Tensile strength, friability and organic carbon in an oxisol under a crop-livestock system Resistência tênsil, friabilidade e carbono orgânico em um latossolo vermelho distroférrico sob integração lavoura-pacuária

The crop-livestock system can promote soil compaction in surface layers, mainly due to animal trampling. However, plants and their root growth, in interaction with animal trampling, can decrease the deleterious changes in soil structure caused by this system. Up to the present time, the physical soi...

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Main Authors: Rachel Muylaert Locks Guimarães, Cássio Antonio Tormena, Sérgio José Alves, Jonez Fidalski, Éverton Blainski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2009-08-01
Series:Scientia Agricola
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90162009000400011