Biomass of fine roots in different land cover types at the ‘arc of deforestation’, Brazil

Tâmara Thaiz Santana Lima; Izildinha Souza Miranda; Danielle  Mitja; Mário Lopes  Silva Junior; Thierry  Desjardins; Michel  Grimaldi

Tâmara Thaiz Santana Lima Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia-UFRA https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5731-572X
Izildinha Souza Miranda Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia, Instituto Socioambiental e dos Recursos Hídricos, Av. Tancredo Neves 2501, Caixa Postal 917, 66077-570, Belém, Pará, Brasil. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2080-3404
Danielle Mitja Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, UMR 137 BIOSOL et US 140 ESPACE, Maison de la Télédétection, 500 rue JF Breton, 34093 Montpellier, Cedex 5, France. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2983-161X
Mário Lopes Silva Junior Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia, Instituto de Ciências Agrárias, Av. Tancredo Neves 2501, Caixa Postal 917, 66077-570, Belém, Pará, Brasil. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9772-1290
Thierry Desjardins Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, UMR 242, Centre IRD, France-Nord 32, av. Henri Varagnat, 93143 Bondy cedex, France. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2608-6370
Michel Grimaldi Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, UMR 242, Centre IRD, France-Nord 32, av. Henri Varagnat, 93143 Bondy cedex, France. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2994-2811

Keywords: Amazon, Family farms, Soil properties, Vegetation

Abstract

This study aims to evaluate the effect of land cover type, soil properties, and vegetation structure on fine root biomass, and examined how these factors affect diameter of fine roots. The study was conducted in communities located in the Nova Ipixuna, Parauapebas and Pacajá municipalities of Pará state. In each area, nine farms were selected; in each farm were sampled five plots, totaling 135 plots distributed into nine different types of land cover; at each plot, four soil samples were collected to quantify the fine roots, vegetation cover was inventoried, and soil was collected for physical and chemical characterization. Fine roots were separated into four different classes. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) were done for the soil and vegetation matrix and they were compared with the fine root biomass PCA through a co-inertia analysis. Variability was high for fine root biomass data. All land covers exhibited a high proportion of fine roots > 1 mm. The co-inertia analysis showed that the fine root biomass PCA share a common structure with vegetation PCA, with 37% of the variability being explained; however only 9% of the variability was explained by the soil PCA. Our results highlight the importance of roots with diameters < 2 mm for the quantification of root biomass, whereas the biomass of roots > 2 mm was critical to the differentiation among land covers.

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