Authorship: CASTRO, G. S. A.; CRUSCIOL, C. A. C.; CALONEGO, J. C.; ROSOLEM, C. A.

Increased soil organic matter (SOM) improves the cation exchange capacity of tropical weathered soils, and liming is required to achieve high yields in these soils. Despite a decrease in SOM in the sh... ...

Repository: BDPA     Publication year: 2015

Authorship: SPADOTTO, C. A.; MINGOTI, R.

ABSTRACT: The tropical region can be geographically defined, using latitudinal delimitation, as that part of the earth located between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, comprising 38%... ...

Repository: BDPA     Publication year: 2023

Authorship: RODRIGUES, A. F.; LATAWIEC, A. E.; REID, B. J.; SOLÓRZANO, A.; SCHULER, A. E.; LACERDA, C.; FIDALGO, E. C. C.; SCARANO, F. R.; TUBENCHLAK, F.; PENA, I.; VICENTE-VICENTE, J. L.; KORYS, K. A.; COOPER, M.; FERNANDES, N. F.; PRADO, R. B.; MAIOLI, V.; DIB, V.; TEIXEIRA, W. G.

Soil ecosystem service (SES) approaches evidence the importance of soil for human well-being, contribute to improving dialogue between science and decision-making and encourage the translation of scie... ...

Repository: BDPA     Publication year: 2021

Authorship: BERNARDI, A. C. C.; CARVALHO, M. C. S.; POLIDORO, J. C.; BENITES, V. M.

Potassium (K) fertilization is one of the most common nutrient inputs used by farmers to cultivate crops on Brazil?s highly weathered, low-fertile and acidic tropical soils. Soil K is typically classi... ...

Repository: BDPA     Publication year: 2013

Authorship: RONQUIM, C. C.

Global agricultural production will have to increase by 70% until 2050 to provide for the increasing food supply needed for a growing population, with growing revenues and a shifting, protein-based di... ...

Repository: BDPA     Publication year: 2021

Authorship: SANTOS, J. V. DOS; GORANOV, A. I.; BENTO, L. R.; OLIVEIRA, P. P. A.; PEZZOPANE, J. R. M.; BERNARDI, A. C. de C.; SÁ, I. P. DE; NOGUEIRA, A. R. de A.; MARTIN NETO, L.; HATCHER, P. G.

Tropical soils play a critical role in the global biogeochemical cycles and are essential for maintaining the Earth's carbon balance. Understanding the dynamics of dissolved organic matter (DOM) is pa... ...

Repository: BDPA     Publication year: 2024

Authorship: GIONGO, V.; GALVÃO, S. R. da S.; MENDES, A. M. S.; GAVA, C. A. T.; CUNHA, T. J. F.

The Brazilian semi-arid tropics occupies an area of 969,589 km2 that represents 11% of the national territory and the Caatinga is its most representatives Biome with an area of 844.453 km². However, a... ...

Repository: BDPA     Publication year: 2011

Authorship: VASCONCELOS, M. J. V. de; FIGUEIREDO, J. E. F.; OLIVEIRA, M. F. de; SCHAFFERT, R. E.; RAGHOTHAMA, K. G.

ABSTRACT - Phosphorus is an essential macronutrient for plant growth and development. However, phosphorus availability is low in many soils, and the plant?s ability to acquire phosphorus from the rhiz... ...

Repository: BDPA     Publication year: 2022

Authorship: HEDIN, L. O.; MCGRODDY, M.; HOULTON, B.; MORAN, E. F.; BATISTELLA, M.

Tropical forest soils often tend to be rich in nitrogen but poor in phosphorus. We have measured hydrologic nitrogen and phosphorus losses from soils across a soil fertility gradient in the central Am... ...

Repository: BDPA     Publication year: 2004

Authorship: BETTIOL, W.; GHINI, R.

A long-term assay was conducted to evaluate the environmental impacts of agriculture use of sewage sludge on a tropical soil. This paper describes and discusses the results obtained by applying a inte... ...

Repository: BDPA     Publication year: 2011