[PDF] Top 20 Biological Soil Properties in Integrated Crop-Livestock-Forest Systems

... Brazilian livestock-raising scenario, degradation of pasture areas, presently comprising about 70 million hectares in the midwestern and northern regions of Brazil, is one of the greatest problems (Embrapa, ... See full document

... efficient soil cover. However, studies on its use as a cover crop are ...as soil coverage (Elfstrand et ...root systems and a high biomass production, the low C/N ratio of the tissues of ... See full document

... latter in order to maintain soil quality and assure the establishment of subsequent crops (CARVALHO et ...heights in a mixture of bristle oat and annual ryegrass grown following a soybean ... See full document

... with Crop-Livestock Integration (CLI) or with grain production in winter, and the chemical, physical and biological attributes of the ...sites in Santa Catarina to measure economic ... See full document

... production systems that include the production of mulch for no- tillage farming and structural improvement of the soil can be considered key measures for agricultural activity in the Cerrado region ... See full document

... especially in the 2011/2012 crop year. In intercropped crops, there is an increase in plant density and leaf area, which results in increased evapotranspiration and water demand, ... See full document

... The crop rotation systems in crop-livestock integration affected soil density, macroporosity and total porosity, mainly from the surface to a depth of ...m. In system S2, ... See full document

... the integrated systems of agricultural production in the no-tillage system are a viable practice for the introduction of agricultural production, there is little information about the effects of the ... See full document

... Among integrated systems, animal breed associated to grain production areas, called crop-livestock integration has been widely ...the soil structure, mainly in its superficial ... See full document

... no-till systems in Cerrado environments is the low quantity and rapid decomposition of straw left on the soil surface between fall and spring, due to water deficit and high ...temperatures. In ... See full document

... the soil structural quality in relation to the NF, and the most noticeable effects were in the HG (Table 2), differing from the results found by Giarola et ...increase in Sq due to the ... See full document

... compacted soil layers (LIMA et ...cultivated in Brazil) because of both its nutritional value and its high stress resistance (ARROYAVE et ...into integrated production systems in ... See full document

... occur in ecosystems and are essential factors in ecosystem dynamics (Gongalsky et ...alter soil physical (Mataix-Solera et ...and biological properties (Myers and Harms, 2011; Gongalsky ... See full document

... uses, in the integrated crop-livestock-forestry (ICLF) production system, influence the soil properties in different ...physical properties of a Red Latosol ... See full document

... increase in the tree height leads to a larger shaded area between the tree rows, but this effect seems to be less important than competition for water to explain the soybean yield losses caused by the eucalyptus ... See full document

... cycled in the soil ...availability in agroforestry ...with soil carbon ...increases soil acidity and resists changes in pH and other physicochemical ... See full document

... The results were analyzed for normality and homogeneity of the data using Lilliefors test and Cochran test, respectively. The data of TOC, TN, ECOT, and ENT as well as that of soil physical attributes were ... See full document

... is crop residue management since all the straw is left on the soil, creating favorable conditions for the proliferation and survival of necrotrophic pathogens in crop debris, as many depend on ... See full document

... management systems in the savanna area in the state of ...developed in Uruçuí southwest of the state of Piauí. Three systems of soil management were studied: an area under ... See full document

... where livestock needs to be integrated with crops, that is, where traditional grain cropping is adopted without livestock exploration (Anghinoni et ...summer crop performance are not clearly ... See full document