement would only be perfect if the angular coefficient were equal to one (1), consistent with the identity line (1:1). However, given the agreement between S_LCestimated and S_LCobserved through the Bland-Altman method, which evaluates the agreement between two variables, according to Ramos et al. (2014), it was possible to verify that the bias was not different from zero and, statistically, it means a valid agreement. Thus, there is no tendency in the data around the zero value, because the expected behavior is a random distribution of the differences around the mean of the methods (Figure 3B).

Figure 3
Comparison through the bisector between the observed S_LC data and S_LC data estimated through the regression of CEC + Mi, F test (P < 0.0001), Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for residual normality with correction of Lilliefors (P = 0.8757) (A) and analysis of residues through the Bland-Altman method (B): Bias = -6.0558E-17 (P = 0.243 by t-test), standard deviation = 1.2984

Therefore, although the S_LCobserved is averagely estimated by cation exchange capacity and soil micropores, for monitoring purposes, the S_LCestimated can be useful to evaluate soil C stocks.

Conclusions

1. In the layers of 0-0.05 and 0.05-0.10 m, none of the management systems was able to conserve stocks of total carbon (S_TOC) and labile carbon (S_LC), compared with the Native Cerrado; however, in the layer of 0.10-0.20 m, these carbon stocks were conserved in the Pasture and the Minimum Tillage systems I and II.

2. Although the percentage of S_LC in the S_TOC was lower, only S_LC was correlated with soil chemical and physical attributes.

3. Based on the multiple linear regression analysis, S_LC was explained in 54% (R²) by the cation exchange capacity and soil micropores.

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Publication Dates

• Publication in this collection
  Jan 2016

History

• Accepted
  02 Nov 2015