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Mineralogical changes caused by grape production in a regosol from subtropical Brazilian climate

  • SOILS, SEC 2 • GLOBAL CHANGE, ENVIRON RISK ASSESS, SUSTAINABLE LAND USE • RESEARCH ARTICLE
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Abstract

Purpose

Inadequate soil use and management practices promote commonly negative impacts on the soil constituents and their properties, with consequences to ecosystems. As the soil mineralogy can be permanently altered due to soil use, this approach can be used as a tool to monitor the anthropogenic pressure. The objective of the present study was to assess the mineralogical alterations of a Brazilian regosol used for grape production for 40 years in comparison with a soil under natural vegetation (forest), aiming to discuss anthropogenic pressure on soils.

Material and methods

Soil samples were collected at depths of 0–0.20 and 0.20–0.40 m from vineyard production and natural vegetation sites. Physical and chemical parameters were analysed by classic approaches. Mineralogical analyses were carried out on <2 mm, silt and clay fractions. Clay minerals were estimated by the relative percentage of peak surface area of the X-ray patterns.

Results and discussion

Grape production reduced the organic matter content by 28 % and the clay content by 23 % resulting in a decreasing cation exchange capacity. A similar clay fraction was observed in both soils, containing kaolinite, illite/mica and vermiculite with hydroxy-Al polymers interlayered. Neither gibbsite nor chlorite was found. However, in the soil under native vegetation, the proportion of illite (79 %) was higher than vermiculite (21 %). Whereas, in the soil used for grape production during 40 years, the formation of vermiculite was promoted.

Conclusions

Grape production alters the proportions of soil constituents of the regosol, reducing clay fraction and organic matter contents, as well as promoting changes in the soil clay minerals with the formation of vermiculite to the detriment of illite, which suggests weathering acceleration and susceptibility to anthropogenic pressure.

Recommendations and perspectives

Ecosystems in tropical and subtropical climates can be more easily and permanently altered due to anthropogenic pressure, mainly as a consequence of a great magnitude of phenomena such as temperature amplitude and rainfall that occurs in these regions. This is more worrying when soils are located on steep grades with a high anthropogenic pressure, like regosols in Southern Brazil. Thus, this study suggests that changes in soil mineralogy can be used as an important tool to assess anthropogenic pressure in ecosystems and that soil quality maintenance should be a priority in sensible landscapes to maintain the ecosystem quality.

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Acknowledgments

The authors thank A.C. Copetti, V. Scanagatta, A. Mussnich, João T.D. Oliveira and Laboratory of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (LMMM-UFSM) for assistance in this study. E.C. Bortoluzzi and D.S. Rheinheimer thank the CNPq for fellowships.

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  1. Faculty of Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine, University of Passo Fundo, 99001-970, Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

    Edson Campanhola Bortoluzzi

  2. Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio Grande do Sul, 95700-000, Bento Gonçalves, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

    Diovane Freire Moterle

  3. Federal University of Santa Maria, 97105-900, Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

    Danilo dos Santos Rheinheimer & Carlos Alberto Casali

  4. Embrapa, 95700-000, Bento Gonçalves, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

    George W. Melo

  5. Federal University of Santa Catarina, 88034-000, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil

    Gustavo Brunetto

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Bortoluzzi, E.C., Moterle, D.F., dos Santos Rheinheimer, D. et al. Mineralogical changes caused by grape production in a regosol from subtropical Brazilian climate. J Soils Sediments 12, 854–862 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11368-012-0509-x

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