The Cantareira System is one of the largest water supply systems in the world, supplying
about half of the water consumed by 22 million inhabitants in the Metropolitan Region of São …

While food and nutrition security are issues that national and international organizations are
tackling, one of the central problems often overlooked is the essential role of soils in …

Forest plays an important role in kee** water ecosystem services, such as drinking water
provision. Thus, payment for ecosystem services is an essential instrument to promote forest …

In the state of Rondônia, deforestation, and inadequate soil use and management have
intensified the water erosion process, causing degradation of agricultural land. Modeling is a …

Pastures, exposed soil and weeds correspond to 47.96% of Espírito Santo state territory,
and most of these areas present low or no economic returns, due to the advanced …

Soil is a natural resource that has been affected by human pressures beyond its renewal
capacity. For this reason, large agricultural areas that were productive have been …

Indirect methods are frequently used to determine soil erodibility (K-factor) because its direct
assessment in the field is expensive. Predictive models, however, cannot be applied …

O presente trabalho teve como objetivo determinar as perdas de solo, matéria orgânica
(MO) e nutrientes (P, K, Ca e Mg) por erosão, em área cultivada com cana-de-açúcar, cuja …

In the last decades, the use of biofuels as a mitigation measure for carbon emissions has led
to land use and land cover changes in southeastern Brazil, especially in Paulista Peripheral …

In the past decades, sugarcane production in Brazil has expanded rapidly to meet
increasing ethanol demand. The large majority of this expansion occurred in Sao Paulo …