Activity of soil microbial biomass altered by land use in the southwestern Amazon

ABSTRACT The increasing demand for food creates environmental problems, mainly due to the removal of native vegetation cover for agriculture expansion in Brazil. These changes in land use lead to changes in the soil organic matter dynamics. Microorganisms represent the most biological and physiologi...

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Main Authors: André Mancebo Mazzetto, Carlos Eduardo Pellegrino Cerri, Brigitte Josefine Feigl, Carlos Clemente Cerri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Agronômico de Campinas 2016-03-01
Series:Bragantia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0006-87052016000100079&lng=en&tlng=en