Indicadores de qualidade do solo em sistemas agroflorestais

Abstract

The utilization of agroforestry systems to enable food production possible, providing improvement in the aspects that deal with the conservation of natural resources is nowadays considered a possible and effective alternative to guarantee the sustainability of the environmental, economic and social aspects. Therefore, it objectified to evaluate physical, chemical and microbiological attributes in different agroforestry management systems compared to other production systems. The assignment has been done in the property Sitio da Mata, situated in the municipality of Amambai, MS. Two distinct agro forestry systems were evaluated, being described as SAF A and SAF B, compared to a crop area, a silvicultural system with exploration of mate herb (Herbal) and a yardstick area of natural vegetation. The design was entirely randomized, being the treatments represented by the five systems and with five repetitions. The chemical attribute evaluated was organic matter. The physical attributes identified were soil density, macroporosity, microporosity, total volume of pores (TVP) and texture. The microbiological attributes studied were microbial biomass carbon (MBC), microbial activity (C-CO²) organic carbon, microbial and metabolic quotient (qCO²). Among the evaluated systems, SAF A was the one which presented the closest indices compared to the native vegetation, which implies the claim that the diversity of species as well as the most clayey type of soil provided better results in this system. The quickness of answer that some species such as green manure (dwarf pigeon pea, crotalaria spectabilis) and grasses, like the Napier grass (Pennisetum purpureum Schum.) have in the improvement of the chemical, physical and biological soil conditions, may explain some relations observed in the SAF A and with less intensity in the SAF B and herbal. The crop area was indicated as the most affected environment in the evaluated conditions. It was possible to indentify that the agroforestry systems are conservational systems from the soil quality perspective.