Variability and spatial correlation of aggregates and organic carbon in indian dark earth in Apuí region, AM
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https://doi.org/10.14393/BJ-v34n5a2018-39414Keywords:
Soil aggregation, Geostatistics, Cross variogramAbstract
Having in mind the importance of knowing the variability and spatial correlation of soil properties in Indian Dark Earth (IDE), we evaluated in this study the variability and the spatial correlation of aggregates and carbon in an Ultisol under coffee cultivation in southern Amazonas. It was established a 48 x 88 m sampling grid spaced 06 x 08 m, totalling 88 sampling points. Then soil samples were collected at: 0.0-0.05, 0.05-0.10, and 0.10-0.20 m layers. The spatial variability of the Mean Weighted Diameter (MWD) attributes, aggregates > 2 mm, < 2 mm, bulk density (BD) and organic carbon (OC) was analyzed by adjusting the simple semivariograms, while spatial correlations of the OC with aggregates and BD were analyzed by cross-semivariogram. We could conclude that there was spatial dependence in the variables, wherein the largest ones were observed at 0.0-0.05 m, except for Mean Weighted Diameter (MWD) and aggregates greater than 2.00 mm with larger range of values in depth from 0.05-0.10 and 0.10-0.20 m. The mean weight diameter and aggregate class attributes greater than 2.00 mm had negative spatial correlation with organic carbon at 0.0-0.05 m, while the smaller aggregates than 2.00 mm classes and bulk density correlated positively with organic carbon at 0.0-0.05 m and 0.10-0.20 m.
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Copyright (c) 2018 Romario Pimenta Gomes, Milton Cesar Costa Campos, Wildson Benedito Mendes Brito, Jose Mauricio Cunha, Aleksander Westphal Muniz, Laercio Santos Silva, Edicarlos Damacena Souza, Ivanildo Amorim Oliveira, Ludmila Freitas
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