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Impacted areas by iron mining may face challenges in the management of phosphate fertilization and reduced efficiency of rehabilitation practices, thus extending the time required for the rehabilitation of these areas. The objective of this study was to evaluate phosphorus (P) lability in soils of native forest and ferriferous canga areas (savanna vegetation above ironstone outcrops covering iron ore deposits) and in iron mine waste piles undergoing rehabilitation. Benches of the analysed waste pile differ in age of rehabilitation: as the initial rehabilitation stage (INI), we consider benches with fewer than 3 years of rehabilitation; the intermediate stage (INT) were benches with up to 5 years of rehabilitation; and the advanced rehabilitation stage (ADV) corresponds to benches with more than 8 years of rehabilitation activities. Organic and inorganic P fractions were analysed in these areas by chemical fractionation and were classified according to the degree of soil lability. The results show that in the canga environment, there was a predominance of inorganic fractions of moderate lability and moderate stability, with a strong dependency of the soil organic matter (SOM) on the P fractions, whereas there was a greater participation of the moderately labile organic fractions in the forest than in the canga. On the other hand, in the rehabilitation areas, there was an increase in the labile organic and inorganic fractions as the rehabilitation process advanced. The distribution of P in areas undergoing rehabilitation indicates that there is a tendency for P levels to resemble those of native environments, such as the forests.
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Guedes, R.S., Ramos, S.J., Gastauer, M. et al. Phosphorus lability increases with the rehabilitation advance of iron mine land in the eastern Amazon. Environ Monit Assess 192, 390 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-020-08365-4
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